How to have summer fun

So far summer has panned out slightly less well than expected. Take this morning for instance. It's windy, bits of cloudy, the tail end of a storm blowing out. All this in mid July. Small has had the biggest horrible fluey-cold, and now I have it, my voice husky, my throat sore, my nose rough-red. It had me checking for swine flu, but it's not, although my nose looks pretty swine ish. BF and I have fallen out enough, this time, for him to have left, for respite with friends. And this is a relief, as it happens, from what was going on before.

The gallery is ticking over but the village is agreed that this year there are just not the visitors. Meanwhile another shop has opened and 17 other holiday rental flats are being renovated, with large pool, up the road. So the place will either get much busier - good for us all - or no busier, with business stretched out between us.

Barney still has a bad leg from the dreaded grass seed, although he effects not to notice it, just plays with his latest favourite stone, digging up as much of the gravelled courtyard as he can. We still have two kittens - the boy, renamed Jasper, and sweet little Easter Cat, and their Mum.

Also we've added two teenagers - Teenage Daughter is back with her friend, and it's lovely to have them here, although they don't think so, because there is not enough to do (bar swimming in the pool/the river/cycling/hanging out/taking the bus to Narbonne, generally getting off their backsides and getting OUT THERE!), so they are forced to lounge around all day watching films, never lifting a finger, periodically raiding the fridge, Teenage Daughter complaining about lack of decent food/large town/anything really.

Meanwhile I'm languishing a bit, running the gallery where I can - yesterday I was open all afternoon and sold one postcard.

Spending - 30 euros at the supermarket

Income - 2 euros

Still no horse