We had an interesting day waiting for our first guests yesterday. Neither of the 2 mobile numbers they'd given me appeared to be working, so by about 16.00 I was starting to get nervous. I'd bought them a bunch of flowers and a bottle of wine as a welcome present, so it would have been very disappointing if they'd not showed.
I'd also made a sheet with instructions for all the kitchen equipment and hung it behind the door, and while I was round at the flat putting this up on the wall, they phoned to say they'd arrived.
Very nice family, our age with a 15 yr old girl and 10 yr old boy, half Danish half Spanish/American, so very similar type of mixed family to us.
This morning they called to say they couldn't get the washing machine to work. Despite my instruction sheet they hadn't worked out that they needed to push the programme button in before turning it to the programme. I will be making stickers to put on the machine this week ;o)
Apart from that they seemed settled and happy. The kids were installed on the settee watching DVDs.... guess which....?
Friends, of course! Proven ideal holiday viewing for teenagers!
Spent an enjoyable 8 hours or so watching Live 8 yesterday and thinking of Jane down at the Eden project watching the world music and slumming it with Angelina Jolie... I thought the whole event was a huge success, similar to Live Aid in structure but bigger and more spectacular, although of course the original had Freddie Mercury so
can never be improved on. My favourite acts were Black-Eyed Peas and the Scissor Sisters, who put on great shows. It was good to see the oldie acts, like the Who, Pink Floyd and Paul McCartney, but the music was rather over-familiar. The exception to this was Annie Lennox, whose voice seems to improve with age. Amazing performance and powerful speech.
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