Holiday time!!!!!!
I'm off now to Engalnd to see all my family and old friends. See you around the 15th July. If you're off too have a good holiday!!

I am so tired today
It's hot again and I'm still recovering from the weekend. I've got to start packing too. Now I suddenly feel exhausted!

AOL 8
Dom installed it last night. It hasn't made much difference to me and seems to be slower. Rob says he's going to do a defragmentation (!) tonight to see if that helps. He's very good at these things, especially updating Norton when someone else has something important to do.

Now we've had a little rain
we have a few mosquitoes! When I first lived here I couldn't understand why people didn't have water butts in their gardens. Now I'm out with the best of them checking that water hasn't collected anywhere to provide a nursery for the little dears.

Rain... at last
This morning it rained. I just stood on the porch and watched it and smelt the garden smells. I think there is magic in the first rain after a period of hot dry weather. It's so much cooler too.

I took Olivier to buy a tennis racket and balls with the money he made yesterday. He sold his remote controle car straight off! He cannot play this morning because he doesn't want to get his new tennis balls wet. "What can I do now" is going to be all I hear for the next ten weeks. We're going to England next week to see all the family, fortunately he'll be watching Wimbledon when he gets the chance (I hope).

Second day same as the first
A little bit hotter and a little bit worse!
I'm sure that people were too hot to stay at the brocante and spend money. Anyway, we all enjoyed ourselves and even had time to sit down and eat together. In the evening I went back to help clear the park. There wasn't too much litter. My friend Françoise and I used her car to move sacks of rubbish to a collecting point. It's a little bit sad when everything is cleared away and cleaned up.

Hot Weekend
It's even hotter today. There are lots of people at the Brocante. When I arrived at seven this morning a lot of people had all ready set up. We aren't selling like we usually do. It's too hot to hang around drinking cold beer even. Repeat performance tomorrow. Predictions are it will be even hotter. I'm off for a siesta!

The Green Mile
I finally saw the film last night. I stayed awake till midnight watching it. Great! Can anyone confirm that it was written by Stephen King?

Hot again!
It's early afternoon and the temperature is 30°C. The sun hasn't got round to that wall yet. Tomorrow is the Brocante and I am helping out. I like to do the early bit so I shall go round to serve coffee from 7 o'clock in the morning. If you're near to L'Houmeau this weekend, pop by. We have dealers from Germany and England too and the 'Buvette' is run by a wonderful gang of 'girls'. It's very hard work but we really enjoy ourselves!! If it could just be a little bit cooler....

Reunion
We had a really good reunion at college yesterday evening. We met to discuss a certain class's reports. They were very positive, especially as this time last year the same class was awful. In our department behavior counts a lot as well as attitude towards other pupils, it's nice to see them 'growing up' and learning to control themselves. I was also pleased to see that some of the things I have been doing from instinct are acceptable for the over-all good of the class. I was rather lucky to work with groups of 8 or 9 this year! As there was a football tournament on at college today I only had three of four in each group. We played 'poker'! I couldn't really remember how to play but the game they showed me was more like 'Old Maid'. See what happens when you trust your insticts!