Er… panique!
It’s been a fairly quiet weekend around here; lots of “getting organised” type stuff, like going through the boys’ clothes to see what still fits who, putting away some of the summer stuff, etc. Next weekend might be a bit more eventful though:
a) swimming lessons start again on Saturday morning, and
b) we could have a French family visiting, and going home without their son if he decides to stay…
This has all happened astonishingly fast (the exchange thing, not the swimming lessons!) Normally it takes several months between applying and an exchange starting, but for a variety of reasons, this one has been arranged a bit differently. The organisation hasn’t even received our references yet (both the friends who were filling in their forms for us posted them on Friday), but the French family would like to start an exchange as soon as possible. Their son is keen, but also anxious, which I think is reasonable - I’d be anxious and I’m a grown-up (allegedly)! Of course it’s entirely possible he (or the family) will decide that he should go back home after the weekend, though we hope not!
Barney and George are very excited; Scratchy is freaking at the notion of his little boy possibly going away to France next year. I’m dealing with the slightly more pressing issues, like where everyone is going to sleep, and wondering how fast I can polish up my extremely rusty A-level French! It’s all a bit… well, I don’t know what to call it! But I do hope it all works out 
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I thought I commented here last night? Wow that’s fast, or something to that affect, and hope it all goes well!