Wednesday 6th February

Salad Girl came home from a whole day’s work at school and promptly started dusting and hoovering.  WHY? …”because the cleaner is coming tomorrow” and we have to make sure that the house is in a fit state to be cleaned!!!!! It’s absolutely unbelievable that we all have to run around making sure things are “put away”……..as we all got shouted at it was suggested that the only thing that needed to be “put away” was “her”.

We had further discussion about internet security this evening……”she that thinks we should be cleaning the house” stated that the main reason we need to be careful about using our personal names on this blog is because it is read “all over the world” and is looked at by people on the other side of the globe. It occurred to the boys around the table that maybe we should be slightly more concerned about people in other Parishes who might be able to work out who we are…..and then of course we realised that names didn’t matter as there can only be one family as nuts as us……and a 3 year old could probably work out where we lived.

We are worried……the Chief Engineer announced while we were eating supper that he has bought a drill. Under normal circumstances (and for normal people) this would be good news, but we know better……we hardly dared ask why. Apparently he has already been outside drilling holes in “stuff” and testing out the whole range of bits that came in the box. This puts a whole new meaning on the phrase “It’s going to be really useful to do things with”…….do we dare leave the house unattended tomorrow?

Fireman Sam actually got to put out a real fire today……I know that might sound stupid, but it doesn’t happen all that often. With breathing apparatus donned, he entered the building first and, after climbing the stairs, entered the burning room and extinguished the blaze….well done him and all the crew. A good day’s work…..especially after running drills all morning at La Collette. For those of you who don’t talk “firestation” then let’s run through a few shortcuts of “fireman speak”…..AFA = Automatic Fair Alarm, Pump = Fire Engine, Shout = Emergency Callout, Persons Reported = when a call comes in to say that there’s a fire and persons are reported in the building, BA = Breathing Apparatus, ALP = Aerial Ladder Platform……so if you get called to a shout in your pump after an AFA and Persons Reported, you could end up at the top of the ALP wearing your BA ……after you’re finished the two words you need to hear are TU…………tea’s up!!!

We were going to write a story about our extended family this evening, and specifically about “Lorry Van Stormin’ Norman”…..but trying to write something amusing about a female agricultural student from St. Martin who gets abducted by a St. Ouenais isn’t that easy….well actually that’s not true……we just made up so many jokes we couldn’t decide which ones to put on the blog…….

Finally, after 6 months of trying to get the dog to jump into the car on her own, we have finally worked out how to do it……..just make that noise that sounds like to cat is sitting in the boot of the car…….the dog comes belting out of the kitchen, and takes an almighty bound over the wall and leaps straight into the boot……after the walk, you might sound stupid standing in the middle of Grouville car park making a sound like a demented cat….but hey, the dog’s in the car!!

More tomorrow.