In my dreams I am this tennis Goddess and it is sad when I see the reality. I look like the tennis toad.
I am however slightly improving every day.
For those of you who don't know who the cast of characters up here are, here is a brief run down:
Tom has four siblings. His brother Phil has a partner called Cathy whose daughter Sarah is getting married next week. We are living in their house at the moment but today we move out and the wedding hordes move in.
Tom's oldest sister Ayrie is in Chicago now. She has two daughters,
Kate and Rebecca. Kate is here now with her two children Lily and James. Kate is married to Jason who is arriving shortly.
Lucy is another sister and she is coming up here in a day or two and there is another sister Les who won't be coming up this year.
There are also an astounding array of people who drift in and out who are relatives and friends and a combination of both.  The whole place is a hotbed of gossip and speculation.
Last night we all had dinner in the big house after cocktails with cousins Stu and Sue, a twin-like couple.
Jesse, Mel and Kate made tacos, beans and guacamole and we all played Up Jenkins, a strange game where we try to figure out who is hiding a quarter coin in their hands.
There is another dinner game which is horrible where everybody suddenly puts their finger on the side of their nose and the last person to realise it and doesn't have a digit attached to their nose has to hide under the table and say "I'm a little pig". Go figure.