Reunited

This evening we met up with the Hammond family from Stockton Heath, who are on holiday in Sydney. Adam, their youngest, was a friend of Ella's back home, they went to the same childminders' for twelve months and Ella talked about him incessantly at home. Even now she talks about him and likes looking through the book of photos that Becky and Jon sent her away with.

She's been excited about seeing Adam in Sydney, though she also kept asking if she was going to see Becky and Jon so I had to deal her the same blow over and over.

Anyway, I collected her from nursery and we headed into the city for the big meet. It was like a scene from a film where two star-crossed lovers meet on a railway platform, only in their case it was outside the toilets in Sydney Aquarium which doesn't have quite the same ring. Adam had grown a bit but once she realised who it was there was no stopping them; they skippped and ran their way around Darling Harbour chasing each other, holding hands and hugging like their lives depended on it.

After a birthday tea for Adam (complete with a cake which his mum supplied and I hastily iced and candled) they chased each other around the fountains at the Lindt cafe while we caught up on developments back home; the shopping centre that's still not quite finished, the local hospital trust and it's lack of resources, the crappy weather. As I said before, nothing changes.