September already!

Happy first of September everyone!

We're in the middle of a very relaxing Saturday. So far we've had 2 big Skype sessions with Adam's family in Newcastle, done the weekend's supermarket shopping and an awful lot of websurfing.

On that note, I think I have developed an internet addiction. I love reading blogs of other expatriate housewives, some of them make great reading. I'm also addicted to looking up recipes as we left all our cooking books in Australia. And we realised last week that the Cook & the Chef can be downloaded and watched on the internet. Fabulous! We were going to have another Cook & Chef episode today, as a Saturday treat, but the ABC website is down. Oh well, I'll try again later.

Now about our internet. Our internet (which is provided 'free' via our neighbours - the "Gs" - who are also the son & daughter-in-law of our extortinate landlord). It managed to be broken all last week. Every time I tried to log on I got an error message (in Dutch) that said there was a security problem.

It's great being married to someone who works in IT. Adam managed to get me into gmail, which was very nice, and he also found a sneaky way to log into his work system but that was for emergencies only.

And we couldn't bother the neighbours about the internet being broken because Mrs G's mother died the week before and I hear her yelling at her children every afternoon. She is wearing full black and it would have been tasteless (and a bit scary) to complain about the internet. So we waited, and waited... and to my delight, yesterday it fixed itself.

Oh dear, Edward has now developed the ability to remove his nappy. He has just trotted over and handed the offending article to me and is running around stark naked. It's good that the house has wooden floors, and that we are only renting it!

Happy September everyone, it feels like a big milestone for me as September is a whole month closer to when we go home.