There is a black mood in our little household this weekend!  Grace is loaded down with school work, GP has been put on a diet by our doctor and I'm still recovering from my surgery.  I very much doubt my stitches will come out tomorrow, the leg still hurts, the diet isn't working and the school work gets more intense, and for Chrissakes the Italian weather service got it wrong AGAIN!  They said it would rain all weekend and we haven't had a drop.  Not one single drop.  In fact I've had to water the garden.  Honestly why don't they just give up?

I just read an article about Liberland, a tiny country that has just been established in an area of no-man's-land between Croatia  and Serbia. They are currently taking applications for citizenship and say they will accept 35,000.  No Nazi, Communists or extremists need apply.  It was founded just a week ago and already has a Wikipedia entry!  I want my own country!  xxoo me