........smokin' in the boy's room.......

There's only 4 left in this pack!...........mind you I got them in February so I've made them last a while.

The weather was foul this morning...so foul half the staff were late for work....and the Russians were held up......so Peter and I organised breakfast for 13...without knowing where anything was!

One of our visitors had a birthday yesterday....her 40th! We gave her a chocolate cake this morning at breakfast......she insisted on cutting it and sharing.....at 8.15! I've never had chocolate cake for breakfast before!

Tomorrow afternoon...at their request....the four ladies are coming home with me...to "see an English house....with a garden".......it will be interesting to see their reaction....I remember all the things my friend Vladimir couldn't comprehend when he came to stay with us........why did we have a malinki dascha (little house) for the machina (car)?......and why didn't the machina live in the dascha?....why would you pay someone to wash the windows.......did all English houses have so many rooms?(7).......how could we have a garden at the front of the house.....and another one at the back............and why didn't we grow vegetables in the gardens........so many TV channels.......and none of them in Russian.........did we have meat to eat every day?..........why is there a machine to wash the crockery (dishwasher)...the list went on and on.

It's been 4 years since I last saw him...........but it feels like yesterday when I think about it....the funny things he used to say...like when he asked the Daughter if she drank vodka...and she told him "Yes" and showed him a bottle of blue WKD...and he took it, inspected it...and then announced "Vodka for baby!"

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