The Easy Life

Last week was far too easy. We had 6 guests. Between 2 of us. This of course did mean that A thought it was acceptable to roll into work 2 hours late in the morning but even then it was still a breeze. And don't worry, it's all being added onto the tab.


We have just greeted our guests for this week, back to a full chalet and 7 children. Alice in the chalet downstairs has a guest called Alex. He is 3...and brilliant. I'm so jealous, it's fine though because I have already made great friends with him. I walked out onto her balcony earlier and young Alex came bounding up to me shouting 'I FOUND A LIZARD, I FOUND A LIZARD, I FOUND A LIZARD, I FOUND A LIZARD, I FOUND A LIZARD!!'.


He had found a lizard.


The 2 of us followed the lizard along the sunny chalet wall for a while before it disappeared into a crack I assume it had adopted as its home. Being the sheep that I am I disappeared into my own crack(den) to roll myself a cigarette after a hard transfer day. Behind me I hear a small high pitched voice say 'Oh so this is your bedroom!'. I turned around to find 3 year old Alex rooting through my belongings and making himself at home in my flat.


Once I had finally ushered him out of my 'not safe for children' living space he started eating dirty brown end-of-season snow from the ground. I told him it probably wasn't a good idea and he might get sick. He ran away so I assumed he had taken what I said on board.


30 seconds later Alex reappeared with a large stick with a big dirty snowball on the end of it. 'Here you go, I brought you an ice cream'.


As far as guests go I think this week will be fine, nothing out of the ordinary. We have, however, just received our manifest for next weeks guests. Wow.


QUOTE: 'Mrs ***** only eats plain salad, steamed/boiled vegetables and steamed/baked fish or tuna'.


What shocked me was not the fact that I only just found out tuna is in fact in a whole different food group to fish, but the fact that this guests requirements spilled onto the next  line of the manifest...


'Furthermore, guest and partner have very recently split up, please can they have separate beds.'


To be honest, I'd have dumped the fussy cow too.