Well ! Here we are!!! Guernville CA-after all we said about not coming back

This is all I could write whilst we were in Guernville .. not the best of connections!!

Summer Holiday!!

I was suddenly reminded of a song from the 60's .... Sir Cliff Richard, Summer Holiday (it's a movie AND a song)

We're all going on a summer holiday,
No more working for a week or two.
Sun and laughter on a summer holiday,
Will make your dreans come true! For a week or two!

OK, Its not Irving Berlin

Not complaining .... it is H O T!!! 98 degrees at 6.30pm

And then .... 2 days later ...... humid, humid, humid. Not to worry. Spectacular lightening in the mountains last night. Spots of rain today just to spite me after doing my usual wash down this morning. Rain in the desert is not pretty .... I needn't have bothered getting the car cleaned. Moan, moan!!!!

This weekend is the final hurrah for the season for us. Full, full, full. I can't say why or what event is happening but we are one of the local 'overflow' hotels!!!!! (Strict instructions!).

We are getting ready for our vacation leaving here Thursday 19th . Dennis AJ and Patrick move in on Wednesday. We drive north Thursday morning spending the night at Harris Ranch then continuing up to Guernville Friday morning.  Dore alley 29th!!!!!! Woooh hooh!

July 4th, 2012

Whoever thought of putting July 4th on a Wednesday needs shooting with a musket!! Anyway, what started off as mediocre reservations turned into  'not too bad', ending up 80% full last night with some people staying over the weekend and new arrivals today! Hoorah!!!!!! Most people staying are from California but we also have visitors from Vancouver, New York and Salt Lake City. The cross was put to good use!

We had our usual great view of the Palm Springs fireworks display from the balconey except this year we had the least number of people up there with us!!! Anyway, we oooohed and aaaahed as usual. Great show Palm Springs!!!!!

Trees get a trim

It's that time of year when the palm trees get their annual haircut. Here are the 'before' and 'after' pictures. Our nephew Nat used to call palm trees 'hairy trees' when he was about 4 or 5 visiting us in North Hollywood. Now he's 18 and all grown up doing dangerous things on skateboards or scooters! In fact he is featured in Scoot Nation Magazine, scoot-nation.com. Who knew???? Anyway, there he is, page 82,  Nat Barber. We are SOOO proud!!!!!!

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday. Mike and John dropped by as did Dennis, AJ and Peter. AJ back from his visit to New Orleans to visit family and give his niece away at her wedding. Peter back fresh from his visit to HM Queen Elizabeth. Welcome home both of you. We are looking forward to our little getaway towards the end of July. Guernville for 7 nights, San Francisco for 3 nights taking in Dore Alley as participants, no booth this year (or ever again). There are always things and places we love to visit when in San Francisco. We have told so many of our guests from SF that we will be in Twin Peaks at 11am Saturday morning for cocktails. We know for definate that Jim and Terry will be there, as will  Dick K.
Two bloody Mary's and then on to Blue for their famous Mac and  Blue Cheese, hop on a street car and head towards the Embarcadero for a mooch around the farmers market. Dinner Friday night at the Indian Garden resaturant on Folsom ... yum, can't wait!!!!! Not to mention the sights at Dore on Sunday!!!!!

        

"Bollocks"

I'm sure more than a few of you are familiar with the term 'bollocks' as in 'that's a load of old bollocks' meaning (more or less translated) that's a load of old rubbish. Not a very nice thing to say (bollocks=balls). Maybe some of you might even be familiar with the Sex-Pistols 'Never Mind the Bollocks'.

However, if one were to say 'thats the dogs bollocks',  that's a compliment as in the 'Queen was the dogs bollocks'!

There is a point to this!!!!! See picture .. someone gave me this dog, complete with bollocks for my birthday. Lift up the tail and insert tea candle. Now, thats a load of old bollocks!!!!

Here endeth the English lesson for today!!!!!!!!

The Queens Jubilee

Well, if you hadn't noticed, HM The Queen had a small party last week to celebrate 60 years as Queen. I'm sure we know a few other queens who have celebrated 60 years!!! However, we decorated with some  flags on the balconey. How we come to have 3 Union Jacks AND and St Georges' flag is beyond me.

Did you see the concert outside the palace? Talking of queens, Sir Cliff Richard AND Sir Elton John performed. (For those who don't know of Cliff Richard, he was the British Elvis!). And not to mention the diva Dame Shirley Bassey ... woweeee girl .... not bad for 70+

They can all be checked out on youtube. Look for Madness singing 'ours is a nice house' from the palace roof.