The start of this month continued with more progress on the new roof and got the drone out to get a few decent aerial shots of it too:)

The first weekend I had tickets to Guns 'n Roses at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, so headed up to London on the Saturday to Duncs' place for an evening braai before getting the train up to White Hart Lane for the concert. As always, the band put on a really good and entertaining show before heading back to Clapham for a nightcap at Duncs before calling it a night.

The following morning I headed back down to Southwick, meeting Una and the kids at Port Kitchen for a coffee. That afternoon we headed over to Lancing Beach and then to La Tavola for dinner that evening.

Over the next week, I headed out one evening down to the New Port Arms and The Ship Inn for a few beers with Pete, Adrian and Doug. Then on the Wednesday we got a call to say we'd been offered a place at Eastbrook Primary Academy for Ellen, so we were over the moon about that - had really been hoping we'd get in there!

On the Friday I headed up to London again to meet up with Gav, first for a bite to eat at Five Guys then over to Hyde Park to watch Pearl Jam supported by the Pixies which was really cool to see them both!

On the Saturday, poor little Ian had croup so spent the morning at Worthing A&E just to check him over. Then that afternoon I took Ellen to Poppy's birthday party at Portslade Sports Centre which she enjoyed. The next couple of weeks were all nice outdoor days - being in the garden and the paddling pool, a good bit of time down on the beach, plenty of Cargo Bike trips, a couple of beach braais, Widewater Lagoon Beach and al fresco dining at home.

This past week was more social, with me heading out on the Monday evening to meet Lee, Doug and Adrian in Shoreham for a few beers at Piston Broke, Crown and Anchor and the Duke of Wellington. On the Tuesday we had Tom, Anna and Scarlett visit us for lunch in the afternoon which was really good to see them and catch up again! Then this Wednesday was a busy house day with the floors upstairs getting sanded throughout which was rather disruptive, but very happy with the result - I think they came up looking really nice :)

After a busy day today tidying the house, we've got Claire, Michael, Jack and Dara arriving tomorrow for a few days holiday staying with us, so that'll be nice to see them again and for the kids too!