Virginia Cheeseman Blog

Seems ages since my last blog. I was away in Luxembourg last week with my sister, visiting her daughter and family. It didn't really go as planned, unfortunately my niece's four kids all went down with a sickness bug so we couldn't get out and about much. It was lovely to spend so much time with the kids and I did get a chance to practice my French (I have been trying to learn French for the last 18 months, I do a little every day on my iPad/Duolingo app). It is a strange country, sandwiched in between several others. We went to Ikea in Belgium and then to a shoe shop in Germany. Some shops speak German and others French. My great-nieces speak fluent German but are not so hot on French. Annika (9 on the Wednesday of our visit) and I went shopping in the local supermarket and had a good laugh trying to communicate. The youngest is almost 2 and says quite a bit but some of it is in English, some German and some just baby babble! The funniest trip was to the vets with my gre...

Nearly spring? Well we are now into February so it is only next month! Not that this week has felt much like spring is on its way. Tuesday was my birthday and I certainly hadn't asked for snow but that's what we got here. The journey to the post office was treacherous, I had to risk life and limb to get my parcels down that hill (1 in 10) to send them off (the postman didn't make it up the hill so I had to wait a day for my birthday cards). Thankfully the snow soon disappeared but there were several accidents around our village. The bugs are happy in their nice warm room and I am slowly getting there with all the new stock that I got from the show a couple of weeks ago. I finally added the Katydids to the website yesterday but I still haven't got the scorpions sorted out. I have had another email this morning from Facebook telling me I have 21 friend requests, it isn't even up and running yet so how does that work?? Perhaps when I go to Luxembourg in the half t...