Revealed!

The most intrusive, rude, surprising boy ever! Maybe not, but well beyond normal behaviour. On Saturday morning D and I were lying in bed, listening to the radio (glad that's all that we were doing!) when CofU opened the door, burst in, came right over to D's side of the bed and threw back the covers! D was just wearing satin boxer shorts, his customary summer pyjamas. CofU grunted, pulled the covers back and left the room. I laughed with shock, D was baffled and cross. no explanation given then or later for this behaviour. We have resorted to putting a wedge under our bedroom door.

Why he is with us

The "Centre of the Universe" AKA CofU has started at NX, it is the beginning of the term. He came with a large suitcase of his clothes and stuff plus school uniform including very large shoes. On Thursday he came with us to pick J up from scouts. There we discovered that he had been staying with another family for two weeks previously. The father of the other family couldn't stand him any more, the other, likable student threatened to leave them if CofU stayed and the rest of the family were only to glad to see that back of him. The father suggested that the CofU was an example of why you should never shake a baby! We got on really well with this other family and hope to see more of them, when the Cof U has left us at the end of this term.