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Yay for bank holiday weekends. And even better, yay for holidays meaning I only have 2 days at work this week, then day to pack and get spray painted, then WEEKEND IN SORENTO. HURRAH!

The weekend just passed tho went very well. A great mix of productivity and lazing and sleeping.
Things done included shopping (for VITAL holiday items like... shoes), cutting grass, epic Tackling Of the Bedroom which means I now have 2 huge bags worth of clothes for charity, rediscovered some things I forgot I had and DRAWER SPACE. Also, bedroom floor is now visible! Tho as the carpet is hideous this is not necessarily a good thing ;p

Yesterday was spent delivering Mother to Aunts, so they could head off on their Italian Adventure this morning, via various cousins' houses, which mostly involved drinking tea and feeding babies.
Finally saw the Teeny Twins - cousin Ciara's babies who were premature and SO TINY - 3lb each I think; now 4 months old and still only 10lbs each. So Cute! and surprisingly ginger and not AT ALL looking like Podge and Rodge. much... . But Cute!
Also saw cousin Elaine's baby, who is a bit younger than the Teeny Twins but about the size of the 2 of them together and also incredibly cute. Other sights of note included Aunt's New Kitchen, various cousins coming to see Aunt's New Kitchen; another cousin's house (hadn't been in before) and, of most interest to me, cousin Ciara's horses. And various aunts, uncles and sundry relations.
Most of the talk (when not revolving round babies, kitchens and horses) was of course about the Wedding in Sorento, mostly concerned with Who is wearing What. Wedding Outfits are big news in our family, particularly among the Aunts who go to great lengths to outdo and especially out-hat each other; they have great fun being cryptic about what they're wearing while trying to find out what everyone *else* has picked.
Plus they finally seemed to have stopped saying "You'll be next!" to me now, while thankfully not going to the extreme of the aunt on Dad's side who pronounced "Of course, you'll never marry now." a few years ago. So yay for that too!

Right, given I'm only here for 2 days this week, I should do some work!

PS on previous post, will reply to comments there later today. I wanted to wait to til the Knee-Jerk Fury reactions had died down a little so I could comment rationally!

Date: 2007-05-29 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thesme-01.livejournal.com
HAI I need your thoughts on MASONRY PAINT before I can do your weather forecast.

Date: 2007-05-29 11:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vashti.livejournal.com
I am getting alarmingly broody. It wasn't so much of a problem when I hadn't made an actual egg. I feel like a mother hen.

Date: 2007-05-29 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] being-here.livejournal.com
I still say you should have brought me as your date to stop such questions. Purely for your benefit you understand and not because I long to be in Italy at all

Date: 2007-05-29 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnillot.livejournal.com
Oh the joy of relatives poking you about marriage and children. My own dear mother has with started this awful habit of dropping "hints". Well, more like well-meaning comments like "Have you lost weight yet? You know it's easier to get pregnant if you lose weight".

Gah! What if I don't want babies yet? Just because all her friends are grandparents and every single cousin on my dad's side are married with children galore, doesn't mean _I_ want that particulr fate at this moment in time. /rant

Date: 2007-05-30 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghost-cre.livejournal.com
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