New home

We are now settling into our new home here in Southport. We are 2 minutes from the beach(not that we're planning on doing any swimming!),cinema, swimming pool, train station, and we are right in the middle of the town. Our living room window looks right over the main tree-lined thoroughfare and shopping area of the town. Southport is only 45 minutes away from Liverpool, and just over an hour to Manchester.
The kids will begin school here on Monday, they will need to take a 5 minute bus trip to school. We walked back from the school this Monday, it was a nice bright winter's day and we passed through a really nice park with a pond full of ducks,geese and seagulls. Kids seem to like it here, although Jack does miss Mui-Wo beach, well he was the self proclaimed 'King of the beach'!
Parents' evening was last night, Jack has caught up with his reading, after having no school for 7 months, and his teacher said he is 'happy-go-lucky' and 'not phased by anything' just like his brother( the same teacher taught Joseph 3 years ago). It was the same for Joseph, who has become football mad again, well not again but more so.
Teosdee, of course is happy here-it's not Hong Kong.
It's 3pm, the sky is clear, but the air is crisp. I can feel the day rolling to a close, the birds are preparing for the evening ahead.We have seagulls and pigeons on the roof, and they spend the day flying up and down the street. There is a robin living nearby, it sits on the garden fence and watches me having a smoke in the morning. I have not become a bird-enthuisiast, but I miss the tropical sound of cicadas, locusts and frogs and watching bats fly past at dusk, so I notice the different sounds here. It is time to put the heating on, I can see the people walking faster to get home, now with scarves and hats with hands deep in pockets ready for a night encased in front of the telly.
Give me a night on the beach anyday-screw the birds, seagulls, crisp air, it is too bloody cold-for me! TV is okay though.