We have guests.

Lila and Joey moved in Saturday afternoon and they ain’t goin’ nowhere. Their mummy and daddy have gone to Corsica. No particular reason, just GET AWAYYYYY!!!! And why not. They deserve it. So they say. And its educational for the children to spend time with grandparents. To learn the consequences of sugar overload. To realise that if you make enough fuss, you NEVER have to go to bed. That doing ‘grown up’ jigsaw puzzles til 11.30 at night is cool (Lila) and that breaking things gets results (Jo-jo). That there are places in the world where the word ‘NO’ simply doesn’t exist. Where anything goes, and you’ll get all the help you need doing it. And so for 5 days, we are a unit. Just the four of us. With all the help we can get.

And yet the kids are good. They’ve been trained in the same school of no-nonsense strictness that I attended. My daughter’s. Though we do offer a degree of ‘flexibility’ that is possibly lacking in their house. Like the other day when Joey offered to drive Mel’s car from the driveway to the street so the gardener could cut the hedges. I had no problem with that; its not my car. And there’s plenty of states in America where you’re allowed to drive at 3. Well, 15, 16, 3, what’s the difference? I did help him. Mainly because he can’t reach the peddles. And his steering was a bit erratic. Though Mel’s car’s used to that.

So five days of ‘full-on’ is upon us. And its wonderful. Exhausting, but wonderful.

Nick Kyrgios battled valiantly against Novak Djokovic in yesterday’s final, but alas, in the battle of the ‘most hateds’, Novak once again showed that he can win that battle against anyone. Particularly as I learned only the other day that petulant, aggressive, rude, vile, spitting, swearing, nasty-man Kyrgios is a ‘life long Spurs fan’. And as I learned that a virtual halo appeared upon his ‘in my head’ image and will stay there forevermore. The man is to be respected. He’s a brother.

Ok, we’re in an ‘early to bed, ridiculously early to rise’ routine at present, so if you see me out anywhere, just wake me up, I’ll be fine.

Happy Monday

A xxxx