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I'm backkk

Well after a long pause I'm back to my normal self, accident, tile layer and everything else that has happened in my life the last few days within my family and in the world. The weekend started early with my son coming home on Thursday and going back to work tonight, short but sweet, my youngest daughter and her fiance arrived last night so again for a short time it's a full house and I mean a full house which is great as my wife is going away with one of her friends today for a couple of days as we have a holiday on Monday so it's a long weekend. My son apparently will cook dinner today and tomorrow I'll cook dinner for only three as my wife won't be here and my eldest daughter will be with her fiance, wow what a strange weekend but it's better than nothing with no one here. For me it's great to be able to write again and to get back into my rhythm, I'm not going to touch on the subject of world politics or war, I'm going to try and enjoy this weekend perhaps I'll talk about that tomorrow as I will prepare everything for tomorrow's dinner this afternoon so I'll have time tomorrow morning to write which as you know I enjoy. My wife and daughter have gone to work my son and youngest daughter are still sleeping how can they sleep this late by the clock in my head, I don't know but good for them. We had a little bit of rain yesterday so the temperature is ok for now 19 and will hit a normal 31 degrees which for me is great, you can sit outside without being eaten by mosquitos which are supposed to be dead because they sprayed from an airplane but as usual it didn't work they're still here bitting you just have to put up with it. Well that's all for my first day back so if you enjoyed today's blog then like, follow and share. Thank you. 

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