Woe betide you Molly Moppy

I can’t believe I’ve not mentioned Molly in the passages yet.

Introducing Molly the dog.

She is a cross between a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a Poodle.

This creates a rather cute teddy style dog, Maisie’s dream dog.

There’s a reason she is so cute I’m discovering.

How can you be mad at such a cute dog for...

• Destroying a box of tissues
• Destroying a toilet roll, and distributing
• Chewing all the ends off your shoe laces
• Shredding up knickers
• Weeing on the carpet in the lounge, kitchen, hallway, bathroom, bedrooms.
• Pooing (although this has stopped almost) in the same places
• Jumping at the big dog and cat to annoy at every opportunity
• Whining at 6 am in the morning
• Developing the ability to escape from her enclosure within three weeks
• Finding a way out of the garden into the neighbours garden
• Discovering the ability to exit through the cat flap

We’re all going an a summer holiday...with added teenager

Our holiday destination of choice this year was France, first to see friends in Lille, then onto the Vendee...with two teenagers and Sabrina the sat nav lady.

A driving trip with a shuttle trip to France, regrettably requires an early start. Problem one and two...the teenage girls. Genius top tip I don’t mind sharing, tell them it’s a 5.30 am start. Then, when this has sunk in, say, actually it’s only needs to be 6.30 am. We had fist pumping and whooping at the prospect of a 6.30 am start, result.

They were both up at the required time, one a little disheveled, but up. Maisie however was sat in bed doing her nails, not just doing her nails, but painting owls on them, yes owls. When this was discovered, she was chased out of bed and seemed to be getting ready. The next thing we know, she’s on Facebook playing some sort of Ville game. No concept of getting out the door in time for the start of the holiday!

Thanks to the lovely Sabrina, it was a trouble free journey, with only the smallest blip at the end doing battle with the weird oneway system with roundabouts and cyclists in Lille.

A lovely time spent in Lille as always, and I fear I may have taken the exact same photos as last year in la Piscine art gallery. Oh well, love it there and no doubt the next time I’ll take them again.

Then the journey to the Vendee, laughing al the way at the pronunciation Sabrina attempted, admittedly probably better than mine, but funny all the same.

We stayed in an F1 half way in Chartres, Maisie refused to go to the toilet (shared) stating they were a “plastic stink box of hell” not sure how she managed, oh to have a young bladder once more (probably an over-share, sorry)

At one point, there was a really strange noise emanating from Alex...”Oh that’s my sonic screwdriver” Yes, that’s always on the top of my packing list as well? 

We had a great time at the camp site, activities, swimming, reading, eating...perfect