Made it to Helston (final stop!)

Hello all,

Sorry for the lateness of this post... we made to England safe and sound, and I have successfuly connected our computer to the internet so I am free to blog on. We arrived here about two weeks ago, and our furniture arrived around August 6th. We received an serious phone call the same day from Nova Scotia; Laura's father had contracted a serious disease called "Gullain Barre Syndrome", which affects the abilty of nerves to carry signals (including to the lungs). http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/guillain-barre-syndrome/DS00413 Laura's mother flew back to Canada immediatley, and Laura shortly after. Her father has been improving steadily albeit slowly; we are extremely optimistic for a complete recovery.


Life here in England has been going well. I have been here alone with the kids for about a week and a half now... they are able to undo pretty much everything I do so the organizing is going a bit slowly. However, as luck would have it, Teresa Gunther (of Lanigan, Sask) was up visiting her family in Ireland and England so she stopped in for a few days to help "de-disasterize" our place (many thanks!!!). Also making life a bit easier, I have already found a baby sitter to help look after the kids as I try to unpack everything... she is great with the kis (Miah already puts her arms out to her before me!).

We managed to buy a car; a Peugeot 307 SW. Like most cars here, it is a diesel, and the kids really enjoy the sun-ceiling (the whole roof basically). Here is a photo of it below:

Cars don't rust here... this car is a 2002 and when I looked under the hood it looked brand new. It gets about 60 Mpg on the highway, which is a good thing because diesel here costs about two bucks a liter.

In terms of adjusting, so far it is just the small stuff. Like when you go in the grocery store, eggs are not in the refridgerated section. And you buy "Ariel", not "Tide", (to be honest, I am pretty sure that I have been doing Laundry with fabric softener up until now... the clothes smell great but aren't so clean). Everything else is getting pretty normal... I finally don't fear for my life every time I take to the roads.

I will start to update the blog more often now. If you are interested, here are a bunch of pictures that start from our plane trip to London and end here. The beach is Praa Sands, about 3 miles away, and as nice as it is, I am told there are much nicer out there.



I hope this finds you all well. I look forward to updating the blog a bit more often in the future.

M

PS. Brucey: Cask conditioned ales and surfing lessons... see you soon!