leaving

well we're now in the u.s.a for 3 months until nov 11th having braved the post-botched-terrorist-attack chaos at heathrow airport - 20 hours altogether to get from london to chicago and two days in all to get to our final destination of kansas city

the last 21 months since leaving singapore (26 for kailik) have been hectic

i've now taught in the uk for nearly 2 years, updated my national curriculum experience (just as the numeracy and literacy hours are about to undergo a major facelift and the curriculum is going to be pushed back to more topic-based, cross curricular methods as it was when i left the uk in 1995) and been through 2 OFSTED inspections in 2 different schools

kailik in the mean time has got his long-awaited mba, studying at london business school in regent's park for the last two years and completing a three month internship last summer with an american medical company based in switzerland - so we had a nice summer break in lausanne and geneva

but we've said goodbye to gay parades, concerts in hyde park, olympic celebrations, cricketing victories and footballing defeats, bombs on public transport and panic at airports and taken leave of our little flat in baker street after numerous hours spent over the road in regent's park strolling through the autumn colours or a thin dusting of snow or laying in the sun on the grass by the boating lake, enjoying a picnic courtesy of marks and sparks, walking past the mile-long queues outside madam tussaud's, walking down to oxford street to push through the multitudes of shoppers and bible bashers and doing the late night club scene followed by the obligatory kerbside hotdog while shivering our bollocks off waiting for a night bus - london is a great place to live but not for too long - and it was nice to be back in the uk for the start of a new incarnation of dr who....