50 hours

The kids are back.
I hadn't seen them for 50 hours.
That's the longest I've ever been without both of them since they began.
(Actually that's not true, but hospital doesn't count!)
Good to have them home again.

The picnic blanket is drying on the line. All its mud and spillages have been washed away; all the marks to show it's had a good innings over the holidays. Going outside to take this blip it's clear that Autumn is peeping at us, quite a nip in the air.

11 days 'till the new term begins. I can feel myself bracing.