The sun has got his hat on

hip, hip, hip hooray. This is my idea of good weather, sunny enough to sit outside and enjoy a drink and a meal but not too hot that you feel sweaty and uncomfortable. Today hasn’t been hot by Skopelos standards but by Congleton standards it’s been a scorcher! Junior is still off school thus making working nigh on impossible, for me at least. Sean set off this morning promising he was going to work which consisted of him meeting someone in one cafe to have a drink and then straight after that, meeting someone else in another cafe for another drink! Junior and I caught up with him in the second cafe and after going to buy a washing machine we moved on to have lunch in the sunshine (see vegan section of blog), then moved next door to a cafe to have a drink. We then went home and junior and I read some stories and played whilst Sean went for another meeting before all going out again for an evening drink. It all seems perfectly natural over here but the idea of taking your 4 year old out for an evening drink is inconceivable in the UK. We left the bar around 10pm and there were children milling around everywhere, most of them without parents in tow. Obviously they were older than junior but still, if you saw groups of 10 year olds wandering around in the dark in England you’d be straight on to the police.
Although we’ve only been living here 3 months’, it hasn’t once felt like we were just on holiday, this feels like home. Maybe it’s because we’re working or because we have a young child in the local school, I don’t know what it is but it feels right. Somebody asked us the other day how things were going and we told them everything was fine to which they replied they’d ask us in 10 years’ time and see if we still felt the same way. I think we will.