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what shocked you about the class on sports day admylin?

Will have a look at that book. I didn't know the French ate so healthily. I thought they had a lot of buttery and creamy sauces and things like that. Well they are definitely thin so they must be doing something right! Will investigate your link now.

I'll go and put it in the school thread! You'll be shocked too I bet.

Saw it. Must say I am sick to death of schools these days, roll on the hols

I'm thinking Mme Lindt doesn't live in a commune and have long hair with flowers intwined in it. I see her with a glossy bob and patent leather ballerinas and a matching boxy bag. Not a jaffa cake within sight of her KS.

Lol, I was also thinking the long skirts and commune style of life are a thing of the past for MmeKindersurprise!

ooh you think she has a PAST?! Actually the word commune always brings to mind groups of naked hippies with bad haircuts

I'm sure you're not allowed to have bad haircuts in Geneva. Wonder what people do wear there. She'll need something a bit comfortable for the horn blowing club.

Lol, I just think Germany is abit like that. It's the only place you can go out with birkenstocks and hairy legs and no one bats an eye lid! (Not in Mitte of course, I am sick of seeing thin young fashion model type women walking around Mitte)

thin young fashion model type women should go to France, don't you think?

Can't quite bring myself to show hairy legs.

I know, I tried it once in south Germany - I went into town with birkis on that I usualy wore in the garden and hairy legs and rolled up jeans but I felt SO bad that I got straight back on the bus back home, didn't even manage to walk down the main street! Just wanted to try it once!

Only really see men with hairy legs these days

How is finks, have you heard from her?

I'm fine Enjoying the heat & the school hols -bbbbbllllllisssssssssssssssssss.

My garden's completely weeded over but zillions of poppies and wild flowers have appeared among the weeds, must have been there for years so am going for the wild natural look. The herb garden is buzzing with bees et al. It's a lovely sight and smell. Just came in to cool off and see how the MNers are doing.
The last 3 weeks & weekends of term were so busy, I do not know how working mums manage tbh. We've had a wonderfully lazy 1st hol week, focus on ice-cream and swimming.
Sandy did you get my last 2 mails?

We've entirely missed the football but the boys want to watch tonight and s2 has promised to paint the German colours on d's face.

Then we're off to visit my family and eat Quavers... I could get used to this holiday lark. Prepare to find me howling with indignation on August 4th when schools start again...

KS/MmeLindt - we get Jaffa cakes here, Grisson I think, and Schlecker do their own brand ones. Hadn't realised how enlightened Rheinland-Pfalz is

lifetime holiday would suit me actually. Sure I was born to be a californian surfing beach bum. Did I not respond to 2 mails? Sorry, can't believe I'm so slack.
Will have a look. Have a nasty cold today so hanging about all bleary eyed whilst h and dd are off at some "fun world" place.

Your garden sounds very romantic finks. Did you get that pipe sorted in the end?

Sandy - forgot to say, my resident geek has been upgrading my computer again and I will have no email for the foreseeable future
I always plead that I'm quite happy with old-version but he serenely assures me my computing life will be heaven on earth with new-version... Unstoppable.

wish I had a resident geek who could fix the pc, it is always so slow. Don't know what's wrong with it. Maybe dd will grow into a geek (hopeful emoticon!).

I'm online atm trying to organise our last minute (as usual) summer holiday. Everything is taking SO long to load, it's a slow slow business. H wanted to go to Florida and sold it to dd (Disneyland etc) but having read up on it, it sounds very hot, very busy, very stressful and not my cup of tea at all.

So looking into Plan B atm. H suggested Ireland but I don't fancy a lot of rain (like we had in Denmark last year). I'm hard to please I think, don't fancy queuing about in the heat all day and don't fancy being cooped up indoors with rain streaming down either.

Back to the drawing board.

so if I send you a mail now finks, you can't access it? Well let us know when your mailtool is back up, won't you?

Wish I was going to be having such a relaxing holiday this year finknottle! I'm packing at the moment for dd's week away with school and then I have to start packing our things, washing curtains, taking down curtain rails and filling the holes (I've used tooth paste in one room that I already started on!)

I'm also still at the drawing board for Houston. H told me to book a nice place for the 2nd 2 weeks but I can't find a thing, it's so mind boggling on the internet. Atleast we've agreed the first week we stay at SIL's, a whole week with no beer or wine but we can maybe sneak off!

I'll ask h when he gets back tonight admylin. He went to Texas somewhere visiting a friend who did his phD there (this was 10 years ago I think) and they drove off somewhere for a week's break. Maybe he'll know of a good place to look.

or maybe expatinscotland could recommend something if she is online atm. Isn't she from Texas admylin?

Yes, she did reassure me last night that the areas I'll be looking to stay in are atleast decent neighbourhoods. That was a worry because you just can't tell from websites if an area is really nice or if you could get shot if you go out too late at night!

are you on top of your packing/moving plans admylin and how are the dc feeling about it all these days?

H has lost his d too, did you notice? He lost it for telling me dd would have to eat flies last night. He says it is a German saying but I asked him, how did he dare say that to me - German saying or not, the cheek of it?! I was really annoyed and he has been slinking about all morning trying to ingratiate himself and in the end he has taken dd off to an indoor play centre/fun park thing.

Imagine saying someone to eat flies fgs (ie. put up with a bad situation), what is all that about? I've never heard anything like it. Wonder if that is the way they all talk to each other at work or soemthing.

I think I'm on top of all my plans and just keep saying to myself - if not I'll just have to work through the night on the last day in Berlin. We'll see how the dc feel after Tuesday and seeing their new schools. I am a bit worried about the kitchen problem in the new flat as I haven't heard from the vormieter so looks as if they've taken it with them (I bet, they are moving to Stuttgart and will be shocked at the price of flats - definately won't even get anything half the size of the Hannover flat for the same price)

Never heard that saying either, how loving eh?!

well exactly. How weird. I'm not really one for violence - aside from tennis but the thought of punching him on the nose did cross my mind I admit.

And today he is gushing all over dd. I think he needs his head sorted frankly.

Don't we all!

You know this Iranian guy was saying at tennis last week how odd it is that people play so differently to the way they look. There's this big sturdy woman there for instance who only ever hits very weak balls and he says to look at me, all fine and ladylike (! flabby more like it), you'd never think I'd slaughter those balls the way I do. It's a bit weird where it comes from but I think my frustration with H has a lot to do with it.

This guy reckons I flit across the court like a ballerina and then wham when I hit the ball, all you can do is get the hell out of the way - FAST!