A fantastic day with my Guardian Daddy

Another week has gone in a flash and Spain now feels like it was an age ago. However, Tom has been a delight - well behaved, fun, walking without protest and eating well (on some days anyway).

We went to Hoo Farm twice this week (open all week as it is half term) ,he walked most of the way round, no sit down protests, no eating stones - we may have turned a corner.

He had a good time at nursery, he's back in his old room again and happy about it. Chris (his Key Worker) started getting all reflective on me. Tom was his first charge so quite attached to him - he was saying that Tom will be gone before he knows it - apparently they go up to the next room a month before their 2nd birthday, so he only has 2 months left. How did that happen, suddenly he has gone from one of the youngest to one of the oldest. I will be really sorry for him to leave his room - all the staff are brilliant - very happy and chatty and Chris makes me laugh so much (although I'm not sure he knows it!).

I only had one cake to do this week - but it was lots of fun, a Halloween Cake for a boyfriend who has his birthday on Halloween. Really enjoyed making the various decorations, the bats on springs were quite challenging, but got there in the end and the client seemed happy.

Spent most of Thursday baby sitting - looked after Hannah and Becca at 53 for the morning, had the afternoon 'off' and then baby sat for Oliver for the night for Rachel and Errol (had a very useful evening, deleting over 1GB of redundant and duplicate files from the computer)

Saturday Tom and I were on our own for most of the day (hence the second visit to Hoo Farm), but today we drove to Gloucester to meet with Martin. Vanessa and the kids are already in Oz, Martin is flying out at the beginning of December so we demanded we saw him before he left. We had a lovely time, luckily Mum and Dad had visited earlier this year and said that the dock area was worth a visit, so we hunted it out. Found a good outlet centre (I bought some new cutters for my cakes - you can never have enough), had lunch at Pizza Express (Tom behaved impeccably and seemed to take a shine to everything Matt ordered including the chicken on his pizza - he refuses to eat meat at home, so Matt ended up with a vegetarian pizza!) We then walked round the dock area and visited the cathedral (very nice - very big, lovely cloisters and lots of strange sculptures). Had a really good day, we are very sad to say goodbye to Martin, but looking forward to seeing him next in Oz. If you are reading this Martin - keep in touch - we will be expecting lots of skype calls and Facebook updates.

As you can see, Tom enjoyed spending the day with his Guardian parent. We think he is lucky to have such a wonderful person to visit in Australia.