7th September, 2006

I am sure there will be a stream of interesting things arising from the Forum next week, but till then I thought it would suffice to tell you that Hen is back on track. We had been mildly encouraged during the holidays by signs that she was being a bit more organised and she spent the last two days of the holidays organising her room and preparing for her return to school. She flattered to deceive though. Sophie took her back to Rugby on Tuesday and told me it was just astonishing how many bags and suitcases she had. Noone else, it seemed to Sophie watching the flow of pupils and parents in the school car park, came anywhere close to having the amount of stuff Hen was offloading. This only made it harder to bear when Hen rang home that evening to inform us she had forgotten her school uniform. I mean, who forgets their school uniform?? It's ridiculous.