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G'day Cobber,
Thought Id start with a traditional Aussie greeting today, it seems fitting as I sit here watching an ad for 'Fosters' on TV, with the images they have here of Australia is it any wonder half the universe think we ride around on kangaroo's and call each other flaming galah's..Struth! Not to mention that Brian and I have been nicknamed 'Bruce' and 'Sheila', I kind of got used to Bruce but poor Brian is still coming to terms with Sheila…hee hee I crack myself up sometimes!
Well although the days are getting longer here and soon it will be light until 10pm, (Can you believe it doesn't get dark in Scotland until midnight?)
The weather is still cold and the rain seems to have set in again, we have had snow on a few occasions but only ever for about 10 minutes at a time much to the girls disgust!
In the news lately we've had a small earthquake, they found a missing 9 year old girl alive and the local pork farmers have been protesting against large supermarkets chains by linking arms and singing 'Stand by your ham'…I laughed but I couldn't get that song out of my heads for days!
Josh started his new job last week; he is working at a restaurant washing dishes every Sunday night. This Sunday he informed us that he might not go to work as he had had enough 'But you only just started last week''Yeah but you don't know who hard it is to have to clean up after other people for 4 hours' he says… silly me! Of course I would have no idea…what was I thinking!?! One shift and he thinks that entitles him to long service or early retirement.
Speaking of kids, the girls were invited to a birthday party yesterday (Sunday) were the parents had hired a man to provide the kids with entertainment, nothing wrong with that I hear you say…I thought so too until I realized it was a live snake show, each child got a snake to play with. On dear wasn't that a party to remember, the kids were running around screaming because they were having so much fun and the parents were running around screaming because the kids kept insisting on taking the snakes up to show them, "Look Mum", and off went mum after turning a lovely shade of white! LOL, talk about a noisy party…
I think Caitlyn has found her new calling as her and another little girl apparently broke a record by having something like 7-9 live snakes around their necks at the same time, talk about funny, she stood there smiling from ear to ear as they slithered all over her face and in her hair…and I thought I was brave having one around my neck until it kept trying to come near my face and all I could see was its tongue coming towards me so my effort was short and sweet, much better than a certain someone else that was too scared to have a go, I did promise I wouldn't mention any names so Id better stick to my word if I want to stay married.
On the way out one of the dads said to me "Oh this is probably nothing compared to all the snakes and spiders you guys have in Australia, is it? " wanting to uphold the rugged Aussie image I said in my toughest voice "Yeah these guys are only babies compared to where we come from", thank goodness he hadn't seen me scream when an escaped cockroach had come my way earlier…that may have ruined my crocodile Dundee moment well and truly!
Well things on the job front are still going slow; it appears that I didn't have much luck with my applications that I submitted. I did however decide to place an ad on a local web page advertising myself so to speak and had a couple of people interested. I had an email from a lady that was looking for a nanny for her 1 year old twin boys and wanted to meet me and then there was one from a family restaurant that was looking for a cook. I'm not sure how I would go at being a cook ( although I always thought it would be kind of fun to hit a bell and yell 'grubs up', lol ) but the family that run the restaurant sound lovely and seem to have a great sense of humour so I will keep you posted on that one..
I had a lovely weekend this weekend just gone, we all drove up/down to a place called Gloucester where Brian took the girls to look at Beatrix Potter memorabilia for the day and I met up with a pen pal (Joanne) that I had been writing/chatting over the internet from Australia. I was a bit nervous meeting her but we ended up having a lovely day shopping and having lunch, of course there were moments when I first arrived where my imagination may have run a tad wild (as it does from time to time) and I did wonder if perhaps she was a serial killer and I was her next victim, especially when we got lost in her car and she started to tell me about how Gloucester was famous years ago because of a serial killer that had murdered and buried his victims under his house, I wondered if Brian had taken her license plate number just in case and then asked her where we were going for lunch, I mean if I was going to be her next victim then be b*****ed if I was going to die on an empty stomach!
Jodi I can hear you laughing from here but you would think the same, we are peas in a pod remember.
Only 4 days to go until the school holidays and we have just finished booking our holiday. Sunday we are leaving for Paris where we will spend 4 nights and of course you can't go to Paris without taking the kids to Euro Disney, well according to our girls you can't! Once we have had our quota of frog's legs, snails and Disney princesses we are heading to Florence (Italy) where we are booked in for another 4 nights, from there we will spend our last 3 nights in Rome before heading home. Brian and I are really excited, Josh's reaction was 'But I have already been to Paris, why do I have to go again' and the girls were much the same with 'Ohhhhhh but we wanted to sleep over at Esmai's' (that's the little girl next door) in the holidays. On the bright side it doesn't take much to entertain our kids, we got a better reaction last week with a McFlurry and a drive through the car wash!
To prepare for our little trip I have whipped out the Italian phrase book and have been practicing a few simple phrases that I thought may come in handy
Canto male - I sing badly (laugh now but you just never know when this one will come in handy)
Puo darmi qualcosa per gas? - Do you have something for gas? (Well we have been living in the baked bean capital)
Sono jim brown- This is Jim brown (A good solid Aussie name)
Dove posso comprare due etti e mezzo di la cioccolata - Where can I buy half a pound of chocolates? (Self explanatory really)
Puo riparare la mia dentiera? Can you repair my dentures? (this one is purely for fun really)
Well I think that's about it, enjoy the sunshine and think of us poor things sitting on a sidewalk somewhere in Italy sipping coffee or eating fresh croissants in Paris, ahh wee wee! Diet, what diet? I hear that Italians don't mind a well rounded bottom so maybe this body will be in fashion for the first time ever!
Puo riparare la mia dentiera,
Chow Bella's
Dee xx
PS..Happy Birthday Michele x
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