My wonderful day off...and tomorrow is December 1st!!

Hey everyone, so yesterday was my day off!! I had decided that I would go for a long walk to Oldbury Church also known as "the little church on top of the little hill". It's about 3 1/2 miles from Thornbury, and a beautiful walk through country roads. I felt like Eliza Bennett walking through the mud and sunshine today, I really got a chance to clear my head and do a bit of thinking. When I got to the church I was so excited because it over looks the river Severn (divides England and Wales)and it was such a nice day so the view was amazing and I wasn't too cold up on the hill. So I thought I might share some great photo's of the river, the view and what I saw along the way..:)
I'm doing very well, super excited for my upcoming holiday which I will share with CC and her wonderful family. I can't wait to have a Norwegian Christmas and explore CC's city (or is it more of town?). Tomorrow is Silke's birthday so we are all giving her a framed group photo of us, so that she can remember the short but great time she had with us. We are still very sad about having to move, but we don't have a choice really, so we decided maybe change is good. Except one thing, we just found out that it's very likely Shamick will be leaving us to move to another house here and we are getting Martin instead. We all like Martin very much, but it will be such a hard thing for us not to have Shamick in our house. He brings so but light and laughter to our lives, all the children do, and we don't want to have this change. It's not for sure yet, but more than a 50% chance, so when I return from Norway I think I will have a lot of readjusting to do.
I'll let everyone know in about two weeks what will happen, hopefully it's a good change not a bad one.
This weekend it's also the Start of Advent, so Sunday we will have an advent spiral in the hall for the children and their families (I'll try and get photo's!) Sunday is also Manuel's Birthday, so Saturday night we are all going to Bristol to celebrate!!! Another thing is that yesterday we started rehearsal for the Christmas school play, and I'm Eve (I really get to eat an apple, funny I know!). It's a very funny/ fun process because everyone is involved and the children are so cute!
I'll make sure to get photo's and share them with you!
Well got to go, I'll keep giving you updates and you keep tuning in!

cheers,
and well wishes
-Ilaria
P.S. sorry it's not a long post, I'm just very tired but happy!








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