Hail Jul,
many thanks for the books – got them in two packs. I’ll be reading them as soon as I’ve finished the latest – ‘do not disturb’ by debbie bagshaw -a gripping read, possibly modeled on ‘only a factory girls’ ! All good here. two new puskies in residence – Geoff softened right up when he actually saw them 
fitting in nicely and don’t seem to mind a spot of mangling. hope all good out there. Have you painted the statue yet?
Cheers for the great present Liv and Han – they fit fine, and will be perfect for the summer. The nurds were pretty tasty!! Hope all good with the new house. Crips prezzie is lost in the post (as per usual!) – is yours Jul!!? Glad the parcel got there -can’t believe it was broken though. I packaged that up in a much bigger box than was needed, and at great personal expense, crammed it with your shorts and some saucisson for extra padding – festering posties :/ Send me a pic when it’s painted.
a package from the book depository is winging its way to you at a rate of knots! but possibly it is on a tramp steamer and thus will take a year or two to arrive.
yes when the package arrived it looked as though someone had given it a good kicking, and speaking as an ex postie, it probably did.
wow – pretty impressive mama. good idea.
Indeed! I ALWAYS lock – Rio unlocked once at the critical moment, but no spectators! pouring with rain all day here – a small break fora mullberry trip to the lake.
Surprise indeed!! Jul is nestling in the spare sare room – liv and han will have a job moving him!!
how do you add photo’s then? not obvious, if i might make one criticism!! also, not sure about the Hey Ginger greeting
photos are added in the normal manner. “Dashboard” -> “new post”, etc.
posting via the front page is text only i’m afraid.
Good and clean -refreshing on th eye.
Those tums are repulsive…though mine is worryingly similar at the moment – Jul could do with a spot of your flab!! Also a trim I’ll have a personalized e-mail – not sure what I’ll do with it though. All good here – R and O getting on nicely – fav games are: race round and round the table with respective car/pushy thing until you catch up with the other person and ram their ankles. Get O to hang onto the back of the bobby car, cruise along at a gentle pace then suddenly charge off so he bites the dust – strangely enough O loves this game!! Try and ride billson – a never ending challenge. Tackling – this works better when Geoff is here to ref the game, though O has got a pretty strong head. O has some good forms of defence though – Scream as loud as possible when R head his way to snitch a toy – bite and hang on when R pushes/tackles/sits on him. Legs it – he’s getting pretty nippy now.
After a jolly bit of unblocking the loo, (as I’m not too encouraging about playing in the toilet, they see that as a general invite to fill the loo with whatever comes to hand as quickly as possible, and to ram it down with the toilet brush before I get there – they are pretty sneaky as Rio can open the door now, but they give themselves away by cackling as they stuff!!)it’s now time for bed here.
After a love summer of near all sunshine ( though the locals have complained bitterly – not enough 40 days for them! ) and much pool usage (yesterday the pool was quite warm!), the weather changed dramatically for the weekend. Rain yesterday, and cloud today! Most distressing. You must be sending us some of your foul weather. we are going to narbonne plage today to find the sunshine again. I was hoping for at least another month of sunshine and pooling. Figs are coming thick and fast hear – pretty delicious, but there is a limit to how many figs one can consume in a day! Well, time to get Breakfast ready. Rio and Orlo are ‘jouer voiture’ together. I can see it now. In a few months I’ll be able to sit back and relax with the latest DF while they charge around together!!!
I would agree with Liv – only a crazy fool would subject the poor healing bod to rigorous exercise. Mine isn’t too keen on it at the best of time!. Though you bod probably found the marathon training a bit of light relief from the whiskey/rum onslaught it has been accustomed to! I presume this was a day out of the norm though – it sound to me like Riley would be envious of your normal daily routine!! Lounging around ’til all hours and then heading off for a spot of chatting, for which you get paid, and then spending said pay in ‘da pub. A breeze.
Feel free to come over here and get a taste of real work. Geoff goes back to work on Monday morning all ready for his 5 day weekend! Non stop charging round from sun up to sun down playing/cleaning/more playing/cooking/more playing/nap time (usually try and sit down for 5 minutes if they happen to be kind enough to have a nap at the same time – usually not. They like to stagger snoozes so as to keep me on my toes all day. When they do nap together, and I edge towards the sofa with a cup of tea, inevitable one of them wakes up again as I reach for my book. The Basil F feeling all to common!) Orlando sleep pretty well though, and Rio’s pee-pees are getting under control. He goes by himself 2 out of 3 times now, unless there is something exiting going on in which case he forgets – as in decathelon the other day – I’m sure it’s dried up now
Anyhoo, Calvin and Orlo in bed, so I’m missing out on reading time. Oh yes, we are having Christmas here this year. All welcome – we might even have a tree!!! and there will be ski-ing and wot not.
