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Kristoff

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Yay. For you. Does that mean you get that weekend off?

Once it’s over, there will be NO MORE weekend activities for me! Just TV series and nice drinks at home!!!... Oh wait, we’ll also have daughter’s 6th birthday in a couple of weeks... And I’m taking pictures of the annual farm animal fair on another weekend... Oh no, I just can’t get a break!!! [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24] :eek:
 

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I'm back home.
There's a giant storm out there in the Gulf Coast and I pretty much drove through some of it.
However. Of the 500 miles home, I only spent about 2 hours driving in the rain and only about 1 hour in heavy rain. I made it in just over 8 hours. So it was good time.
I was greeted by a delirious little dog. Kelly was also happy to have me back....Just not as much as Suki.
I understand completely.
It's good to be home.

Aw, your girls missed you! :<3:
Hey, wouldn’t it be strange if Kelly got more excited than Suki? :eek:
Glad to know you’ve made it back safe.
 

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It’s a holiday weekend in the UK too, but not here in Norway. It’s our last day today - we head home this afternoon.

Back home some places have suffered flooding during big storms. Part of Birmingham had 58mm (Well over 1 inch) of rain in an hour. A cousin of JoesDad had water up to the doorstep :(

Luckily our house won’t flood. It’s at the top of a hill; if it flooded arks would be needed in the rest of the county.

We had Whitsun the week before. I’m quite sure so did the Norwegians.
Hope everyone is safe in the UK...
 

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I'm back home.
There's a giant storm out there in the Gulf Coast and I pretty much drove through some of it.
However. Of the 500 miles home, I only spent about 2 hours driving in the rain and only about 1 hour in heavy rain. I made it in just over 8 hours. So it was good time.
I was greeted by a delirious little dog. Kelly was also happy to have me back....Just not as much as Suki.
I understand completely.
It's good to be home.
LOL Shame, The don't call them a man's best friend for no reason.:D;)
 

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It’s a holiday weekend in the UK too, but not here in Norway. It’s our last day today - we head home this afternoon.

Back home some places have suffered flooding during big storms. Part of Birmingham had 58mm (Well over 1 inch) of rain in an hour. A cousin of JoesDad had water up to the doorstep :(

Luckily our house won’t flood. It’s at the top of a hill; if it flooded arks would be needed in the rest of the county.
Lol, Was that done on purpose. Very clever thinking.:D
 

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Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.
I been doing yard work today. Weedeating and trimming bushes, now it's time for some lemonade.
I thought that was what Clunker was for? Is he not doing his job? Or is he like his Daddy and has too many projects on the go?
 

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The Danes finish end of June. And start again mid-August. :eek: In the Russian school system we’d finish end of May and not return until September 1!

That’s a long break in Russia! Here it’s 6 weeks starting mid July-ish in England & Wales... so they go back early September.

In Scotland they finish at the end of June and go back mid August ... I have no idea why, but it’s always been that way
 

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Once it’s over, there will be NO MORE weekend activities for me! Just TV series and nice drinks at home!!!... Oh wait, we’ll also have daughter’s 6th birthday in a couple of weeks... And I’m taking pictures of the annual farm animal fair on another weekend... Oh no, I just can’t get a break!!! [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24] :eek:
Big Kisses. It will get better ....someday!:D
 

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Lol, Was that done on purpose. Very clever thinking.:D

Not entirely, but the River Medway is prone to flooding so being away from that was a factor. What we hadn’t realised was how houses at the bottom of our little hill can be subject to flash floods in bad storms as the road turns into a river. We are lucky we chose a house at the top; we did look at one at the bottom!
 

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The Danes finish end of June. And start again mid-August. :eek: In the Russian school system we’d finish end of May and not return until September 1!
Our schools finish 22/06/2018 and start again on 17/07/2018. I wish I was still at school, so that I could get the long holidays as well.
 

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Not entirely, but the River Medway is prone to flooding so being away from that was a factor. What we hadn’t realised was how houses at the bottom of our little hill can be subject to flash floods in bad storms as the road turns into a river. We are lucky we chose a house at the top; we did look at one at the bottom!
That was a lucky choice then. Good thing you took the house at the top and not at the bottom. But then again I have always heard that it is always better to be at the top rather than at the bottom.:D:D
 

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Not entirely, but the River Medway is prone to flooding so being away from that was a factor. What we hadn’t realised was how houses at the bottom of our little hill can be subject to flash floods in bad storms as the road turns into a river. We are lucky we chose a house at the top; we did look at one at the bottom!

That was one top choice!
 

Kristoff

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Our schools finish 22/06/2018 and start again on 17/07/2018. I wish I was still at school, so that I could get the long holidays as well.

“Long” holidays?? That’s less than a month! :eek:
No one tops Russia, of course, with their 3 months of the summer holiday, but also in Turkey they finish mid- or late June and can start early in September — depending on the dates of the Eid.
 
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