Sound of Music

I have made a very useful discovery today. Ben hates the Sound of Music song. I mean the actual 'the hills are alive' sound of music song, rather than any of the other ones on there. Somehow I've missed this before, but it's going to come into play whenever I'm feeling annoying now!!
Sorry for the very random post, but I think its quite funny!! Why hate that song? He could at least hate the 'Climb Every Mountain' one which is, due to a very VERY warbly voice, quite aggravating!
One more Sound of Music comment: has anyone seen about that new Pauline Quirke drama, Von Trapped? Its about a woman obsessed with the Sound of Music. I'll be watching it!
Anyway - so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu!
(Sorry. Had to be done.)

Home Sweet Home

Well, we're back! We arrived home at midnight last night - 1 o'clock for us - but its alright because I slept until 11:15 this morning to make up!
It's really weird being back actually, and not having to speak French any more. I swear my vocabulary has all but doubled in the last 3 weeks. For example, thanks to many trips to various chateaux I now know what 'dix-septieme siecle' means. I'm sure it'll be very useful!
Anyway, we had a lovely time. We have a really nice caravan complete with oven, microwave, bathroom, etc so its not exactly a struggle to survive. It rained quite often, but that was only to be expected, although the golf-ball sized hailstones (and I'm not exaggerating) were pretty scary. We had some really nice sunny days too though, and spent quite a lot of time near the campsite pool.
Ben did lots of fishing and bought lots of fishing equipment so he's happy, Mum stocked up all her cupboards so she's happy and I got 2 really nice new skirts so I'm happy. And Dad bought most of it, so he's possibly not quite so happy.
We also went places, visited some really pretty towns; one day we went to a Medieval Fete which was fun - there was this really interesting stall with about 30 different instruments of torture...
We came back to the news that one of our guinea pigs had died, which is sad, but she was a bit ill so at least she's not suffering any longer. We've got 2 left now, but they're both old and Amber's skin is looking sore and she's lost a lot of hair so I'm watching them carefully. They've had a good life.
I've got a week now before school starts, its really scary to think that I'll be in the top year, we can boss everyone else around!
But now I've got to go and empty the dishwasher, joy of joys, so do comment and tell me what you've all been up to this summer!

Quick Check-in

Well, I'll catch up quickly before we go off again tomorrow - at 3am, AGAIN - to France this time.
We had a really nice week in Poland. They have all these little nicknack stores and the stuff on them is really really cheap, which is cool. I bought 3 new bags and 2 new pairs of sandals - although the sandals were more of a necessity, really, because my feet were slowly being ripped to shreds in my old ones. I also got some really nice jewellery; a ring and 2 necklaces.
We were going round some unpronouncable town one day when we came to this stall selling DVDs. They were pretty much definitely pirated, but they're good quality pirated, and Dad bought Spiderman 2 for 5 pounds, which I think is pretty lucky because I'd been planning to go to the cinema and see it for that amount! Our Uncle Tom, who was there as well, bought Troy, so I stole it off him and watched it on Dad's laptop because that was another I hadn't got around to seeing in the cinema. Only that one showed more that it was a dodgy copy, because at the beginning when they have the brief history thing (which I presume when you have it on the English setting should be in English) it was all in French. Which was weird.
Anyway, the meetings were good too, but very loud. The Poles don't seem to be able to manage quiet worship. But hey, its fun.
So that was last week, and then next week we're at Euronet France, then on holiday for 2 more weeks. I don't know when I'll be able to post again, if I can I'll try on Dad's laptop, but au revoir for now! (See - I'm in French mode already!!!)