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Smallest woke me this morning by climbing into bed and saying "what day is it?" WEDNESDAY. "No try again". IT IS WEDNESDAY. "No". HOW MANY DAYS HAVE YOU BEEN AT SUMMER CAMP? "Five!" NO TWO. On Friday (his fifth day) he gets to go horse riding and I think he can't wait for Friday to arrive. Bless him. I left Small home alone while I deposited Smallest at camp. Today I met the infamous Geoffrey. He is indeed a 'Geoffrey' as he was talking to me about Dr Who. I asked him which Doctor he preferred and he told me he was a 10.5 but his friend was a 10. WHAT? Is this some kind of Dr Who code that I don't know about? He was very impressed that one of the doctors came from the same town as Smallest and I.

Back home, Small and I played a game of Disney Monopoly. He won easily. We then went into the garden and did a bit of weeding and seed distribution. I left Small again and picked up Smallest. Today he had made a Lizard that hangs on his doorknob and moves up and down. They all went to the park and played. He wants to go back tomorrow, he is loving it. He didn't mention anything about Moses or the bible today.

After lunch we cycled to swimming lessons. Each day there has been a small boy (about 3) who has been asking Smallest a question, do you like hotdogs? His sister asked did he like Barbies? Each day we have been thinking of a question to ask him. Today we asked if he liked trains and books and then Smallest gave him a Thomas the Tank book and his to sister we gave an Animal Stories book. They were very pleased.

We cycled home and had an ice cream on the porch. It started to thunder and we came inside before it started to rain really heavily. We had much thunder and much more rain and decided on another game of Disney Monopoly. This time I won (wahooo that never happens!). When the rain and thunder cleared up we went back outside and cleared some more weeds, went on the trampoline and the boys emptied my wheelbarrow (after doing Rock Paper Scissors to see who had to do it!).

Huffle came home, I harvested some vegetables and we had a 12 vegetable/seed omelette with rice and Swiss chard. Yum yum. After dinner the boys played on the Wii and Huffle rang Samsung to check on the status of the cooker. There was much raised voices, swearing and asking to speak to Managers or people in charge who could speak English and understand the problem. (Someone told me that a good trick to get a good English speaking person was to ask for a French speaker and they would put the call through to Montreal. Everyone in Montreal has to speak French and English, therefore we would definitely get an English speaking person). After Huffle spoke to various non-English people who wanted him to call a different company himself and then was cut-off, he then pretended he was French and got confused and eventually spoke to an English speaking person. Huffle informed them we were on holiday and he wanted them to come and fit it after we were back. Someone will now call Huffle to tell him when the part will be fitted. This is the part that was fitted to our old cooker that still went wrong on our new cooker. This cooker is a pile of poo. It hates to have four burners on at the same time, it doesn't like being too hot in the oven. You can't get the display wet, which includes steam which invariably gets on the display panel when the oven is hot. It cannot cope with saucepans that don't fit the burner even though we spent a fortune getting saucepans perfect for this particular cooker. Why didn't we just spend the extra money and get the gas fitted into the kitchen and we could have had a lovely gas cooker that did as it was told instead of getting itself in a huge muddle because it is far too complicated for its own good. There - rant over for today!!

 

 

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