Secret Diary 6/7/01

[Guest guest]

We actually got back yesterday so in true postcard style this weeks

arrives home after I do!!!

> Dear Granny and Grandad,

> We're having a lovely time in Spain. The journey over here was

really

> good fun although Mummy and Daddy did have a bit of an argument over

> which way up the map should be and so it was a bit quiet in the car

> because they weren't speaking to each other.

> The mobile home is lovely. Mummy and Daddy have their own bedroom

and

> we are all sharing one which means we can have midnight feasts and

> dawn pillow fights. Mummy keeps telling Daddy that we can't

possibly

> keep this up and he will get a lie-in soon. He has tried putting

> blackout curtains over the windows so we don't get up too early but

> Kieran has worked out how to open these so we wake up when the sun

> does.

> If Mummy and Daddy didn't spend all evening drinking wine and went

to

> bed at a sensible time then they wouldn't be so tired in the

mornings

> would they? After all its our holiday and they are only here to

make

> sure we are happy.

> Daddy is being very mean. He keeps telling us that he's not made of

> money and we are not allowed more than one ice cream a day. Mummy

won

> 't let Emma buy the big stuffed donkey with the straw hat that we

> think is really cool and would be a lovely thing to bring home as a

> sewveneer. She says its nearly as tasteless as that bowl you gave

her

> when you came home from holidays last time but we're not allowed to

> tell you that.

> We are getting very good with our Spanish. Mummy lets us go and buy

> the bread every morning with our potatoes (that's Spanish money) so

> long as we all stay together and hurry back.

> Actually, it's a bit confusing cos Daddy says to take the long way

> round and take as long as we like so he can try to go back to sleep.

> But we're sure he's joking, how can anyone want to sleep on holiday?

> The best part about where we are staying is the enormous swimming

> pool. There are loads of places to hide so we take it in turns to

> disappear. This makes sure that Mummy and Daddy can't just lie

around

> being boring and have to run around the pool making sure we are not

> drownded at the bottom.

> When we get bored with that game, Carys takes her clothes off and

> throws them into the deep end and Mummy has to dive in for them.

This

> is good fun too.

> The food here is really awful. Kieran is upset because they don't

> have peanut butter and proper sausages. Mummy seems to have

forgotten

> that we don't like food and keeps giving us this thing called

> Pie-Ella. She keeps telling us that the Mediterranean Diet is

really

> healthy and we will all live to be a hundred. Daddy says you don't

> actually live longer, it just feels like it.

> Anyway, we've found a way to cope with Pie-Ella. We all leave the

> yukky fishy bits, Emma eats the rice, Kieran eats the chicken and

> Carys flicks the peas around.

> Sometimes Daddy does barbecuing and that's worse because he always

> takes ages to get the barbecue going and then he burns the sausages

> and pretends that they are a new type of cooking called chargrilled.

> Tonight Mummy and Daddy are going out for dinner and we have Becky

the

> courier coming to babysit. We like Becky, she tells us lots of

ghost

> stories and then we have nightmares and Mummy has to get up and look

> after us and then she tells Daddy off because he doesn't get up and

> its her holiday too.

> Still, she looks very happy in her new dress - I don't think we'll

> tell her that she's just sat on some peas that Carys flicked onto

the

> chair earlier. Daddy is being all kissy with her and we've just

> heard him telling her to get ready for some passion later. This

sounds

> like another midnight feast so we've set the travel alarm.

> Well, we must go now, Granny and Grandad. We wish you were here but

> Mummy says over her dead body. Lots of love, from Emma, Kieran and

> Carys.

>

>

> Lesley

> ANT, tr BFC, Mother, Wife, Friend, Mender of Broken Hearts,

> Keeper of Secrets, Chauffeur, Cook, Maid, Writer. Overweight, Over

> thirty, Over here in Worthing..

> " Believing Oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional

> mind! " Star Trek.

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