Lost in the blog (with apologies to Edmund)

What a lot of blogs! Easy to get lost, eh? Don’t log on for a few days and it’s the London bus story all over. Nice to see Cathy on board and Barbara too. Are we complete? The more the merrier, but with so many London buses one could miss a few!

Getting braodband installed tomorrow, so life should be easier from then on and I won’t have to keep the kids off their webmail sites. It seems communication is just oh soooo important to modern 11 and 12 year olds.

Also may go and have a look at some old shacks in the next few weeks, mainly for fun, but there are some good places still available around if either you don’t want land with your house, or you don’t want a house with your land. In between is a bit difficult eversince the Germans laid their towels all over the Guadalest valley because the English had bought up the beach. There are a few Spaniards around too, especially now as August is the holiday month and nothing gets done but beach bathing by the rich from Madrid. And we have to live here all year. Tut, tut; typical. No rain, temperatures of 51 in the shade and only azure sea water to cool off in. Sometimes I forget I’m unemployed till next month.

Hey, Nic, great idea. Emelda’s shoes will be a perfect fit for our Cinders as she is just into size 23. That’s a really kind offer and we’ll take anything that you can fit in the cases! I take it you are not going for a coxed four then?

My big girls always enjoy a bouncy castle, but won’t it detract from the grounds that we are being escorted around!? They like puppets too, but give them a new phone and they’d be happy as Larry for a few hours. Amy is just going to have such a ball that she won’t mind what there is. Jess and Beth are great with her and will probably do a bit of baby-minding on the day by nature of their playfulness with little people.

Mum, I hope you keep on the crêpes, so to speak. You can’t beat vanilla ice cream and cinnamon. That would appeal to Dad too by the sounds of it! Personally we’re on a fitness campaign - eating right, working out and generally taking control of the runaway train. Hopefully we have the will power to make a change by the time we blow our diets in October!

‘Abcess makes the jaw grow tender’ as they say. Hope everyone is feeling better!

Love to all, Pete and Jan