I share a 4 bedroom flat with Sissi, she rents out the other two rooms to Airbnb guests to help pay for the large rent here. Some of the guests are a bit strange but I’m sure they must think that Sissi and I are a bit of an odd couple living in this flat together too. She’s 34 and I’m a wee bit older than that.

One guy is the school kid that is here for a month to do a crash course in English study and he is around 15 or 16 years old. Typically at this age hygiene is not really a concern and so he will go from toilet to kitchen as I’ve said before. Last night however I was forced to speak to him because the stench coming from his shoes was making me feel quite sick. I asked him to put his shoes outside. His Mother was here at the time and he must have told her what I said because within 5 minutes he was back and he took the insoles from the shoes and proceeded to wash them, but at least the shoes were outside. You know you can buy new odour eating insoles for about 3 quid, why would you bother to wash the old ones, it sounds rather stupid to me.

Anyhoo I’ll be glad when he goes and takes his disgusting habits and smells with him.

I think I will start to write about the strange folk that walk through our front door, it’s quite fascinating………….