Sunday 16th March

Well, the party went off somewhere else at about 2.15am only to return and wake me from sleep at about 3.30, where it didn’t quieten again until about 4.15 - wonderful! Amazingly I don’t feel too tired. So today I cleaned my room, polished, dusted (although as soon as I dust something the dust comes back), and even swept the carpet with a dustpan and brush - yep I have no hoover. I felt like I was in the dark ages or something. Then in the afternoon I had a little walk, mostly to get the smell of polish out of my nose, and stopped off at the patisserie to get some croquettes for tonight. Then, on a wim I saw a Tabac open and decided to go and see if they had an english newspaper. I have no idea what’s going on at all in Britain. They had the Daily Mail, so I bought that and spent the rest of the afternoon reading it and doing sudoku. At 7, just before the girls came round I made a fruit salad with strawberries, kiwi, banana, nectarine and mango, it looked so nice. We ate some of the fruit salad and croquettes when they arrived while we contemplated which film to watch. We finally settled on ‘When Harry met Sally’ - Grace and Liz had never seen it, and ate the rest of the fruit salad with ice-cream mush. Yep, my freezer isn’t too good! It was a good evening. When they left at 10ish - we were all felt really tired - Mary borrowing ‘Atonement’ and Grace ‘Elizabeth Town’, I started to read my last book ‘The Kite Runner’. Now I only have 6 chapters to read. I think some book borrowing is in order!