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!!

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!!!