Soccer School and Meet up with Lindsey & Josh

Lindsey and Josh

Tom spent the first week of the holidays on the Community field playing football - being coached by Morecambe FC.  He started off pretty bad (even picking the ball up during play????!) but finished up a bit more accomplished.  It was 5 hours of football a day so he was pretty exhausted by the end of the week.

On Wednesday I headed down to St Alban's to meet up with Lindsey who was over from Australia, so I finally met her baby Josh who is 15 months.  What a good baby he is: happy, sleeps really really well (we all shared a hotel room - he hardly made a sound when asleep and he slept through) AND he ATE unlike any other baby I have known.  He ate an adult portion of food when in a restaurant and a full round of supermarket sandwiches in the evening.

Very happy baby

Lindsey and I nattered all day and evening, whispering in the hotel room when Josh was asleep - it wasn't ideal, but it worked. We, of course, clicked straight back into our friendship.  Lindsey had found it strange coming back - as no one other than us and her close family had visited her in Oz, and her accent is as English as it was when she left, so she felt almost like Oz was a dream.  All her friends were living in the same place, with the same job etc etc, just a little older (it has been 3 years).    She said she felt like wearing a T-shirt saying "I live in Australia!" I can understand where she was coming from - I had similar feelings on my returns from travels.

On Thursday we headed to a beautiful park by the cathedral for a walk and lunch.  Once again Josh was very happy, bonnie baby who ate up his lunch like a pro.  Time went way too fast, before we knew it it was time to say goodbye and head back home.  Hopefully we will meet again in Oz before too long.