Too busy to blog

It's been a pretty busy few months with packing, winding up Nairobi jobs, spending time with friends we have made in the last 2 years whilst trying to keep life as normal for the kids as possible. So we have had kids parties, sleep overs, sports fixtures, school trips, a school show to fit in too. And my blogging has slipped a bit.

All our kids have birthdays in the first few months of the year. Matthew's came twice a when his godmother's gift arrived a few weeks late - post is a bit random here.



Jamie and his friends celebrating being a pre teen with a massive game of football and a nerf gun war in the garden before heading out go karting and back for chocolate cake. The whole day was lots of fun and left a flock of happy boys and a huge windfall (or ballfall) of green mangos from our tree. Katie and I cooked up a vat of chutney and, with help from a friend, I found a great Thai green mango salad recipe which has featured at most of the meals we've hosted for friends and work colleagues as we start our goodbyes over the last few weeks.

Katie's birthday was at the start of the holidays and only a few days after we had a kids goodbye party so hers was a lower key affair with her two best friends coming for the day and then meeting up with more friends at the pool for a swim and cake. She'd asked for Black Forest gateau. She got a Kenyan version made from the remnants of our store cupboard. It had all the constituent parts but looked nothing like her vision of the perfect cake. I was eventually forgiven when she discovered that it tasted pretty good.

So with kids all "a year" older, the house pretty much packed and in various containers to sail and fly back to London, and our contracts pretty much over it was time to head to the beach for one final fling and some much needed battery charging. More on that in a bit......

Anne