Three more weeks in Hong Kong coming to and end!

I'll be home by next Thursday! It's been hot and humid with endless rain and thunder so I haven't dared take out my nice camera in case it gets waterlogged. We've been mostly taken up with childcare. In China, new mothers lie-in for a month in a confinement hotel. Our daughter in law has done her confinement in Shenzhen (with the twins) so we've been going over there for weekends but spending the weekdays in Hong Kong doing the school run for their older sibling. As her parents couldn't decide which school to send her to, they've sent her to one in the morning (Shrewsbury School - offshoot of the UK Shrewsbury School) and a different one in the afternoon, a very local school which teaches in English, Cantonese and some Mandarin. It makes the school run quite complex! Added to that are classes after school - two art sessions per week, ballet, gymnastics and Chinese lessons at home - quite a timetable for a three-year-old (nearly four). We've had end-of-term parties and shows - a wild party at the local school and a rather more formal performance at Shrewsbury!

You'll see from the weather forecasts we've had some pretty extreme weather! ...and yes that's a doggy in a nappy in that window in the final picture (not uncommon here).

Really looking forward to some temparate English weather, a green English garden and of course seeing all of you who'll be at the next workshop in just over a week's time (Sunday 28th June).