Blogging on!!

Hi fellow bloggers

Had to respond to Ruth’s challenge, but it’s taken me a day or so to get round to it. I’ve enjoyed the blogging as a spectator sport, peering over Pete’s shoulder, mostly because we haven’t been onto the internet until way too late in the night for me to trust my brain to do anything right. I’m trying to get something down now, during the morning, and I’ll zap it out later on. Already run into trouble though as I just had to rescue a burnt-out pan with 3 rather overdone hard boiled eggs! Amy is sliding precariously round the house in my slippers and I’m thinking of putting a placard round her neck saying “I dressed myself” absolving me of all responsibility for her choice of clothing! I suppose she may turn out to be a fashion guru one day!

Last night there was a meeting for parents of kids who will start local pre-school in Sept and since Amy is eligible we decided to go and see - we have to enrol her soon to get her a place, and then we’ve got time to think about it all. Didn’t understand much, but Pete collared the Head Teacher afterwards and got some info. We’re really trying with the language but it’s hard to get enough practice in. Pete bought the Spanish version of Trivial Pursuit recently and the 4 of us spent an hilarious evening trying to work out all the questions (and pronunciation) - after about 2 hours we still hadn’t got any slices!!

Not much else of interest to report. Waiting for pay day, Pete marking exams, J&B doing ok at school (including Girl Guides on Mondays, they’re badgering us to let them take on dancing on Tuesdays, and there’s also intermittent horse riding at the weekends), I’ve so far avoided going completely mad being a home mum again, and Amy’s coming on a storm. Oh yes, and there’s the odd bottle of wine to be had cheap - which reminds me that there is one other thing of interest (to us, maybe not to anyone else!) that I nearly forgot. Last Friday evening Pete and I went round to a Spanish teacher colleague’s house - just around the corner, near the central square complete with church and bells chiming on the hour of course. She, Meity, invited staff and others to a drinks and snacks evening in honour of forthcoming marriage this Saturday. Super evening, met her fiancee, his mother (living across the road from them, good job they all get on well) her father, and of course other staff some of whom I hadn’t met before. Interesting mix of people, all speaking much better Spanish than us of course, but we did our bit and it was appreciated.

So that’s my debut blog. I’ll make it shorter next time, promise. Love y’all, Jan

PS: Pete's sent our response to your more recent blogs, but I would just like to volunteer my services to anyone who needs more frugal fare ... I can hard-boil eggs ... very hard.