my second long overdue post

A little over a year and I'm back. Jake continues to play football and Freya to prance and twirl. Jake has outgrown his trainers. So what's new?
Well, my son and daughter are now 9 and 6 and are both tall and gorgeous. I am very proud of them. They're both doing very well at school. Jake is so enormous now and growing up so fast we're already starting to think about secondary schools for him. Yesterday I went to Fairfield High for a snoop. I tagged along with Jake's class on a trip there to do a DT project. We were only there for an hour so I couldn't get much of an impression of the place. The lunch break had just finished so the school didn't really look its best - rubbish and dropped food everywhere. But the building is impressive and there's lots of land and playing fields around it. The DT teacher seemed great ... But the kids looked so HUGE! Lots of teenage boys wearing baseball caps sauntering along. It's funny to think that Jake will one day be that big, please God. I can imagine him there. It's a big school with a mixed bag of pupils. I can really imagine Freya there too, in a big gaggle of giggling girlies. From what I hear it's everything we'd want from a secondary school ... so I'll have to go on a few more visits there I think.
I've taken on an allotment. I went up there today to meet my friend Georgia, whose allotment it is, only to find out she's moving to Cornwall. :-( Really sorry that she's going, she is such a nice person. And she has great kids and they match my kids in age ... what a bummer. Oh well, people come, people go. Who knows, Rich and I might "go" somewhere ... Australia?! You never know ...