Monday 17 April

Well it has been a wonderful wonderful relaxing weekend. For us anyway, I think our flat mates had a pretty big four days ;)

Last Sunday we went to see Luke and Belinda for dinner, it was a delicious home cooked meal. We set about planning our weekend away to Paris, but more about that another day...... ;)

After a stella performance in the semi finals it was very unfortunate that we were able to repeat it. Yes we lost our GF, disappointing but has left us keen for the next season. One can only hope that the umpires will be a little better in the summer. So that leaves the next few tuesday nights free.... what to do, what to do? maybe some ssssaaaalllsa!

The rest of the week was spent by everyone doing the same thing, counting down to the long weekend.

It arrived, we spent most of the weekend doing absolutely nothing. Although we did buy a telly, consequently after buying the telly (2nd hand of course courtesy of www.gumtree.com) we discovered that our room is the centre of our little concrete house with very minimal reception. What is funny is that i can be quite happily be watching tv, with perfect reception, then duncan walks into the room and completely disrupts the reception. Or we would be watching telly and duncan would be trying to do a gallery and he would lift the lid of the laptop, and we would lose the picture. On the otherhand, if i took the laptop and opened it it would be fine. Even on occasions the reception would go if dunc crossed is feet in bed ha ha :) We seem to have it optimally arranged at the moment though. It is nice, even though we get along with everyone in our house, it is nice to have the ability just to disappear into our room.

As i mentioned before our housemates had a big weekend. Due to the fact that we have lots of holidays coming up over the next few weeks, we were saving our pences, which did mean that we had the house to ourselves a lot of the time..... wonderful and peaceful.

Saturday we cleaned our room, and rearranged the furniture, since we got back from Nannies we have soooo much stuff. We need a set of shelves to store stuff. We will have to Argos it on the next shopping trip.

On Sunday Warren the Easter Squirrel, visited us both, and spoilt us rotten, I have to say after looking forward to chocolate, after not having it so long i didn't really want it. Oh well i will have to take one for the team and give it my best go. Later that morning we went to church, and our flatmates went to church. Ours was a slightly boring, and very noisy (children!!) but a sweet little country parish. Theirs was a rowdy pub, with sawdust on the floor to soak up the spilt drinks, where they had to start queuing at 10:00am for doors opening at midday.

Today the weather has been lovely, a perfect morning for a jog and some fresh air. Yes the sun was shining. We spent the morning putting up and pulling down tents (the house has a few and we wanted to know which ones had all the bits and were not smelly), as we are taking one of them to Rome with us in a few weeks. In the afternoon we had a quiet little bbq to mourn the passing of this wonderful four days off.

Well at least we only have three days at work this weekend, because we are going to Belgium (Bruges) for the weekend. Belgium beer, and a little bit of chocolate. woooohoooooo!!!!!

You should find a some new galleries up yay!!! we have one more to do and we should be up to date. Then we will start to inundate you with travelling photos

Tot Ziens

Gemma