SATURDAY NIGHT AND ALL DAY SUNDAY!

Hello everybody,

 

Welcome to a beautiful day here in England.  It was a cold crisp start to the day, with frost covering everything until 10am, when the sun was warm enough to melt it. The kind of day tha is just right for Kerry and Slava to take Nadja and Ivan to Brighton for the day and to experience that very British custom of a fish and chip supper.

The above photo was taken on Saturday night, not long after arriving at the party.  From the left of the photo is Ivan, Danny, his girlfriend Salina, Kerry, Slava, Jim and Nadja.  We all had a lovely time at the party, there was a free bar and the drinks flowed continuously through till the end.  My head isn`t quite back to normal even now!

Danny and Salina

Roman was really good and slept right through the entire evening, despite countless friends and relatives having a sneaky peek at him in his pram.  For Kerry this was the first really good night out she has had since having him and she was glad of the opportunity to have a few drinks and to let her hair down, leaving Slava to do the driving and therefore to only have a couple of drinks.  His parents however were made to feel very welcome and they were soon dancing along with everyone else there.  All in all it proved to be a very good but tiring night, we eventually got to bed about 2.30am and slept like the proverbial logs!

This is the birthday cake made by Jim`s younger sister for our BIL.  She is an excellent cake maker and she always makes the family birthday, anniversary and wedding cakes, including Kerry`s.  Our BIL is a rock music fan and he was delighted with the Rolling Stones theme.

I just adore this photo of me with my two children.  It`s such a close and intimate picture of us together that I have decided to print it off and frame it.  It looks so natural.

Yesterday evening, despite being slightly hung over and very tired.  We all went out for dinner in the early evening, though we were all drinking orange juice!  Nadja and Ivan have never eaten a traditional English roast dinner and they both enjoyed it very much.  Slava has really got into translating very well and we almost forgot he was there and just kept talking to each other while we ate.  Poor Slava was the last to finish his as he spent most of the meal talking for us...lol!

After the meal they all come home with us for coffee and we were given presents from Russia. There are chocolates, and a small ceramic style picture and two very pretty ornamental cups that were made to represent the city of St.Petersburg.  We have one each and they have taken pride of place on the kitchen dresser.

Nadja told me that she liked my quarry critters and she looked at all the different ones with great interest.  Now Jim and I know what to buy her as a leaving present, We had been racking our brains trying to decide and now she has made it easy for us.

Jim is fishing today and he left at about 8.am not expecting to catch anything because of the cold weather.  At lunchtime he rang me up and told me that he`d caught first a10lb and then a 19lb carp but try as he might, he couldn`t find another person around the lake to take a photo.  He was so frustrated that he had caught his biggest fish for along time and had no record of it.  He told me it would have looked good for my journal as the fish was almost two feet long and had a big fat body and looked very impressive.  He sounded so disappointed that I really felt for him.

Well now, I must go now, but before I do, I hope you all have a lovely day and please take care.

 

 

MISTRANSLATIONS

 

Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water here.

Japanes instructions on an air-conditioner:  Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.

Car rental brochure in Tokyo:  When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigour.

Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:  English well talking;  Here speeching American.