Anyone remember this wonderful piano playing and funny song by Victoria Wood?? Stumbled across it this morning, I had forgotten how wonderfully funny she is. She writes all her own music and lyrics, a very talented lady. Of course this is pretty old stuff, you’ll notice that by the hairstyles and dress sense of the audience!! Such a shame they never continued with the series she did with Julie Walters, “Wood & Walters”, it was so funny. Well enjoy the clip and let me know your thoughts.
Just love this picture of our pool, it was taken by our very first customers who stayed in our gite. I got up this morning to the most beautiful day, sun shining, clear blue skies, birds singing. The weather is sooo hot at the moment, I think we are in for a very long hot summer.
The kids are lucky this weekend as there are no customers in, so they’ve got free run of the swimming pool…They need it to cool off in this heat. Glad the weather is so good as we’ve been invited to a barbeque tonight, so looking forward to that.
A few pictures walking around the property. There are plenty of wild shrubs and flowers. I like that as it attracts butterflies and other pretty insects, all in abundance here.
It’s hard to keep the grass green in the heat of the summer. Constant watering does the trick, but there are often water restrictions when it hasn’t rained for a long time.
The kids love the outdoors, and as you can see, there’s plenty of room for them to let off steam. To the right the swimming pool, and the much used swings.
And to finish off, there’s nothing like a good old fashioned French game of “Boules”, before retiring to the terrace for a barbeque and a nice glass of red.
For those of you who enjoy the apprentice, or even those who do not, or do not know what it is, I was passed this edited video done by an amateur and it is hilarious. I wanted to post the actual video on my blog but for technical reasons, reasons beyond my control, or maybe I’m just plain dumb, I couldn’t upload the video. So here’s the link, just click on it if you want a good laugh; http://cassetteboy.wordpress.com
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!!!!
The pretty colourful flowers bowing at the suns heat, almost transparent to it’s rays. Our village is beautiful, and the sun just makes it that much better.
I found this map on Face book and was able to pin point all the places in the world that I’ve visited. Unfortunately i couldn’t copy the whole map as you needed to scroll left or right so some of the countries or cities are probably missing. When I had finished pinning, I was very surprised to see the amount of places I’ve been, 96 in total in 46 different countries!! All that thanks to working on cruise liners, notably the QE2 and the love of travel. What places have you visited and have you ever thought about compiling your own travel map…you might be surprised at the outcome…
Last nights Britain’s Got Talent results didn’t come as much of a surprise to me, and possibly not to anyone else either. Susan Boyle, the singer, was voted through by the viewers first choice, and Diversity, the dance group, by the judges. there seems to be a bit of Boyle mania going around the world and everyone’s talking about her, even here in France I heard them chatting about BGT and Susan Boyle on the radio, and that was local radio! I’m not sure if it really is singing talent that has made her so popular or if it’s more to do with, firstly the shock of hearing that voice come out of her, or secondly guilt because everybody laughed at her before she began to sing, thinking “oh, here we go, another loser!”. Personally, I liked Diversity, young, very talented and very different to any other act. Reckon they might be hard to beat come the final…
