Back to work

Well, I've been googling and googling to find something interesting or funny in not too complicated English and not too long, but either my heart wasn't really in it, or I just had a bad Google day, but the fact is the search was unfruitful.

So I turned to YouTube, and not much luck there either, but I did have a laugh with this lot, who are Dutch or Belgian by the looks of it. Is this how your job makes you feel? :D He does seem pretty upset at the idea of working, I must say, but I can't actually understand much of the ... er... lyrics. Can you?



On a completely different note (but same search) I found this sad story. Can you imagine having to work at 90? Apparently the poor man lost all his money in an investment or something.




So maybe working at a normal age, after the summer holidays, isn't really so bad after all. Is that possible? Well, ask me tomorrow. ;) And to all of those who started today, cheer up, the 11th is a holiday, isn't it?

It is, isn't it?

Typical English stuff

Hi everybody! I hope you're having a good end of summer. I recently came back from a couple of weeks in England with my daughter, and we had a great time.

Here are some pics:

Picture guide: photos taken in and around Chelmsford, Essex, (Springfield council estate, Great Baddow, Boreham, the River Chelmer, and a typical English breakfast minus the mushrooms), Maldon-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea. The photo from the plane shows the typical scenery of the area (=East Anglia): fields and more fields separated by hedgerows and lines of trees, with some wooded areas. Most of the fields, where they mainly grow wheat and other cereals, had already been harvested. The weather was exceptionally good for England: it only rained once (shame!), and according to the newspapers certain crops were a month ahead of their time; blackberries too, by the looks of it.


Well, as I said, hope you're all OK and enjoying the last dregs of the holidays. Me for one, in order to try and forget Tuesday the 1st, am going up to the "festes" at Sant Pol de Mar this Saturday for a bit of free rock music.

See you!

Bye bye!

I'm off to England tomorrow for a a couple of weeks. I've put my bikinis and suntan lotion away, and I'm currently taking out my winter clothes to pack them. A bit depressing actually, but on the other hand I'm looking forward to shopping, browsing in book shops and record shops, watching English telly, listening to English all around me, etc.

And there will still be lots of beach days left when I come back, I suppose.

I hope everyone's having a great summer. :)

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