The hardest part of doing this...

Is, so far, only summing stuff up in 3 posts! I have a 4th, perhaps just this once, perhaps not....My stepson came to stay today, we have only seen him once since Christmas and it is so lovely to have him here, with his view on the world at 13. He is cross with his school, loathes (his words) his teachers, but LOVEs (his words) the beef and onion pie I have made us all, complete with pastry cows on top. To hear him comment how much trouble I had taken to make it warmed my heart and made me ashamed I nearly asked his dad to stop at the fish and chip shop on the way home.