It's off to school we go

We are taking Costandina back down to Winchester this afternoon to start back at Uni. (It's about an hour and half with a fair run) She is excited about meeting her friends and in particular catching up with Sam again after being away for nearly 8 weeks!

I am not sure however that we are feeling the same. After 6 weeks or so with all of us living on top of each other on our trip it will be strange going back to our new slim down version of the family again. Family lite so to speak. I am sure it is the same for every family when kids go off to Uni. The empty house. The loneliness. Wondering if you argued with them all the time and they didnt talk to you much, why do you miss them now. A slight exageration in our case but the sentiment is the same.

Anyway here is a picture of the new Student Uni building at Winchester which is pretty swish i have to say and a wonderful contrast to lovely patinated medieval brickwork that abounds elsewhere in the city

The really sad thing though is that we have yet to visit the Cathedral at Winchester which as you can see is pretty spectacular and dates from about a million years ago. Winchester is one of the best preserved medieval towns in Britain. It will be too dark to visit today but we will need to make time soon on one of our trips.

I guess we will have to keep ourselves busy sorting out our lives and especially our respective jobs. Bashing them into shape so that they dont control and dominate our lives. Oh yeh and the small matter of attending to Michael's every whim. As his self appointed lackies we apparently still need training and I guess that's what he will be focussing on in the coming weeks.

Who knows we may even have some time in between to play with him