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Kittykatt, thanks for the start. As there's no day starting with B or C we would never had known about Beryl Cook
Lovely paintings ! I wouldn't put them on my walls, myself, but I can see why you find her style worth mentioning. I just googled Virginia stock, looks lovely, wishing you a successful experiment. It seems they are very fragrant, our next door neighbours on the left have a garden with many fragrant flowers, it's a pleasure to walk by their fence after a summer rain.
Totally not CUOP, busy week, Friday night was Neighbours' party, Saturday morning was kids sports, Saturday afternoon is both catch-up and slack-time, so I'm only now trying to get things done in a proper order.
Ds10 is leaving tomorrow morning (departure at 6.30am) for a five day school trip in the Loire valley with two castle visits and other interesting activities.
Priorities are getting his bag ready, making sure he can sleep early tonight - he will probably be stressed up. Also the tax deadline is on Thursday and I barely started gathering the files we need, I need to make time in the afternoon for quiet focus...
And it's Mother's Day here, but I don't think anyone will think about it, and anyway I don't really mind ( in France it was created by maréchal Pétain who was head of the Vichy government under German occupation during WW2, making friends with German leaders and trying to glorify the Nazi values in a French motto "Travail Famille Patrie",
Work, Family, Fatherland - not a good memory...) Even if it's nice to get acknowledged as a parent I don't
need a special celebration day.
TADAs
late in bed, checked news, email
had tea
check on the garden, to see if we have both male and female zucchini flowers, but they're all male so can't be fertilised "by hand"
TODOs
eat something
if the house stays quiet, get a start on tax prep
where is the laundry, is there anything else to wash
get started on DS10's packing
Jude and Freddie 
