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I don't like it when John works away but there are advantages I guess.

Someone needs to finish the bottle of red wine he'd nearly finished - and the boys are underage.

And the boys don't like my delicious rhubarb and apple crumble which is only half eaten.

I get a whole bed to myself - which is good when you have an ankle that can't quite decide if it's comfortable or not.

I compensate by buying the boys treats - so frappuccinos all round this afternoon. 

And if he's away a long time, presents!

But most of all, it makes me appreciate how much better life is when he's around. 

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It amuses me that John had to wait until we moved back from Switzerland to get his Nespresso machine. He managed to 'break' the (not Nespresso) coffee machine I bought him . Mmm! 

Still it is a thing of beauty so I bought him a pod holder to go with it. 

Had to smile today when Runkeeper sent me an email saying 

"It's been a while since we last saw you...Let's get you back out there!"

Yes, well. I would if I could!

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I have a new downstairs toilet. After 10 days without it, I'm very happy. And after years of saying "the downstairs toilet needs replacing" I'm also very pleased we've finally got around to getting it done. 

A fun day for World Book Day at WCPS although I did get a little tired of being asked if I was Cinderella, Dorothy or Little Red Riding Hood when I was in fact Heidi. Fun to keep re telling her story and telling "Höppla!"

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Toadstools in the garden. Pretty red and rather large...

And now obliterated thanks to Stevens and Stevens, Fungi Destroyers: armed only with sports equipment, they scythe all errant mushrooms in their path! You have to smile at their enthusiasm.

Also making me smile today:

Teaching PE today was just like herding sheep, sheep with tennis rackets!

Class assembly rehearsal. 

Looking at Jude's packed case for residential, and discovering that he has actually packed everything he needs!

Educating Yorkshire is on!

It's Thursday - no teaching tomorrow. (Still be working though!)

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I looooove laminating!!!  I am a laminatrix (someone else referred to me as this at a conference at which I confessed my passion and admitted to having laminated my hair by accident.)

Other smiles today -
A sunny start to the day.
A little boy, probably about 18 months old, walking into church wearing his big sister's pink plastic play stilettos! So cute!
The boys playing with their cousin - always fun to watch.
My nephew greeted me by name. Several times!

Chocolate cake for tea. 

A whole day without my boot!

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Biggest smile of the day...

I can stop wearing my air boot. Although it is lovely and spangly and has served me well, it is very hot inside it and there is subsequently a rather ripe aroma that emanates from it when removed.
I still need to wear it for parts of the day whilst I get used to walking again, and I'll need to keep hold of my crutches for a bit, but I can wear two shoes - or no shoes - again :)
Running is still a way off but progress has been made! I'll get back to Core first and do all my exercises from the physio to improve my balance too.

A (comparative) lie in made me smile although my alarm going off wasn't so good - I must have set it in my sleep as it was definitely off when I went to bed!

We've all survived the first week of school - although it wasn't a full one for some!

And I relived the fun of La vaca Lola by making a collage of the actions for someone on Twitter.

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See girls - I told you I had a milk jug!

I have just found it hidden amongst all the ornaments we put in storage! It's now reunited with the rest of my tea set. 

And this may look unexciting to you, but the return of this filing cabinet has filled me with great joy as it holds all my flash cards, worksheets and other resources I've made, and I haven't seen it since September 2011.

I also managed to get Mum's sewing machine working and shortened two pairs of Jude's trousers. That was stressful but it made me smile to think that, for all lack of domesticity, I'm the only one who can thread the sewing machine! Thank you Mrs Cunliffe!

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I'm not doing very well on the photo taking at the moment as I'm not out and about very much.

I can't even get a third of the way down my garden for fear of hurting my foot further.

So I'm relying on pictures BCH (before Switzerland)

I can see these from the part of the garden I can reach.

I can see this in the distance growing up the fence - very distant and rather wild but there are flowers!

And I can't wait to be able to stand under the trees and look up like this at the blue sky.

For now I'm making do with managing to get onto my beloved swinging bench :) (sadly no flowers on it at the moment)

I had a smile - and a laugh - at the young man from the Hyundai garage who called today to see if we liked our car. He asked about my foot and then tried to move the conversation on to the car by saying "Your legs apart... oh, no I didn't mean that. (pause) Leaving your legs apart... no, that's worse...." after which I rescued him by saying "You mean, apart from my broken foot..."  I could feel him blushing down the telephone! Poor lad!

