Goodness me, I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 months since I had a minute to add to this blog. Since our furniture arrived, we have been busy unpacking, making insurance claims and re-arranging. It does’t sound like much but it is. Consider this - Rex is out the door at 6.20am, and home around 4.30pm. It is dark at 5pm. Jay is in school or 2 x 3hr morning / afternoon. Sounds like a lot of time, but really it isn’t. I still have to cook and clean and run the house in-between unpacking. Anyway, with out too much ado it has now been completed. We are now fine tuning and doing the fun stuff, like putting rugs on the floor and hanging the last of the pictures and putting in lamps and lights which will be run off timers so that when we travel there will be lights on.

Early in November we enjoyed a most wonderful 6 night holiday in Paris France, where we visited with Harriet and George Sellnau. I will write about that in a separate blog with pictures later.

We have also spent 3 nights in Bahrain, because Rex is on a Moderator for a conference in Bahrain next May. Which means Jay and Mummy get to tag along. In November, the meeting coincided with a Chaine dinner so we had three nights away and the dinner was wonderful. i have scanned the menu and will attempt to add it in later. I’m still learning how to work this application.

It rained last week and I mean about 2 inches or more, just poured and was really cold about 50F. As luck would have it, the guy who washes the car, snapped the windscreen wiper blade off and on Saturday morning when it was foggy and pouring cats and dogs, I had to drive Rex to a driving education class at 7.15am and bring Jay home for breakfast and then drive him to school at 8am, after which i headed straight to the AAA to have it glued back into place. 3 days later, driving a friend, again in cold pouring day, the wretched thing splinted off and I had to drive back to get it in, yes pouring rain. It was re-glued later in the day. We are now sourcing a part from BMW before the next deluge. I can’t just drive to the BMW dealership and pick one up - it doesn’t work that way. Which is another reason it’s taken so long to unpack. I can’t run to the hardware store and get picture hooks or anything, I really can’t go anywhere without planning like a military mission and I only have 2 hours in the morning to achieve anything because it takes 15-20 mins to drive anywhere, shops open between 9.30am and 10.00am and I have to be back on camp by 10.45am at the latest in order to collect Jay from school. In the afternoons I have 3 hours up my sleeve, but again, military precision, because of the prayer schedule and some of the shops close for the afternoons and don’t re-open until 4.00pm - 5.00pm and then shut around 10pm - midnight.

Speaking of military operations, I need to sign off and run to the Commissary and start some cooking before the boys wake up. Dinner party on Sunday night for 3 colleagues of Rex’s I need to start cooking now. I also have 6 friends coming over for coffee at 8.20am on Monday, ( your Wednesday - I still find this Thurs/Fri weekend deal hard to adjust to!). Yes the morning after the dinner party and the day our street will be dug up for resealing over the next 2 weeks - wonderful!