Rachel, Owen and Kathryn

Katy has not really enjoyed going to "nursery nursery" even just one morning a week this year, as she's been keen to leave all that behind and be a proper school girl. We had to give up on Little Petals after just a few weeks, and Victoria Road was barely tolerated (and That Accident happened there). But they did manage to achieve something really positive in entering Katy for a poetry writing "competition" ... and her little piece - crafted by slotting her own few words into a rhyme template - was actually "selected" for publication. Vanity publishing for sure, but parents are suckers for this kind of thing.

Katy has enjoyed mixing with super kids of all ages at the after-school club once a week.

Despite a dressing the size of a boxing glove, the intrepid daughter and mother team took on central London undeterred. Sealife Aquarium, river trip, revamped Goethe-Institut library (for old times' sake), the Science Museum, and even paddling at the Victoria & Albert Museum!

At the beginning of the Easter holidays Katy had a nasty accident at holiday club in which she fractured her thumb and lost the nail. She had to have surgery but came through it well, devouring 2 packets of cheese sandwiches once she had recovered from the effects of the anaesthetic.