Quiet time

We don't really have a lot to report this week. We joined the library in Richmond (took 2 minutes vs 2 weeks in Table View). And we finished Lyn's educational programme for children with (all sorts of) learning disabilities. Lyn wrote it principally for the Amathemba school for children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) in Table View, and that is where it will be piloted next year, but it has much wider application and we hope to 'spread it' after it has been fine tuned during the pilot. It consists of 5 modules, the total is about 1000 pages of manuals and workbooks plus 'kits' with items to support the actions in the programme. It has been a massive job and has really only been possible because Lyn has not got a daily practise with a client load to look after now.
She left this afternoon to go to a course in Glasgow on the principle of Feuerstein, a subject which she has been interested for many years and for which a course had now finally come up in a (reasonably) accessible place. So I will be by myself in Richmond for the week, although Sean will keep me company, at least after work. His news is that he has found a place to stay, a 'half house' in Wimbledon which he shares with three others. That arrangement ('flatshare') is the norm here for single young people. To rent a full flat for yourself is simply unaffordable in London (unless in a 'not too savoury' neigbourhood). Wimbledon is to London what Perth is to Australia: It is full of South Africans. Apart from Charing Cross (in Central London), there are a number of South African shops in Wimbledon (where you can buy Castle beer, Ouma rusks, NikNaks and ProNutro if you are so inclined). No wonder that his three housemates (a couple and a single girl) are also South African. He is moving in on Saturday (after the company's Christmas party at Hever Castle as reported earlier).
More news next week!