Argh, TOO bright!!

Hey guys!

The ice-rink closed last week, and the weather has been terrible since, so I haven’t much new news. I’m hoping to get out fishing sometime soon, today would have been perfect, but alas, it is Monday :-P.
Sorry guys, I wrote that section on Monday, and then changed over to doing some French :-P… Let me start over :-P.

Yesterday morning my mom came into my room, walked to the windows and threw open the French shutters. The sun streamed through, I moaned and mumbled “Argh, TOO bright!!”…. Then I realised that the weather was finally back to normal! So I flopped out onto the section of bed that had a sun-patch on it, and said “Ooh! Sun! Sun!!!”… Yes, you appreciate it much more once you’re completely awake :-P.

Today my mom and I have been working on flattening out the sand for the pool to be placed on. Oooh yes! Don’t think that I’ve told you, never mind the first problems we had with the pool, a few weeks ago we found out that we had to move the pool off the patio! “Soooommmmebody” (I put this “soooommmebody” into inverted commas because… I honestly don’t know who built it :-P) hadn’t built it correctly… and therefore it wasn’t strong enough :-(…

Anyhow, a few weeks later, three tonnes of sand, a few concrete bricks, a lot of muscle pain from moving the sand, and a lot more water later, we were done! Joy! We just finished it today, and it looks brilliant! So looking forward to going for a dip soon.

I’m truly looking forward to the summer, all of the fruit in the garden will be in bloom, the sun will be on duty 16/7 :-P and of course, the outdoor pool will be open! I think it’s absolutely brilliant, well it looks like it anyway on the website! I’ve wanted to go just to the indoor one recently, but haven’t found myself going :-S. So guess I’ll just wait :-P.

The downside to summer here… and any hot country I guess, is the mozzies! The other night one of the mosquito’s had an all you can eat buffet on my back… and my wrist! Absolutely horrible and itchy! And another problem here are the “aliens”. I have told you about these awful insects that I named “aliens” before (Blog Name -There's an ALIEN in my tea-cup!), we got them in Sicily, and they just can’t seem to leave us alone… well leave my sister alone more like, she’s been “attacked” uncountable times in the past week, one crawling across her arm, another, scurrying up her leg!... Blurgh!

Oh! My grandmother’s come over to stay with us from England, woo! ^_^ She’s not like a normal grandmother… She’s really cool… not that normal grandmother’s aren’t cool, but Karen’s different ^_^. Anyway, I call her “Karen”… I never really got the “Granny” thing. It just sounds strange and makes Karen feel old (which she’s not) :-P. Also with my uncles and aunts, sometimes I guess I’ll say “Uncle Rino”… no, maybe not :-S, :-P.

We have a baguette lady! Can’t get anymore French than that! Yes, so she comes everyday… except Monday /:-S, and delivers our daily “flute”. Like a baguette but larger. It’s pretty darn awesome! And always super fresh and soft! Mmmm!

Ooh! Has anyone watched “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer”? I know it’s a random question, but since we have a shortage of English speaking films in France and there is only so many times that I can watch “Arthur and the Minimoys”, a friend of my dad’s has leant us the complete series of “Buffy” and they’re surprisingly good :-P!

Okay, since I’m telling you about the weather, my grandmother, the baguette lady and… what I’ve been watching on T.V. lately, I think it’s time to stop boring you :-P.

So I shall talk soon, or at least once I have more news :-P.

- Bianca