Tuesday June12th

This is the start of a short week at work and a very quiet one. The building work in the office is finishing up and at last the kitchen area is all but complete so we can get tea's and coffee's. The coffee bar downstairs though has some very attractive waitresses and is a welcome distraction.

We seem to be heading there each morning...wonder why? Coffee is pretty good I suppose and the service is execellent. Prices are pretty good, $7.50 (around 3quid) and you get 2 eggs 4 slices of bacon on bread cooked exactly as you ask and a coffee. I think my stomach is getting bigger, the food here is excellent and plenty of it. Even walking into the train staion you can smell all the different foods as you walk by. You are starving by the time you get on the train.

Kerry has been very subdued at home this week again, but we find the local swimming pool and we enquire about the swimming lessons for the girls. They perform an assessment of them and are then told that on the 2nd July we will need to call at 5.30 am to try and get them into the classes as they get booked very quickly. (it is the second July as this is the end of term)

There are 3 indoor pools and several outdoor ones, including a huge waterslide which is open in the summer. It has turned quite chilly now and temperatures at night are into the single figures and daytime is around 14 degrees but is now feeling colder.