T x
How is that the finest cartoon ever? the main bloke is a cheese ball, Rem is it ?!!
I go with dogtanion!
Cheers for birthday messages one and all! Cheese looks most tasty – don’t forget the water biscuits to go with it!! Geoff got me an Olive tree, and Rio and Orlo got a bunch of flowers! I got these prezzies before my birthday as we were in Avignon for the actual day, celebrating Jaques 60th birthday. Good fun had by all. cor. can’t sit down for five seconds. orlando bleating!
well a concert with that happy soul should cheer mama up! what price le cirque du soleil???
I was informed by a reliable source (Dick Francis) that all female names in Japan ended with ‘oko’ -?
How do they carry their babies in Japan? is there some sort of handy sling that I can purchase via you? seeing as I’ve got a good collection going! And do you actually want a birthday prezzie? if so post your address!!
WE HAD PLANNED TO GO CAMPING IN BERTHA LAST WEEKEND, BUT WHEN GEOFF TRIED TO GET THE POWER DRILL FROM WORK, THEY HAD ALL BEEN BOOKED OUT. AS WE NEEDED THIS TO DRILL THROUGH THE METEL PLATE TO PUT UNDER RIO’S SEAT IN THE VAN, WE HAD TO POSPONE THE TRIP TO THIS WEEKEND. NOT MEANT TO BE AS NICE BUT STILL A 4 DAY WEEKEND.
GEOFF GOT THE DRILL FROM WORK BUT EVERY EVENING IT WAS TOO DARK BY THE TIME WE HAD GOT RIO AND ORLANDO IN BED TO SCRABBLE ROUND UNDER THE VAN. WE COULD HAVE TRIED WITH A TORCH BUT DIDN’T MUCH FANCY THAT. NO PROBLEM WE THOUGH, WE’LL JUST DO IT ON THE WED NIGHT AND LEAVE FIRSTH THING THUR….
GEOFF TRIED TO DRILL THROUGH THE PLATE SO THAT WE HAD ONE HOLE READY FOR THE MORROW – HORROR. THE BLASTED THING DIDN’T DO THROUGH AT ALL. POSSIBLY DRILL BIT IS BLUNT OR DRILL NOT CHARGED WE THOUGH. NEW PLAN, GET ANOTHER DRILL BIT IN THE MORNING, TEST IT AND WHEN IT WORKS FINE TAKE OUT SEAT ECT…
AFTER A RAFRESHING NIGHTS SLEEP WE HAD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE CORRECT DRILL BIT (BACKED UP BY DOD E-MAIL!) GEOFFS LATERAL THINKING NOT BEING WHAT IT COULD BE, HE HAD BEEN TRYING TO DRIKL THROUGH IT WITH A WOOD DRILL! METEL DRILL BIT SHOT THROUGH THE FIRST HOLE NO PROBLEM.
ALL SYSTEMS GO! WE PACKED SOME THINGS INTO THE VAN, I WASHED UP AND DID LAST MINUTE STUFF WHILE GEOFF LOOSENED ALL THE BOLTS. GOT ORLANDO TO SLEEP, RIO WONDERING ROUND IN THE VAN. BY THIS TIME BOTH OF US ARE READY TO GO AND CHEERFULLY EXPECTING TO BE OFF IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. ME IN THE VAN AND GEOFF UNDER IT, WE GET THE SEAT OFF NO PROBLEMS – RIO HELPING HAPILY THE WHILE. GEOFF SLIDES UNDER WITH THE PLATE TO HOLD IT UNDER THE VAN, AND I GET READY WITH THE DRILL. GIVE IT AN EXPERIMENTAL GO. LOUD PROTESTS FROM RIO ABOUT THE ‘DAMASHINE’ SO WE TRY THE TV AS A DITRACTION WHILE WE DRILL THE HOLES. LEGG IT BACK INTO THE VAN AND POCK THE DRILL THROUGH….. IT DOESN’T GO THROUGH FAR ENOUGH TO GO THROUGH THE PLATE. SLIGHT DENT IN BONHOMIE BY NOW BUT NO PROBLEM WE THINK, JUST MARK THE HOLES OUT AND DILL THEM OUTSIDE. A BELLOW FROM THE HOUSE INDICATES ORLANDO HAS WOKEN. LEG IT IN AND PROP HIM UP INFRONT OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (RIO HAS LOST INTEREST BUT IS PLAYING WITH HIS TRAINS SO ALL’S GOOD).
