First day of December! Am I going to say it again? Yes. Time passes so quickly! The gardener's cat has had her kittens, but unfortunately in a small storage shed which only our landlord has the key to. We're going to ask him for it and hopefully we'll get it this week. 

We still haven't got our furniture back. Dad went with two people with the highest integrity and respectability in Kenya to go and see our previous landlord, to try and convince him to give us our things. Eventually we agreed to pay, a slightly lower sum than what was wanted before. And this morning we were supposed to go and get the things, but the man has suddenly backed out and is refusing to accept the money from Dad, because he's too "junior"; he wants one of the other people to give it to him. So I don't know what's going on. It's such a maddening situation! All of the stuff put together isn't worth the amount of money he's asking, so I really don't know why we've agreed to pay it. Plus we're going back to England on the 12th, to have Christmas with my grandmother in London. So we're going to have to put all the stuff in storage - where?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to going to England. Maybe, maybe we'll have some snow - at least there'll be some frost - and I'll be able to go to Richmond Park again - and hopefully I'll see some of my friends. And from there back to France, back to my adorable little catties and then to school.