Saturday 3rd July 18.00<br/>Kat<br/>Hmm Alcohol and university life often go hand in hand I’m afraid, its not something that I will lead you into but more of a norm often amongst students in the UK.  On the bright side you will have increased tolerance, on the down side the more tolerance the most expensive it gets!<br/>I think getting your mum over for thanksgiving is a brilliant idea, she will then view it as a holiday and she might be less keen to live in London once we’ve taken her up to the metropolis.  I suspect its far more like New york than Miami or anywhere in Florida she is used to. It will be great seeing her over here and e can take her up to London to see a show one weekend, though we’ll need to book the tickets as some shows are booked months in advance.  Is there anything you think she would live to see? Is there any show you would like to see?<br/>I think we should be able to get together most weekends and certainly during the breaks we can try and find some work local to us, even if it’s in the supermarket so that we can spend more time together.  During the term time I suspect we’ll be able to come up to you sometimes or I can drive up and bring you back, DC can stay at friends while I pick you up, though she may want to come in the car, though she would probably sleep more of the way.<br/><br/>In terms of the job, we’ll just have to work round that somehow, though if you got a job locally to us at the weekends it would be easier for arrangements which might mean you would need to come down here every weekend, that would work I think, just means you would be working in the daytime so we would only get the evenings, but it might help pay your way. Alternatively you get an evening shift in Oxford four days a week, I suspect it depends upon what’s available though!<br/>The weekend is half over I’m afraid, but we spent some time shopping today for holiday clothes. DC grows so fast that summer stuff has to be bought every year.  Kids are expensive! Though always worth it of course, especially my little girl.<br/><br/>Tomorrow I think we’ll be in the garden, DC can work on her patch, weeding and I’ll do some of the heavier work – sometimes I wonder why we don’t put astroturf down in our gardens, it would save a lot of work! What did you get up to today?  Anything planned for tomorrow.  Can’t wait to see you as time seems to be getting less and less to when we will meet again.<br/><br/>Love<br/>Ben x<br/>