moving

I write this as I am surrounded by big brown boxes. Removal men are traipsing up and down my flat and all my worldly possessions are being carried into a huge van.

We've been here 7 years, had our formative marriage years here and had two little babies here - strange to think it now moves on, to someone else.

We're moving to a lovely house just around the corner. A little house for me, my family and my worldly possessions, if they get there after being in a van all night long ....

childcare

last week I dropped my son off with my new child minder Sharon. It was wierd I didn't feel as bad as I had when dropping off Maya for the first time and she was almost a year old. He's only 4 months! I'm so happy and relieved to be back at work , am I strange? am I a bad mum?

A new baby and Green Street

I'm restarting to write this. I have been very busy recently as little Ben was born in August. He's great , cute and giggly and just gorgeous. I've been really enjoying having a new born the second time around.
I started work again last week and discovered the most amazing place in London. We're creating an audio walk for Newham council and we walked around this very interesting, diverse area last week. One area we walked was Green Street, "The Bond Street" of East London. I'd never been here before but its well worth a visit. Its full of Asian superstores, fashion and shoe shops as well as a plethora of speicalist restaurants catering for the local community. There's also some fantastic architecture and at the end of the walk we took you get to look around West Ham's football Ground "Boleyn Stadium" which is very impressive itself. Its called the Boleyn grounds because there used to be a supposed castle here which was either owned by Anne Boleyn's family or she stayed there. We also went to a fascinating book shop next to the West Ham grounds which was full of books on the East End of London, football and also had a great childrens section.