WE MARK OUT THE HOLES BY DRILLING A SMALL MARK WITH THE TIP OF THE DRILL BIT WHICH POKES THROUGH. RATHER OVERENTHUSIASTICALLY GEOFF DRILLS TWO HOLES. NATURALLY THESE DON’T CORRESPOND WITH THE HOLES UNDER THE VAN. BONHOMIE NOW COMPLETELY GONE…
DECIDE TO BOLT ONE HOLE IN – THE BOLT WON’T EVEN GO THROUGH THE METEL PLAT. OBVIOUSLY DRILL AT A VERY SLIGHT DIFFERENT ANGLE. BELLOW FROM THE HOUSE FROM ABANDONNED CHILDREN. CURSING FREELY NOW, ME QUESTIONING THE POINT OF GOING ECT. CHEER CHILDREN UP. SIT BOTH IN VAN WHILE WE PUT THE SEAT BACK ON. DECIDE TO GO ANYWAY WITHOUT PLATE – RIO ISN’T THAT HEAVY. EVERYTHING IS IN THE VAN NOW. SHUTTERS CLOSED. LOCKED UP. ORLANDO IN VAN ASLEEP. RIO SNUGGLED INTO HIS SEAT WITH HIS BOTT. GEOFF IN. ME BEHIND TO DIRECT. NOTHING HAPPENS….
I WALK ROUND THE VAN TO FIND GEOFF LOOKING NOT A LITTLE DEFLATED. BERTHA’S BATTERY IS COMPLETELY FLAT. ALL ENTHUSIASME WHICH HAS BEEN RECULTIVATED AFTER THE SEAT SET BACK NOW COMPLETELY VANISHES. RIO INSIDE ASLEEP. ME SULKING IN THE HAMMOCK. GEOFF TRYING TO WORK OUT HOW LONG HIS NEW BATTERY CHARGER WIL TAKE TO CHARGE BERTHAS MAMMOTH BATTERY.
ALL IN ALL, NOT THE WAY I WAS HOPING TO SPEND THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEKEND.
MAYHAPS A GLUG WILL HELP….
Wow! Rio would love that! Looks like great fun – more than we had when we went sledging with Sharna at christmas. What does minion think?
Jul – I feel for you. I remember those interviews well. They darken my dreams from time to time. We were prepared and briefed though – non of this ghastry spontanious stuff. Makes me break out in a cold sweat just thinking of it. Though that is the kind of thing you have to do in class from time to time. When the carefully planned lesson you slaved over last night goes horribly wrong and the whole class are staring at you as if you are something they scraped off their shoe, you have to think quick – testing on the nerves I can tell you. Geoff suggests cutting your hair and frequenting the bussines world rather than joining the hippy convention. He feels that the hair may provoke a preconseption that you will doss around and do as little work as possible! hey hum – the rest sounds like fun, though i can almost hear the money pouring out of the coffers. why not go for some other jobs as well?
and Happy Birthday Dod!!!
cor blimey – I just wrote a long blog and it wouldn’t post – I managed to lose it so as my spare moment to myself is running out I’ll give you the gist. Rio and Orlando doing well. Orlando is sleeping – he’s more a night bird really, waking up around 11ish for a larg part until the small hours. I’ve taken to coming out into the sitting room and watching late night tv! Rio is active as ever – Geoff is in charge of rio sleeping now. We are trying to knock the night waking on the head – two sets of wake up calls during the night is too much for anyone. Rio is kicking a little at not having maman but is coming to terms with the fact that he gets papa or nothing.
Jul – you seem to have got it wrong again. Jumping streight in to frolicking with the local fauna when you should be teaching the populace their ABC. Plenty of time for partying when the coffers are nice and full with money pooring in at least as fast as it’s pooring out surely?!?
What’s your address? Ours is 5 Avenue Leo Ferre, 31570 Sainte Foy d’Aigrefeuille, France
Liv and Han – hope you both had/have nice birthdays – sorry about the late prezzies and no cards. Due to not having many moments to myself! hope you like the prezzies when they arrive – they will be addressed to me.
Tx
hail from sunny toulous!
Dod just set up the internet – no phone as of yet. Bit clousy today but swimmming pool in daily use with dod and Geoff taking their early morning dips. rio likes the pool too. dod is going to try and set up skype or something. well, we’ll put some photos’ on later. will compose a better message later. Han, thank you for the chocs and mags – am just of to enjoy a relaxing moment with them as rio is asleep.
solid 6:59 am on 16/07/2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
no worries!
put up some photos of the kitties! i have some paints but still havent afixed the head yet. soonest!
pinkie 10:37 am on 16/07/2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Oh yes! Let’s see some photos of the new kittens. How is Nancy coping with them? What have you called them? Are they girls or boys? What colour? Awwww cute!