This week brought parents' evenings. Overall they were fine, although a couple of parents were the very stereotypical pushy-private-school kind who I was just glad to get rid of. Well, at least it's over. On Monday and Tuesday I was at school for 12.5 hours each day.... by Wednesday I had already worked a 'normal' person's 36 hour working week.... so the total this week came to just under 60 hours. Ouch. No wonder I have a head ache.

Only 3 days next week and then a glorious 3 weeks off. I'm going up to York with my 2 Year 5 colleagues the day after we break up for a recce on the place we're visiting on the way to our residential trip in April. We sorted room allocations today... crickey, I can't believe it's so close.

I'm looking forward to spending time over Easter finalising things for our summer travelling around Canada. The flights are booked, Toby's bunny-hotel is booked (and gorgeous) as is our travel insurance. Next on the list are coach tickets to and from Heathrow (and now we live a lot further from the airport than we used to!), accommodation in Vancouver, Banff area and Jasper (as they're the busiest so most likely to book up) then Calgary, Ottawa, Victoria and the other 2 or 3 places in BC Interior. I am incredibly excited.... in exactly 17 weeks we will just have landed in Ottawa for the first leg of the trip....