I think tomorrow marks us being in lockdown for 6 weeks, maybe 5, I’m not too sure now. I know we went into lockdown a week before the UK did. All the days and weeks are rolling into one now. This weeks ordinary moments photo are flowers picked from the garden by Lucas x   Read more…

Lucas was sent various exercises and challenges to do from school. There was a quiz on previous olympics and he had to draw key workers still working. We think this is instead of a sports day at school and he has been told he will get a certificate once back x   Read more…

Whilst we can only get out each day for 1 hour of exercise and within a 1km distance of our house, we are very lucky to see such beautiful countryside x       Read more…

Lucas did a FaceTime with his friend on Monday and whilst they had a chat, they also drew each other. This photo shows Lucas in the phone and his friend drawing him       Read more…

Lucas received some roller skates in the post this week from his Grandparents. He hasn’t quite got the hang of skating yet but is enjoying trying x       Read more…

This weeks ordinary moments are something no one could have thought of this time last year. We’ve had our first full week of school closures here in France and all but essential shops (food and pharmacy) are closed. If we go out, we have to fill a form out to show police, should we be […] Read more…

On Monday, we returned from the UK. We went for a week during half term to visit family. Lucas turned 5 on the 15th Feb but his school didn’t break up until the 21st and he wanted to see family and friends for his birthday so we did a belated birthday trip for him. It […] Read more…

Last Saturday was Lucas’ birthday. He had asked for a new Xbox remote for his present so he can play 2 player with D. We asked him if he wanted to go anywhere or out for lunch but he wanted to stay in so we bought lots of treats from the shop for the weekend, […] Read more…

Yesterday we spent the morning doing some jobs together around the house. In France, where we live anyway, you don’t have big bins at your house that are collected like in the UK. There are various industrial sized bins in central places like at the end of a hamlet in particularly rural places or in […] Read more…

In Lucas’ L’Ecole Maternelle, they have a reward system throughout the week. In each of their books, they have a rocket for each week and the teacher will put a coloured dot in each section according to how they behaved that day. There are 4 colours, red, yellow, green and blue. Red being the worse […] Read more…