{"id":3854,"date":"2020-06-24T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3854"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T00:46:38","slug":"boarding-with-three-family-members-and-a-cousin","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/article\/boarding-with-three-family-members-and-a-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Boarding with Three family members and a cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home away from home, as Mr Walker says, does not relate to boarding school.\u00a0 However, having two brothers and a cousin in the house tends to bring it pretty close.\u00a0 Over the past five years, Robson House has become my school family, and with the addition of George, two years ago, and Alex this year it feels even closer.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that the other boys in the house are getting fairly sick of having three Bishops and our cousin Will Kemp in the house, but it has been great for us.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about having brothers in the house is that we always have someone to come to if we need help with homework (if they are in a good mood), advice about school, or even just if we have a problem.\u00a0 However, there is usually a price to pay for the help we get, which could include \u2018borrowing\u2019 money from one another, taking the other\u2019s food supply or hogging all of Mum\u2019s pre-prepared meals at the start of term.<\/p>\n<p>While we are all living together, it\u2019s also great that we aren\u2019t always around one another.\u00a0 We all have our own friend groups, and the return trips home and dinners with our parents are always filled with interesting stories that we might not have heard from the other\u2019s perspective.\u00a0 We are really grateful for Mr and Mrs Walker, Mr Stocks, Marshall and Mr Hennessey for putting up with all of us, and most of all for our parents for coughing up three lots of school fees!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/06\/Alex-Oliver-and-George-Bishop-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/06\/Alex-Oliver-and-George-Bishop-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/06\/Alex-Oliver-and-George-Bishop-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/06\/Alex-Oliver-and-George-Bishop-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home away from home, as Mr Walker says, does not relate to boarding school.\u00a0 However, having two brothers and a cousin in the house tends to bring it pretty close.\u00a0 Over the past five years, Robson House has become my school family, and with the addition of George, two years ago, and Alex this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[12],"class_list":["post-3854","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-robson-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}