Stories from the Eagars

Well.. I haven’t been on here much lately. Between work, visitors and general cr@p happening I’ve been kept out of mischief!!

Thats been a month now that I’ve been working “permanently” and really enjoying it so far. It’s good that it’s only part time as I get the morning to do whatever I want then go in at 12pm till 4.30pm. Plus it gives me a little bit of pocket money too

We had Donna, Rob & their kids out for a few days staying with us recently. They came out for a week but only stayed two nights with us. It was lovely to see them..although Donna ended up quite ill! (not my cooking… honest!) On the Monday that they arrived at our house, we decided to get a take away and open a bottle of wine. Well…. 3 bottles later, we were gished!!! And it was only me & Donna that were drinking it!! I had to take the kids to school in the morning & I dread to think what the other mums were thinking!! Here’s me, hair sticking up on end, no make up, in my tracky bottoms & trainers with a serious case of wine breath that you wouldn’t believe!!! And to make matters worse, I work at the school so I was seriously hoping not to bump into any staff members that I knew!! It just confirmed the long standing rule…. never on a school night!!

We’ve been having a few maid issues too… I know, I know, it sounds all too presumptuous but it is the norm here and I actually do need her now that I am working as the kids finish school before I finish work and they don’t do after school care here (coz everyone has a maid!!). Our last one seemed ok but then there were a few visa issues and she left and never came back!! We interviewed a million other maids (well, maybe not a million but it felt like it) and all I got were nutters! I must attract the chancers of the world coz when I called to arrange interviews, they all came out with bizarre demands! Some would only work certain days, some would only work certain hours, some would only work for a certain amount of money, one even said that my house was too big and she didn’t do big houses!! Oh the list goes on!! I do realise that this sounds really petty, but lets face it, I wouldn’t walk into a job interview where the hours, salary & job description had been explained prior to applying and demand that I wanted more money, less hours etc!! I was close to just scrapping the whole idea but luckily found a nice girl who was happy with everything and so far has proved to be a good little worker! We pay her really well and are not demanding at all so long may it last!!

Oh god I sound like a right expat wife don’t i?!