My family's two week stay with us in Maine is just coming to an end. I am so proud of my daughter and her husband for the way in which they are raising my grandson. It's a joy to see the three of them together and the little boy is obviously thriving in their care.

He will be seven in September and already uses words like eventually and exhausted in their proper context as a matter of course. He was asking yesterday for words to spell and does extremely well for year one - mostly his spellings are correct and, if not, he's using logic to work out what it should be.

He is a pleasure to take out, behaves very well in social occasions and hsa made quite a number of friends over here.

I shall miss them when they go back to the UK tomorrow.