Monday, 23 June 2014
Gone to the Dogs!
Somehow managed to book into one of the most ordinary airport hotels in Sydney... horrible restaurant and so we went searching for somewhere to eat. Can't believe we ended up in the Rowers Club. Had some fun trying to bet on the dogs.... have to say we hadn't a clue!
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Mayhem, Mayarra and Margheritas
Thank goodness we didn’t exchange
with the family, with four teenagers I think as I haul another bed bag along
the corridor. Though their house in
Vienna sounded fantastic! Getting ready
for an exchange is always a trauma no matter how organised we try to be. My mantra of “Well its great to fix
everything up and have a clear out once a year.” is wearing a little thin.
I huff and puff as I organise bed
bags: Two each for Maria and her daughter from Barcelona; Two for Patricia and
James from London; Two each for our guests in the Garden Room and Verandah
rooms.
I count off the bed sets…Two
large coloured bath towels; two medium white towels; two hand towels; two face
cloths; two quilt covers; two white pillow cases; two coloured pillow
cases.
Happily I’m constantly
interrupted by phone calls, emails, visitors… but it does mean that I keep
forgetting what I’ve done. I open the
bed bags again, now which type of towel did I put in there… No a clue! It is with such banalities that our 2014
adventures begin.
Mayara comes bouncing through the
door. “Allo Julie and Roger. Ow
Arrrr you? She rolls her R’s and
her eyes as she looks around at our futile efforts to achieve so order. But eventually
the three of us get it together.
We laugh and joke, don our new
Ivanhoe House aprons, pose for the obligatory photo and then its time for farewells. Mayara is a Brazilian Engineering student ,
here to learn English. She has been
cleaning the B & B rooms ever since I returned form England with my very
painful broken ribs. She’s been wonderful and we’re so going to miss her when
she returns to Brazil in August.
She always arrives in a flurry of
smiles and tales. Over the past few
months we have lived through the trials and tribulations of being a nanny to
spoilt, rich children. “Oh My God Julie,
I lost one of them!” The joys of finding
a share house; the funny stories of working in restaurants, bars and
clubs.
Her constant refrains…“What time
the guests be there? “
“I get the bus, I go there soon.”
“Oh I have such a hangover, only
three hours sleep… so bad”
But no matter what, turn up she
did. Always a new idea to make the B
& B better. Cheers Mayara… see you
in Brazil!
Thursday, 5 June 2014
More than a wink
Looks like Abbott's wink is here to stay... but FIFA makes an appearance in the cartoons this week!
Roger's Big Bake Off
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