hello!
hope you're all well and glad you had a good night out. where did you go?
yes, sfx, would echo going to edinburgh whenever it's warmest time you can go - bloody freezing! but beautiful city.
hello professor! thanks so much for all your advice about mumbai. blimey, what a fascinating,all-living, all-breathing, all yellow and black taxi-honking place it is, eh?
we went to the markest on sat (well crawford and chor bazaar which i LOVED) and oour dribver and some cheery, cross-eyed chap who declared himself as our guide (did have an official badge...) freaked me out a bit by keeping a tight grip on the kids. but think it was more to do with fearing they'd get lost or knocked over than anything more sinister (i hope). of course maybe they just thought i looked like an inept mother 
and if i had a rupee for every time someone's told me we shouldn't come here during the Monsoon.....
but it is quite overwhleming on your own at times with kids in tow, isn't it? but dh got a long weekend and we're off to goa on thursday. the age-old what we'd like vs what-the-kids-will-like-and-thereby-keep-us-sane debate ensued....gorgeous portuguese villa vs resort with STUFF for them to do...yep, of course it's the kiddie place..choice mainly made as will need something if it rains ALL the time!
then our last week will be in delhi as dh got a conference there.
sfx, your hols must seem to have so fast - your school is back next week, isn't it?
and, kew, ds must be excited about starting "big school." bet you can hardly believe it.
toodlepip