Lockdown 2020 and on

 I have moved on from Covid to Bronchitis! I have a lovely and very productive cough which is now exhausting me even more than normal. We got the latest update from KCC re Mikey's next school yesterday. As I sort of expected thay changed nothing at all; but I also got an e-mail from Lenham advising me to not lose hope as they are now working through the kids who Mikey is part of and will be in touch if a place comes up. So now it is just a case of waiting again while all the Grammar appeals are got through in Maidstone and Ashford. Part of me is still tempted to get him into another Maidstone school to be honest, but then he would be so far from any friends he makes. I am just terrified of what could happen to him and how going to the North will change him from the lovely boy I know he is. I guess it is also linked to how much I hate living over here. I'm a west Kent girl, not East. I have never felt settled and at home here, but I have no idea where I would feel that now; mayb

 Mikey is now safely back at school, I was going to say happily - but that would be a lie!! We finally got his homework done, or at least finished! The last bit was a long way from what was actually requested, but knowing Mikey he will talk his way out of it! Yesterday we celebrated the end of the holidays with a trip to Greatstone (or maybe Littlestone) to have ice cream! Mikey wore more that he ate I think and we both ended up with ice cream headaches!! But it was rather nice ice cream and mine was studded and coated with mint aero - as only vanilla ice cream was available that made up for not getting mint choc chip! As I'm still having frequent dizzy spells I let Andy do the driving and dealt with all the questions from the back seat...and he was full of them as well as listing all the shops in every place we drove through!! I will admit to asking him to stop that! Sleep is still something I am struggling with. I can fall asleep easily but staying asleep is a completely differen