Rentrée Countdown – Final Instalment

Nearly there!
R (rentrée day) minus 5: bedtime. It’s time to start getting the kids to bed at a slightly more sensible hour. We’ve slipped a lot this month. Rors isn’t going to bed till gone 9, and not getting up till twelve hours later. That won’t do come Monday! We have to be out of [...]

Rentrée Countdown Continued

Rentrée Day (R) – 8: Definitely time to check that you’ve got bus passes for your children if they’re using la ramassage scolaire (school transport), and that you have the timetable. Ours all arrived a week or so ago. Rors doesn’t have a bus pass for his primary school transport. That’s organised and funded by [...]

Countdown to the Rentrée: Part 1

Only 13 days to go till the Rentrée – whether that’s an unlucky or lucky amount of days depends on whether you’re a pupil or a parent! It’s hard to believe the kids have been off nearly two months, but still aren’t going back yet. Nine weeks is quite a while, but it’s been fun [...]

Three to One

It’s back to school, so long as we can sort out Ruadhri’s bus, and suddenly the house feels very empty …