Birthday's

Well we seem to have quite a spate of birthday's at this time of the year. Gerard's on the 23/9, our friend Klaus on the 25/9, Claudia on the 26/9 and Gerard's mom on the 29/9. Liesel had hers on the 1/10, mine was on the 3rd and my brother Roger had his on the 10th.
Heidi and I went to gym on Monday 1st. When I dropped her off at her flat, the little restaurant opposite their place had put up a teepee. He then put a sign on it saying that it was his guests smoking room. As from 1st October, there is a smoking ban on all restaurants in Germany.
My birthday falls on a public holiday here in Germany every year. This is the day of Unity (it was when the wall in Berlin was broken down etc.) between East and West. So I had asked people around for tea, coffee and cake. Joanne, Melanie and Patrick came down from Eisenach and arrived first. Heidi, Roxy, Marcelle and Claudia also came for the afternoon. Edmond and Ursi came along and I felt quite bad that we all spoke so much English and left her out a bit. I think she must now realise how I felt when I first arrived in Germany and she invited me to her birthday parties etc. Charlie came along for some tea and cake and he, Gerard and Edmond sat and watched sport on TV while us woman yacked out heads off.
I had some lovely messages from friends via email and some phonecalls. Dad forgot my birthday as usual!!!
I went to Marjory on Friday morning and did a bit of dusting for her. Also took her some of my birthday cake. She had also bought cake.
School's broke up today. Robert came home with the worst mark he has ever got for Maths - a 4!!!
Steven came home and did not tell me a word about his marks. Only later when Gerard got home did it all come out. Steven has done very badly in all his tests. Don't quite know what solution we have for this.
On Saturday morning, I went of to Sagawe in Eudorf to go and spend my birthday money on some clothes. I was so pleased to find a number of lovely items and spent 120 euros on them. Gerard dropped Lara off at Sagawe, as he was going to meet Edmond at the tennis courts for his cleaning up session.
On Saturday night, just as we were going to settle down and watch the rugby, Larissa called. I invited her and Gary over to join us. They came a few minutes later and we all watched France play against New Zealand. New Zealand lost and went home!!!!
After a lte night, we had a nice long lie in on Sunday morning. Had a late breafast and then I started painting more of Steven's room. Gary called to say that Larissa and He would not join us for the rugby but were going to Marcelle and Heinz to watch there. That allowed me to finish off the painting without rushing. After the SA - Fiji game, Gerard, Robert, Lara and I went into town and took a walk through the market place. There was a Little Red Riding Hood market on and all the shops were open. It was a beautiful day.