Eight months ago hubby and I started the long and often arduous process of becoming foster carers.  To cut a long story very short we went to panel and passed and then less than a week later one small boy arrived.  Without going into any detail he is started to find his feet, he reads avidly, he laughs daily and has put on nearly two pounds in one week!  So you’ll have to excuse me if I’m not around much this summer, there is reading aloud to be enjoyed, cakes to be made and bubbles to be blown, let alone the blackberrying on the almost daily visits to the park.  See you soon, just not quite sure when. X