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Normality that's what today is, early to rise because my wife and daughter are back in work so as is norm I have to make coffee for my wife before she goes to work, I'm not sure wheather they will be happy to go back to work after two weeks off on holidays but I'll soon find out. The guests left yesterday with a few tears but that's to be expected from my mother in law they arrived back home and she was immediately on the phone to my wife, some things don't change. We heard from our son who was on the way back to Zagreb from Germany, only another few days and he will have a short holiday and of course that includes coming home to see us, by the time we see him it'll be almost three weeks since he was home but he has a job, that pays and that's what's most important. Yesterday my wife and I were on our own as my daughter and her fiance drove our guests back to Osijek and then they went to a local swimming pool for the day, no cooking just eating leftovers from the bbq on Saturday, it was too hot to cook anyway, the afternoon was spent with me inside because of the heat 38degrees and my wife in our plastic pool, normal Sunday afternoon. The situation in Ukraine is basically the same with Ukraine loosing more of their homeland to the communist invaders but Ukraine kept up the pressure on the madmans hoard by targeting key military targets and not civilian ones, that's the difference between good and evil, democracy and dictatorship, hopefully Russia will feel the pressure being put on them because of the damage to Russian infrastructure, equipment and manpower, I'm in a way sorry for the loss of life on the russian side but there's only one person to blame, the lunatic at the top. The Olympics is going well for the Croatian competitors which is good news and who knows maybe we'll get more medals than the last Olympics. Here's a weird question, how do you know if a famous and wealthy person sends you a friend request and you accept how do you know if that person is legit, it seems to me that he looks like legit but I'm not sure, I suppose just have to trust your instinct. Well that's all for today so if you enjoyed todays blog then like,follow and share. Thank you. 

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