Hi Folks,

I hope you're all having a great summer and have lovely tans by now. Of course, here in Ireland we are all bronzed too but ours is caused by rust, certainly not sunshine.

We are having a hard time in the forum now, what with Maureen being a TV Star, there's no living with her now she's so famous. Ten seconds on TV and she thinks she's a professional!

I am now all booked for Paris and can't wait, I've always wanted to visit the city and am frantically practising my French in preparation. Marie Ange had a good laugh "listening" to me one night. OK, I have to admit, I slip up sometimes on the grammar

I had a lovely bottle of wine last weekend and I managed to negate all the calories in it because I had to spend half an hour trawling through middle sprogs room to find my corkscrew. If any of you ever had any sight of the space that is laughlingly called middle sprogs bedroom you would understand that this was on a par with hacking my way through a jungle. What is it with the male species that makes them allergic to actually hanging clothes in some space other than the bedroom carpet? He is also breeding cups up there, never mind what he is actually breeding *in* the cups. There is a rumour that there is actually blue carpet below all the dirty underwear and socks. He really annoys me when he brings his "laundry" down, instead of letting me be organised and keep my washing and ironing up to date, he brings it all down to be washed at once, usually just when I have decided that I will do my own washing. This results in the house resembling a Chinese Laundry for several days and it drives me crazy. (ok....short drive...I know). I think he should have went for a teacher training course because he seems to have trained Junior exceptionally well in his art of house-keeping. So now, I am losing the battle, I let their rooms go for so long, then I make threats of chucking their beds and stuff out of their bedroom windows unless they are cleaned and NOW! Of course, what works really well with Junior is threatening to pull the plug on his internet connection, that usually makes his bedroom become magically spotless in a very short space of time. <evil Mum type cackle> Middle sprog turned twenty-one recently, but actually, I think he is five going on fifty-five. It is really nice to know that I am more talented than the males in my house. I can do something that none of them can do you know. I never knew that the art of actually changing a toilet roll instead of just setting it on top of the cistern was an act that only women could do. Told ye we were the cleverer sex, eh?

I hope you all have a wonderful summer and I hope to cross the pond next spring to visit with you all. (be afraid...be very afraid!) hehehehee

Lynda

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