Happy In Our New Home

I'm not doing so well with keeping the blog up-to-date this year, suppose it's a good thing in some ways as it means we're busy!

On Monday and Tuesday of last week (8th and 9th) we moved in to our own house. We've been looking for somewhere for over a year but it has been very difficult to find an area that we like and that has everything we want. Eventually we found a lovely village in the north of Nottinghamshire close to Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park. It has a lovely little school (with the high school just in the next village), a couple of pubs, a butcher and grocery shop, lots of green area to explore and no main road cutting through it. Perfect!

The house is just the right size, the kids have space to have toys in their rooms and we now have a spare room to accommodate our guests (bookings now being taken . . .). The decor is a little 1970's - not quite sure how since the house wasn't built until the 80's but I'm sure we'll correct that in time (donations also being taken ;)).

So far we're loving everything about the move. Most days the kids get out on their bikes in front of the house and the neighbours seem really friendly. Mary the post lady called by to say hi and spent ages showing the kids all the parcels in her van - Toby was desperate to jump on in but the allure faded when he knew the packages weren't for him.

Yesterday we went for a walk around the village and made some new friends; the church warden came racing out in her socks to say hello and Toby spent ages with an Alsatian that had a nose bigger than his head. We watched the gliders take off from the far side of the village and at the end of the village, much to Toby's delight, watched trains go by.

Beth started her new nursery yesterday afternoon and seemed to enjoy herself despite being insistent that she wasn't going to like it. She has made a couple of new friends though none to rival Maisey who was her best friend at the old nursery. I'm sure soon enough she'll settle right in and become obsessed with a new best friend.

Just thought I'd pop this in at the bottom. It's from the last snowfall in February. The photographer for the local paper lived round the corner from us at the old place and she took a few snaps of all the kids on the estate. The picture of Beth made the cut. :)