Apologies for 'bumping' this up, but I just wanted to say thanks for the several messages of concern, as some of you will have spotted that I have again been on one of my prolonged forum/internet sabbaticals to concentrate on other things!
Extremely briefly...well I am now living back in the USA! It was always our intention to return to the USA soon, as we were very unhappy with the school where our three children were being educated in England, and they never settled in England, and then when my wife back in May applied for a position playing with an orchestra here in New York City – and she has been offered the job, starting in August – we decided to just wait until the school term ended in England, and then move back to the USA before the summer kicks in, which we did 2 weeks ago. I’m actually going to home-school our 3 kids from now on until they reach college age, it’s just way too disruptive to have them enrol in another new school here in NYC, the poor things don't know if they are coming or going.
We are renting an apartment on W71st Street in Manhattan, which is only about six blocks north of the Lincoln Centre where my wife will be based, and we’re only a couple hundred yards from Central Park West and the park, so it's worked out rather well, but this is definitely it now, no more disruption. Moving house as you will know is a total nightmare... moving house to another entire continent - and not once but twice in 3 years - is all of your nightmares combined into one! Though we lived in DC for many years until 2009, my wife’s family are actually all from New York, and she grew up here, so we already feel very settled and at home, and we have had a lot of help from family and friends, so that’s it really!
Never a dull moment in TheSound’s life!! Hope to be back posting again now, until our next upheaval anyway!!!! Thanks again friends, I missed you (well, most of you!!!)
