Walthamstow

We arrived in Walthamstow in good time to be able to pick the children up from Nursery and School. Emily managed to get off to Heathrow in early evening to be joined by Stewart after he had finished Newsnight. They were travelling to Provence to attend the wedding of a good friend they had met in Johannesburg.
We had a great weekend with the children, taking them to the park and to the shops and the library. On Saturday there was a Jumble Trail on Stewart's street. Mary took a shine to a cuddly monkey which she has called "A hA" (as in the noise a monkey makes!!!) and now travels with her everywhere.
On Sunday we took the car out to Epping Forest where we were enjoying a picnic until a loose dog stole and ate Karen's lunch. The dog owner did not seem to appreciate why it was an unacceptable thing to occur- they could not control their dog because they had not brought the lead and seemed surprised that we could not see that that was acceptable.
On Monday Stewart took the children to nursery and Magnus to school. It was the school sports day so we went along for the morning to watch. We were most impressed with the attitude of the children, their behaviour and the respect shown to all in the school. Magnus threw himself whole-heartedly into every activity and clearly enjoyed it all.Read more