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2004-01-17 - 1.55pm previous entry next entry Hello, hello!! Here I am in France again!! Thank you for the nice guestbook entries! I can't so easily nip over and see them while I'm writing an entry when I'm on this computer so I daren't thank people individually incase I leave someone important out! But thank you all the same! It has been soooo much fun coming here. I phoned my mummy yesterday morning to wish her happy birthday (as planned), and it was just so precious!! I listened to her talk about her presents and stuff for a while, and then eventually I asked her what she was going to do that day. She said she didn't know really. She said maybe do some gardening if the weather was nice. I said I was doing something very special today. She asked what, and I said I was going to take someone their birthday present. There's this looooong pause, and she says, "Who?" So I said, "Well, who has a birthday today?" and there's another loooooong pause, and she says, "Me." I think she twigged, but couldn't believe I would really be coming over so she didn't dare to suggest it. Then I told her I was coming over that very afternoon and the flight was all booked and me and Daddy had been keeping it a secret since Christmas, and she was all disbelieving and kept saying things like, "Here?! To see me?!?! Really?!" etc. When she finally got the picture she cried. It was so priceless. Ahhh it was lovely. She said it was the best birthday present ever! :) That was about one of the nicest feelings of my whole life, phoning Mummy with that news. Lovely. So I got myself on a train and tried not to be nervous. I prayed through my whole journey to France. I don't know why, but I've just had this sense of foreboding about my trip over, like some big accident would happen and I'd die and my mum would never recover. Silly, I know. So I prayed a lot and tried to trust God. And he was SOOOO faithful!!! That was the most easy and safe journey I ever had!! My train got me into central London and then I literally had 1 minute to wait till the next tube train, then I changed and had 30 seconds till the next one rolled in. Then at Liverpool St. station I hopped on an express train to the airport with my pre-bought tickets, and that left 5 minutes later. When I got to the airport I found my check in desk straight away and there was NO queue!! I just walked right up to the desk and got my boarding pass! Wow! Then I phoned Neil and bought water, and walked through the empty sheep-gates that are usually full of people waiting to get through security. No queue there either! No problems with security, and then I walked a million miles to my gate, where SIX other people were waiting for my flight!! There were about 30 by the time we boarded though. I waited maybe 40 minutes at the gate, during which time a camera crew arrived to film the food bar near my gate for a BAA thingy. There was only one person at the food bar so they came over and asked me and another couple if we'd mind sitting in the bar for their film thingy. So I sat and felt kind of stupid, eating my Sainsbury's crisps - which they had to ask me to hide so that viewers wouldn't be able to see that I was eating crisps from Sainsbury's!! So I'm famous. Probably. Not. Anyway, then we boarded the plane and it was a tiny one which made me nervous, but hey ho. I grabbed a window seat no problem, and we took off on time and I just sat and did some puzzles in my puzzle book, feeling like an old pro at flying which was sort of nice! It was a bit turbulent but oh well, I took anti-travel sickness pills on the express train so it was fine. The flight was one hour but we got there in 40 minutes!!! It was pouring with rain in France but we landed fine anyway. I showed my passport and walked straight out with my ONE bag (!!), and my parents had literally just walked in the door to meet me! Yay! It was so perfect. Soooo nice to say "Happy Birthday!" to my mum AND give her a hug! :) So here I am. I gave Mummy her present which was 3 books about how to make jams and jellies and pickles and all sorts of various fruit and veg preservation, because she had asked for books on that stuff. My parents just bought a field across the lane from their house, because a neighbour was selling it and they were worried someone would buy it to build a house on it. They can see the forest across that field and they didn't want a big house on that plot. So they bought it! They have already arranged for an orchard to be planted there, filling the whole field. They are going to have fruit trees - quince (!), apricots, greengages, plums, pears, apples, and ohhhh something else that I can't remember. Anyway it will be lovely. But there will be WAAAY too much fruit for them, so they will give a lot of it away to friends and neighbours like everyone seems to do around here, and make a LOT of jams and preserves! Oh cherries, that was the other one! So it is almost lunch time, and I am at the computer. Paddy is asleep on his blankie right next to me, and Mummy is over there in her lovely chair reading about jams with her feet up, and periodically uttering things like, "Mmmm!" and "Oh THAT'S how you do it!" and things like that!! Hehe. Lots of mmmms just lately. I love my mummy. Daddy is playing the piano, and he has been for about 45 mins. First it was some beautiful classical piece and now it's jazz. He just plays to relax. I love hearing Daddy play the piano. I can't remember a time in my life where that wasn't a normal part of every day in our house. So being here with this beautiful music washing over me is like.... sort of like a soothing balm because a) it's so beautiful, and b) it's kind of a childhood comfort, you know? I'm so proud of how talented my daddy is. You couldn't tell, could you?! ;) So today I slept in reeeeally late, we all did. Mummy read me a bedtime story last night!! She just wanted to. And I don't care one BIT that I'm nearly 28, I love bedtime stories. I miss Neil loads, but I will see him the day after tomorrow. Gosh that's a long time :( But I am loving being with my parents! I just wish Neil was here. I have phoned him a couple of times so far, and will phone him every day. Paddy was highly excited at my arrival and played very excitable games with me, chasing things and biting dressing gown cords like a baby kitten. He is so adorable. I spent a while cuddling him this morning before I came online. I miss Percy being here still. He was a beautiful baby cat :( Daddy is back to something classical that I can't think who composed it, not Beethoven or Mozart but someone, I was never that good at hearing music and knowing who wrote it. But it's pretty and it rises and falls and generally sounds like there's a concert pianist in the house - ahhh my daddy's so clever! :) :) :) He stops at the end of each piece and starts whistling immediately, whatever takes his fancy, and then starts playing what he was whistling. Now he's playing another jazz piece. I keep pausing in my typing to just sit back and "be here", it's so relaxing and lovely. Mummy is now saying, "Ohhh dear, there's so many things that can go wrong!" as she reads about jam! I could write about the tiny details of my parents' ramblings and mannerisms all day long, I love them so much and get to see them so infrequently that I want to just soak it alllll up while I'm here. But I'll go now. I've been online a while and I want to cuddle my baby cat some more. Will write again soon though! :) |
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