April Things

April was a busy month with travel, reading but absolutely no writing at all. This is a quick rundown of what happened around here in April:

• Health: I tackled an issue which I had been trying to ignore by seeing a private GP and then a specialist. I saw my physio for the last time (hopefully) about some hip/pelvic pain and I also started my weight loss journey which is definitely for health reasons rather than cosmetic but I am still interested to see where this leads. I continue to use out Peloton app to keep me active and I want to do more in May;
• Family: Austin has a couple of non-uniform days and time at Just Camps during the Easter break. He also played with his football team in a tournament in Rugby (it was freezing). Rich took him to BIrmingham to the Hot Wheels Live monster truck show – he had a lot of fun. Evelina managed to spend time with various friends including her absolute bestie in London (where I got to see mine too!). Rich had a hectic month with payment reviews to deliver and his huge London Summit – he smashed it;
• Home: I finally managed to get our gallery wall up!;
• Travel: we went to Disneyland Paris and then on to Paris proper for a couple of days. It was exhausting but so much fun. The kiddos loved the Louvre and the river dinner cruise was real highlight. I was also so happy to have my Disney fix!;
• Reading: I read four books this month and most of a fifth which I finished yesterday: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler (a thoughtful essay that has definitely made me want to read some of her novels); Babel by R. F. Kuang (this book has been raved about and should be so up my street as it is all about Linguistics but I found it too long and it dragged – good ending though); Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper (non-fiction on audio, this memoir is by one of the members of the Phelps family who make up the heinous Westboro Baptist Church and her story of awakening). The book I finished yesterday was The Women by Kristin Hannah about nurses in the Vietnam war – very good but not brilliant).