I'm attempting a move from iWeb to Blogger as the provider of news from our time in Cheshire. It's not going as smoothly as I thought it would. Maybe there are too many options and things I can do here and this is muddling things up. We'll give it a go, however, and see how it goes.

My reasons for changing are two-fold, I want more options in terms of layout and I want to make it easier for folks to link to our blog.

If you would like to access entries from January to mid-April click here: Dominus Insularum, the iWeb weeks.

Cam Smith visited this weekend and he took the train up from London yesterday morning. I went down to visit him last weekend and the main event last Sunday and yesterday were Fulham football matches. Last week Fulham beat Blackpool, but this week they fell to Manchester United. The Manchester ground is much larger than Fulham's and the Fulham fans were outnumbered maybe 20:1 or something. The game was a bit choppy, but it was wonderful to be at Old Trafford to check it out. Fulham played well at times, they just are not as good of a team as Man U. Being a visitor at Old Trafford is a bit intense. On several occasions it seemed as if the whole of the stadium was looking at the 1,500 Fulham fans (all sequestered into the same section) and yelling at us. It was crazy - as was the security surrounding us and the security that was present outside of the ground as we left the stadium and re-entered the dangerous sea of Manchester fans. There weren't any problems and we never felt threatened, but it was a crazy experience nonetheless.

From the ground we went into Manchester and wandered around before taking the train back to Alderley Edge where Andrea had a pizza waiting for us. Delicious stuff. Cam left this morning to make it back to London where he is gearing up for a house move and a trip to Lebanon for a wedding.

Today we went for a walk near the Roches (the Rocks). The original plan was to hang out where Sir Gawain cut off the head of the Green Knight (for the second time) but we explored the rocky part closer to the village instead. The girls had a wonderful time climbing around the rocks and to be honest the whole enterprise made me somewhat nervous with there being cliffs there and all. There was only one minor scrape that happened today - well, a couple of scrapes - but yesterday produced the mother of all scrapes as Rose fell off a bike and now has a big scab running up and down her leg.

Tomorrow begins a busy week with royal wedding parties at school, a music concert there and an assembly celebrating their study of South America. Since they studied SA through the lens of Paddington Bear, I am interested to see what comes of the assembly.

More later.