And GBBO - no excessive finger slicing or great disaster this week but bread shaped like a football predicting octopus? And a loaf of bread with tomatoes on the top as ' an inventive spectacular bread'? 

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This picture made me laugh today. I think it's from Innocent Smoothies but not sure. 

It's been a busy day getting ready for the packers tomorrow but we've had fun along the way. Isaac Jude and I formed a formidable 'net curtain removal' team, and our rubbish distribution reached new levels of deviousness. I also found time to buy a new pair of shoes and watch the IPC Athletics on TV, both of which made me smile. 

Time for sleep now though. 

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Boys were a bit bothered by the above - how are you supposed to build with this Duplo, especially in this heat?!

It's a bit sad when your smiles are caused by packing and distributing rubbish. However, I did get great satisfaction from unpacking and replacing boxes, finding books that I thought were in England and cursing the fact that only now am I finding things that would have been useful weeks ago!

And our continuing excursions to distribute rubbish around the wastebins of Winti always raise a smile. 

Sad that David Millar didn't stay out front to the end, and that Mark Cavendish didn't make it 5 wins on the Champs d'Elysees but watching was great and you have to say well done to Chris Froome for winning the Tour de France and being declared 'le vainquer' (the boys found that particularly funny for some reason...!)

Roll on 2014 and the Grand Depart in Yorkshire! 

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There are many things that cannot return with us to England and Isaac's cardboard stool is one of them so he modelled it for one last time before smashing it up for recycling. 

John came back from Amsterdam :o) with lots of washing :o( and ginger cake :o)

And a friend on Twitter shared how the IWB in her Yr1 class had a bit of trouble with handwriting recognition and for 'survivor' wrote 'titless'!

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ISW graduation.

A trip to the Badi.

And a bubbly footspa.

Triple whammy of smiles!


Say cheese in other languages
In Japanese you say Sei, no! / はい、チーズ！ (hai, chiizu!)

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John made me smile whilst we were making dinner by arranging the vegetables to make traffic lights! And then Jude starting giving advice on improving the arrangement and told me to look at it from above. So I did. What do you think?

Jude came back from a shopping trip full of stories of how he threw a tennis ball at a target and had a marshmallow teacake catapulted at him 'very quickly because my ball hit so hard!'
Isaac made me smile trying to choose a pair of scissors in Wachter - he's left-handed and is unused to having to choose such things!
And Mark Cavendish made me smile by winning the opening stage of the Giro de Italia, and promptly swearing on live TV when his earpiece wouldn't do what it was supposed to do. He looked very sheepish and apologised immediately, then got on with the interview.

And this is genius! I even know how to say at least half of these in German!

Say cheese in other languages
In Greek you say Πες τυρί! (Pes tyrí!) which means Say cheese.

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You never know what you'll find when you open the fridge. Apparently they're contemplating...

Other things that made me smile 
Going for a 5.5 mile run before RedRun training
The inability of a group of women to agree on a date to go out together - a date was fixed then the organiser remembered she had Beyonce tickets for that night...
Great reports about Isaac from his teachers.

Say cheese in other languages
In Czech - Vyletí ptáček! 

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A bundle more smiles today after not much sleep. Once more, edited highlights as I lost count of the smiles! But I have to say thank you to everyone today who kept me going when I was losing my smile. You are the best x

My #ililc3/MFLTwitterati friends have all been donating the Horlicks that was in their rooms at the Highfield House Hotel to the 'Lisibo needs Horlicks as she can't buy it in Switzerland' appeal. And the lovely @crepeaunutella, who frankly has better things to do as she has a tiny baby, bought me a tub of the stuff. Thank you so much Isabelle xxx

Alex, Jackie and I won the Tarsia challenge - and promptly has to sing Sur le pont d'Avignon to signify we'd finished! Great activity!

At lunchtime, in need of a smile, I met Merlin - and his daddy, John. He has his own blog and belongs to Annalise who also made me smile when I needed it most by giving me some white chocolate buttons.

And arriving home after a 7 hour + journey made me smile a lot - John has made me a drink and run the bath :o) No place like home!
Here's my boy with an interesting icicle.

Smiles in other languages

In Latin - risio