My mistress has found an internet site where she can get people to review her writing in exchange for her reviewing other people\u2019s work. The last two pieces she has come away from, she has said that the men found it difficult to write authentic sounding women. Then when my master was going away yesterday he was saying goodbye to her and was struggling to find the right words, to which she replied, \u201cat least you manage to sound like an authentic man\u201d. Fortunately, he found it funny. It has made her wonder whether her male characters work. I said, \u201cthat isn\u2019t the bit I\u2019d worry about. It is your women that seem strange!\u201d She didn\u2019t seem to appreciate that.<\/p>\n
How do teenagers get away with staying in bed for half the day? I would never be allowed to stay in bed as long as they do. One of the them is quite fussy over food. She will eat \u2018junk food and anything with a cartoon character on it.\u2019 However, given we are in Belgium, her other requirement is a little harder, she won\u2019t eat anything with \u2018foreign words on the packet\u2019. I tried arguing that here Flemish and French aren\u2019t foreign, but that didn\u2019t seem to be what she meant. I suppose it is not that different when my mistress buys things in England so that they come with the instructions in English. It is never easy to understand how a new gadget works, without having to contend with Dutch instructions into the bargain. Maybe it is time she took learning the language a bit more seriously.<\/p>\n
Sadly since the girls arrived, the sun seems to have gone into hiding, but more positively, the moles seem to be having a few days off from digging too, so it can\u2019t all be bad.<\/p>\n
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