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Monday, Monday, no not the song by the Mama's and Papas but the end of the weekend and the beginning of the working week, I think that there are a lot of people who hate Mondays but you have to work to pay the bills, shame. Today I'm up early as it's hard to sleep because it's 23 and humid, yesterday my son got up early for no particular reason, l as I said was outside so there was still peace and quiet, the weekend went as usual but with the exception that my eldest daughter and her fiance were going with their friends to the same place as did my wife on Saturday so they were running around getting everything ready with my daughter in charge as usual, they would be gone for the day, a few less voices to add to my headache but the rest of the tribe was still at home but I could tolerate them, my youngest daughter and her fiance went to church in the morning,at least it would be quiet for an hour. When my wife got up and finished her coffee she started to prepare dinner for those of the family who were left, when she had finished she did the dishes which I did ask if she wanted me to do them but she said no, at least I asked. Dinner was ready by twelve so my son, my future step son and I finished playing cards, my daughter set the table and we all sat down to eat, I think in a way my wife enjoys cooking Sunday lunch for us all and she's always happy when there's empty plates, my youngest daughter is always the last to finish because she can't stop talking but we're all used to that, so while she was still eating my wife was doing the dishes, the men folk of the family were doing nothing as usual, it's terrible being a man and have to watch someone else doing all the work, ha. In the afternoon they played football on the Playstation, my wife catnapping and my daughter still talking, the afternoon went as usual but with everyone indoors as it was thirty five outside and with hardly any breeze, my son decided he wanted to make brownies, so he and my wife were looking for everything that they needed but they didn't find everything so my son just improvised? It was about three and I was peckish so I sat at the table and reheated some leftovers from dinner in the microwave as I had a feeling that the brownies were not going to turn out as they should. Cooking time over not a complete success so my son was a bit disappointed but at least he tried, it was getting close to the time when everyone left, my daughter and her fiance left first because they as usual had to visit his family on the way back home to Osijek, then my son after taking a shower and getting ready to go in a shared car which he of course had to pay for which came from an app where you find people who are driving to the same place you want to go and if there's room then you go with them,he won't be home for quite a long time as he has to go to Germany to work for three weeks and then on a short holiday on the coast and then back to Germany, it's a shame that my wife and I won't see him for around two months but that's his job, if he wants to keep it then he has to go where they send him. Well it was just a case of waiting for our eldest daughter to come home but we didn't know when so I went upstairs to the sauna to lay down, a towel over my head to wipe away the sweat, a quick read and tablets then try to sleep. Well that's all for now if you enjoyed todays blog the like, follow and share. Thank you. 

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