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Oops. O.K, so I'm not exactly a prolific blogger at the moment. But hey ...

There's been so much real life stuff going on. We've (almost) sold this house and (almost) found another. The France house is (almost) on the way to being ready. We've (almost) got the worst of the packing done - certainly all the sorting and throwing stuff out bits done. A big Freecycle posting is coming up!

The new house is smaller, and on a main road, but with a much nicer garden (bigger, private, green and leafy), which makes up for it. Also we've got far too much furniture for the new house so we're having to send some to France, nicely solving the riddle of how we're going to afford to furnish two houses. In a way we'll have two half houses. The garden in the new U.K house is big enough for a studio room, so Big M and the girls will be able to be as creatively messy as they need to, without having to clear it up every suppertime. Our workroom will be the smallest of the 3 (small!) bedrooms but there'll be enough room downstairs for all the books (O.K, *half* the books) and so all we need in the workroom is a desk and computer. We can go and have a coffee in the garden when it gets claustrophobic.

The girls don't seem to be worried about this potential half/half lifestyle. We've all done a lot of talking about what can go in which house, and what we can do where. Instead of having two sets of stuff we're going to try and do different things in each house, instead. The France house has a great 'field-like' garden for kicking balls, and running, and swinging and bouncing. The U.K garden is better for twiddling about with plants and flowers and stuff. The studio room in the U.K will be good for painting, and crafts, while the big barn in France will be great for building, and bashing, and hammering, and sculpting. The downstairs of the U.K house has more space than upstairs, so we'll be well set up for cooking, and eating, and doing stuff by the fire. The France house has no sitting room but the bedroom has enough space for our big screen and projector, so we'll move our dvds over there, and listen to story cds in the U.K.

Sounds like a plan? ... we'll see.