Author: ianboichat
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Little Flower Girl
We were attending our friends wedding (although I was also there in a professional capacity) and Maddie was an unofficial flower girl. She had her hair and make up done by the make up girl and looker really pretty. She hadn’t been to a wedding since ours! Maddie made friends with the brides niece Zara…
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Abbots Hill Sports Day
Another year, another sports day although this year without the Olympics theme of last year. Same events though and despite a good performance from Maddie (well I would say that) her clan finished last. Still Maddie did win her heat of the sack race and with a 2nd and 3rd in the running and skipping…
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Legoland
So having visited Legoland in Denmark previously and in Windsor last year finally this year Maddie was old enough (6) to earn her Lego driving licence. It was also the day that we discovered the value of Q-bots which enable you to jump the queues for all the rides, not cheap but so worth it!…
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Holiday of a lifetime!
If there’s one place in the world where extravagance and money to burn seems to be everywhere it’s Dubai. As an exercise in forward planning for tourism to replace oil it’s seems very insightful. One things for sure we are never going to forget some of the things we have seen and experienced. A single…
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The Lion King
One of the problems of private schools is the stupid amounts of holidays the children get – 20 weeks a year off! Thankfully there are a myriad of clubs, workshops and camps that have sprung up to amuse the kids and let us adults carry on working! (Not to mention playdates with classmates etc) One…
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A grade student
Maddie just got her latest school report and we are delighted with it. A great improvement all round with A’s (achievement) and 1’s (effort) scattered liberally throughout. She has been putting in lots of extra work off her own back as she is determined to get a progress award at prize giving. In addition she…
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Facetime!
Away on a skiing trip I was reminded that it seems like only yesterday I used to go and get phone cards to call home and now with the wonders of modern technology we have video calling! At home it just seems like a novelty but when you are separated from loved ones abroad it…
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And, and, and…
Today we all actually managed to sit down for lunch as a family. Maddie then proceeded to have the worst case of verbal diarrhoea I have ever seen. Without pausing for breath (or to eat – not that she ever eats much anyway) she kept talking solidly for about 20 mins. It started off as…
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We can fix you
Hopefully we won’t be seeing too many more of these X-rays but thought as an update to the last entry it was worth adding them. The funniest thing was that I asked the consultant to email them to me and he said that whilst he could, he wasn’t allowed to, which seems odd – then…
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Her first break…
So yesterday I happened to be away on business all day, far from home and of all days Maddie happens to pick this day to trip over and break her little finger. Luckily Mette was able to pick her up from school and take her to A&E where by all accounts they were brilliant. She…