We are one week into our winter school holidays. This is our mid-year, three week holiday, which is such an amazing amount of time to have off. I do have some work to do over the break, but sitting at home doing an hour of work here and there is pretty nice compared to the normal pace of our term-time lives. Andy has taken the kids out for an hour so I'm taking the opportunity to sit outside in the sun and catch up on the blog with no interruptions. Here's what I've been up to lately! Reading I have read a few good books lately. The first is called The Heir Apparent , by Rebecca Armitage. Armitage is a journalist with the ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, for those in America), and as an International Correspondent has covered news to do with the British royal family. This book is about 29-year-old Lexi, or Princess Alexandrina, born third in line to the throne, behind her twin brother Louis. After her mother tragically dies in a boating accident wh...