We got there in the end, first term has started at last! It felt like a hell of a rush toward the end of summer, especially with my boy starting in secondary school, you wouldn't think we'd had six weeks to prepare, in the last week we had so much stuff to get!

We went to get his uniform, the list the school gives you says to get it from John Lewis, but for plain shirts and trousers why am I going to go and buy expensive ones? They're a quarter of the price in Tesco and the quality is pretty similar! And he's growing so much they won't fit him in a few months!

He wears a school blazer but now it's getting colder we're looking at warm but thin quilted jackets to go over it. What a fuss! The blazers look daft I don't know why they need them!

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