Helper

Miss Sunshine has started to help us with different things:

Do the dishes... It's...wet. Surprise, surprise! But it's fun. :-)

Gardening.... Even more fun, especially when you mix water and dirt...

Casque

Miss Sunshine a un nouveau casque. Et un nouveau porte bébé. Et elle aime le deux roux. La vitesse, les cheveux dans le vent. C'est magnifique, formidable, super et encore super!

Malmö

Here we are again, this time in Malmö, my lovely home town. It greeted us with great weather, 26 degrees Celsius and no wind. Summer! That changed yesterday. The sun is still here but the wind is back, the chilly wind we have here in the south. Summer was short this year... Just kidding, this was only the beginning, the real summer arrives later. Around July, hopefully... Until then we are prepared for everything - rain, hail, storm, snow...

That is, however, nothing compared to the weather in other parts of the world. Last week's news were filled with reports from Burma after the tornado. Tonight I saw the horrible and sad pictures from the area hit by the earthquake yesterday in China. I realize how lucky I have been growing up in a part of the world where the catastrophes are few. But who knows, with the climate changing it might happen here as well in a near future.

Well, back again to Malmö and our way back to tranquility. The trip back went well. 13,5 hours drive, not included breaks, Paris - Malmö via Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Denmark. Miss Sunshine had fever the whole way, and since it was her third day with fever we went straight to the doctor on arriving to Malmö. Of course she got better as soon as we entered the doors to the doctor...

The worse thing on the road are the lorries
which persist to overtake other lorries.
They block the whole traffic!!!
And for what?
Arriving one minute earlier than if they hadn't?!

Saturday night we went to V:s birthday's party. Lots of good wine, straight from France, and good food, and great company. Laughing, singing, dancing... Sunday was picnic day with really old friends. Real pros - they had chairs, tables, and parasols with them. We had blankets and sat in the shadow... We've got a lot to learn... ;-)

We tried archery Sunday.
That was fun. But difficult. Not my future sport.

Monsieur is leaving us on Thursday for 1,5 months. We have decided not to think about it. This will not make it easier on Thursday, but it makes it easier for the moment. Miss Sunshine is close to her dad's heels all the time. I think she knows that he's soon leaving. Children are not stupid, they sense things straight away. Well, well, 1,5 months pass quickly. And we always have Skype. It makes it a lot easier. But not easy.

Fishy

Had a barbecue last night. It was lovely. We had fish. Dorades in French, don't know the name in English. Should look it up but I am lazy. I think it is something similar. Here they are anyway:

Miss Sunshine was ill, but could help her father barbecue. You know, barbecuing is a serious business. Don't disturb the ones who are in charge - they might give you the evil eye...

Miss Sunshine, far away from her normal "sunshiny" self.
Well, high fever can break anyone down.

Finally the fish were ready. Four huge ones for five persons. Perfect! A nice white wine to that and an extremely tasty Terrine de chocolat truffée à la fraise for dessert. Can it be better???

We are now preparing for leaving France and heading north to Malmö and Sweden. The weather is outstanding, both here in France and in Malmö. Summer already in May? Hmm, there's something fishy going on. Climate change big time. But, hey, after a long, dreadful autumn and winter, the Swedes are worth it. We, howevere, have been in Spain and have had nice weather most of the time, so we can't complain. Anyway, we are leaving tonight if not Miss Sunshine's fever rises. If so, we have to wait til tomorrow. But on Saturday we have to be in Sweden, because we have the wine for the party we are invited to....

Raclette meltdown

For the first time ever I had raclette outside in the garden in the sun. It was great! Different, but great. I mean, I love raclette so how could it ever be wrong, eventhough it is mostly connected to winter and snow in the Alps? Monsieur's cousins K and M with families came over for lunch and raclette was what we were having. Meanwhile, Monsieur and his father started their journey from Spain...which abruptly ended on the French side of the border when Monsieur's Super Cinq broke down. They are now in a hotel and will be knocking on the port of the garage first thing in the morning. I am sooo glad that I am not with them.

La famille rigolo n'est plus en Espagne... ;-)

Just a quick Hi!!! from us. Miss Sunshine has now left Spain with her mum while her dad is putting the apartment in El Saler in boxes for further transportation down the stairs, in to the two cars and up to France and Sweden. Meanwhile we are hiding out in La Fayel, about 40 minutes outside Paris, at monsieur's mum's place. It's okey, but I am longing for continue the trip up to Sweden and my apartment.

Leaving Spain was harder than I thought. I was actually a little bit sad. But hey, Spain isn't going anywhere, so if we want to we can always go back. And packing up my bag, and Miss Sunshine's, wasn't easy. Suddenly the dog started to bark hysterically and she didn't stop. I wondered what it was, and see, it was a man hanging outside our kitchen window! See picture to the left. Well, wasn't that a surprise?! They are installing gas in the building. I am quite happy that we will not be there while they are doing it. I mean, we already had electricity in the shower, so I can only imaging the big bang the gas installation will be...

Well, Miss Sunshine helped me packing, which didn't really help me. But then again I cannot be helped. No one can help me, I am a catastrophy when it comes to packing a bag. It's impossible for me to do it. I have to, and I do it, but I hate every single second of it. And this time I manage to forget som essential things, like my camera. Buhu! But I borrowed a camera to be able to show this picture of miss Sunshine with her new t-shirt that her grandmother gave her when we arrived:

Perfect, don't you agree? :-) Well, we will be back soon again. Take care, all of you!