What colours does your rainbow have?

Your rainbow is shaded blue and white.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, so today i've found out that each person has a different rainbow depending on personality and taste.  If you want to find out your very own rainbow go to http://spacefem.com/quizzes/rainbow

Jeremy is home,  still wheezy and still off school.  Ulysess is back from Stockholm, still congested but still turned up at office today.  I'm still were i was last week - home in Ogygia.  Today i went to work but the cold virus  is still plundering away in my body - today in my stomach and back.

So i will play mental escapades and float to Lago di Garda, in the north of Italy.  We visited this enchanting lake district last September.  It was cloudy but otherwise lovely, except when Julian walked off on his own and couldn't be found for an hour.  We met many friendly dogs strolling on the promenade of Aronia.  The photos show a view from the promenade and a sailor i befriended there.

Buon riposo e dolci sogni a tutt' il mondo. XX

House makeover over

The homemakeover isn't complete but it's over. Jeremy's allergy to fine dust has put flaking, smudgy walls into a wider, and possibly more realistic, perspective.

Today, Vince, the homemakeover guru, and Superman, my father-in-law, plastered, sanded and painted as much as their arms would allow until four in the afternoon. Then Mum's friend Mary arrived to help me fight the blanket of dust covering everything and everywhere.

The stairs are still a sour white and the hall a smudgy peach but they'll have to stay that way for good long while. The flaking powder blue paint of the dining room and kitchen is hardly visible anymore.

The war on dust took over five hours.

Tomorrow my son will return home.

A long week

They say a week is a long time in politics. I'm not a politician but i've found this week already too long, and it's still Thursday.

Come to think of it October has been too long. That's mostly because on most days there's been plastering, painting, and lots of dusting, sweeping, and washing paint off the things. Jane the helper, is not helping because her index finger is partly gnarled off and she's got a seven stitch rip on her hand. Her persian cat attacked her after she fed some stray cats outside her house. So i've been having to clean up on my own, unless i want to get worked up prodding the children to help. In any case, they are not home for most of the day during the week.

Last week rain soaked me to the bone on the only day i wasn't carrying my umbrella. This Monday the chill started maturing into a bad bad cold. Which turned into a bronchitis. On Wednesday, a sneezy Ulysses went to Stockholm for a work related conference. Wednesday night i took our youngest son to Emergency as he developed an allergy to the fine dust in the house. Thank God it was mild and controlled with the medication given. Thursday night I phoned up and asked Ulysses about his day. I didn't recognise his voice when he answered. Ulysses was too poorly to attend the conference so he stayed in his hotel bed today. Tomorrow he will fly back to Ogygia. My youngest son is tonigt sleeping at my in-laws and will not come home until i have exterminated the dust created by house repairs. Tonight i told Vince, the plasterer, that tomorrow house make over ends.

i'm all set for a better weekend. Hope your week was long enough for all the things you wanted to accomplish but not long enough to fit in any undesirables. How is your weeking going anyway? Do write and let me know. :)

Calypso