Mega Bank Holiday

Hola,

Hope everyone's well! Well, this weekend has been a nice relaxing one. In
Spain, they keep the same day for all their bank holidays, they don't put
them onto a Monday like we do in the UK. This week, the holiday was on
Tuesday, so what some businesses do in this case is let all the staff have
Monday off too. So, I've had four days off! It's been well nice!

Mark came and visited this weekend too. We didn't do much (there isn't much
*to* do) but we had a good time in each other's company! It's nice just
being with him for a weekend! God, it's like Trisha "HEAR ME NOW! IREY!
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE, AN' PEAAAAAAAA!!!!" So yeah, I took Mark to
Alicante Airport on Monday morning, and came back at about 3pm. I changed
my train from the Euromed to the Talgo, which is just as posh, but stops
more often, so it takes 3 hours, as opposed to 2½. However, there was an
old gypsy lady on the train with her granddaughter, and she had this mad
toy with her. Not sure if you've seen one.... It's a sort of hamster wheel,
with a plastic ball inside, which inturn has a rattle-like thing inside it.
All this is on a stick, so said child can push it along the floor making as
much noise as possible. She was also wafting it about her head, making shed
loads of noise, and the granny thought it was sweet. IT WAS *NOT* SWEET -
IT WAS EXTREMELY IRRITATING!!!! I don't mind children making some noise on
trains, afterall, they're bored as sin, and need something to entertain
themselves with, but this was taking the biscuit! I withstood it for 25
minutes, then I had to take advantage of RENFE's free earphones and at-seat
entertainment system, whose music was depressing enough, without having
just said goodbye to your boyfriend for a fortnight!!! lol. Turned the
volume up, blocked out the child, read my book, and panicked when I thought
I'd missed my stop. T'was all ok though. We were just turning around at
Cabanyal...

ANYHEW, this morning is mental as usual. I had a random e-mail in my inbox
from some random, an entertaining picture from Shaz of some big woman's
arse painted up as a Jack o'Lantern, and a "funny" from Peter. Ulí's
running about like a blue-arsed fly having to sort more stuff out. How he
doesn't have a seizure, I don't know! I don't think I could do his job...
He and Mercedes are going to Hannover in an hour anyway. I'm sure he asked
if I wanted to come, as Walter is ill, but I didn't want to say yes in case
I looked like a tit.

Also, ye olde dot-matrix printer is once again being a royal pain in the
arse (in this case Camilla P-B). I've tried to print the mountain of orders
off that I've done, but the bloody thing just won't initiate. Either it's
throwing a strop at me for some reason, or it's just plain crap. I vote for
the latter.

The Paella Valenciana went ok. I made way too much of it though, and now
it's sat in the fridge, waiting for me to eat it. It was nice though, but I
need to change some things in my method and recipe, so it is just right!
I'll stick a piccy on later.

Well, I'm gonna go battle with the printer again. I'll see if Sergio (I.T.
teccy) is in to see if he can help me with it!

Até amanhã!!!! <<< Portuguese - I'm *so* multilingual... lol...

Ben xxx