IT'S been a really special week for me as we've had some proper VIP visitors to (not so) sunny South Wales.

My father and trainer Enzo has just come back from (actually) sunny Sardinia and he's brought my grandparents over with him.

My grandfather Guiseppe, the big Don of the Calzaghe family, has arrived with wife Victoria, my grandmother.

Dad's sister Alba has also come to Wales for a few days, strangely she's the only one of the five children to be born in Britain, but she's now the only one who lives in Sardinia!

No wonder she chose to live over there, I couldn't believe how the weather turned yesterday, I promised my grandparents bright sunshine!

Having our family over is really special. We don't see them as often as we'd like and when we do, generally it is in Sardinia The Calzaghe family is pretty big and it's always great fun when we get together, so it has been a real treat to see everyone and for my boys to spend time with their great grandparents.

I can only really describe my level of training at the moment as ticking over.' Our gym has a very clear and well-defined pecking order of priority for fighters and at the moment I am well down the list.

Whoever is fighting next is generally the guy who gets the most attention, so at the moment dad is spending a lot of time with Gary Lockett - ahead of his June 7 super fight with Kelly Pavlik - and Bradley Pryce who also fights in June.

Enzo Maccarinelli, Gavin Rees, Kerry Hope and Tony Doherty could also all see action before I return to the ring in the winter, so I am looking after myself a bit at the moment and doing enough fitness work to stay sharp.

My problematic left hand isn't 100% but I have had nowhere near the trouble with it after this or the Mikkel Kessler fight that I did after battering Peter Manfredo jnr last April.

This time around I am just easing off on it a bit, largely doing pad work with my right hand and doing plenty of running.

I have been back in the gym a few times, but to be honest that has just been to catch up with my stablemates, have a bit of banter and see how their training is going.

Gary Lockett is particularly focused and keen at the moment, he knows he's got the chance of a lifetime against Pavlik and doesn't seem to be at all daunted by being the underdog.

I saw this week that Kelly Pavlik's coach Jack Loew has taken a swipe at me and my dad, claiming that Gary Lockett won't have a chance if he slaps like a girl like Joe does.' Joe Calzaghe labelled a slapper? Wow! Never heard that one before!

My whole career people have been saying I slap, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Records speak louder than words and I have won 45 out of 45 fights, 32 by way of knockout.

A lot of the 32 fighters I KO'd probably called me a slapper as well, but as I've always said, when you slap' as hard and fast as I do, it's difficult to do anything about!

I have caught up on the sporting matters since returning from holiday and watched Junior Witter's WBC light welterweight defence against America Tim Bradley, who won the fight on a split point decision.

I like Junior, but I do agree that he lost the fight. At the end of the day he didn't work hard enough to impress the judges, I don't think he's in Ricky Hatton's class and maybe a fight with Witter and our own Gavin Rees is a more likely match to be made now.

Carl Froch was also in action, again saying how he'd love to fight me. Surely it is time for Carl to move on and get another goal in life, particularly as, truth be told, he doesn't actually want to fight me at all.

Last year my promoter Frank Warren actually tried to make a fight with Froch, but he was turned down. He continually uses my name to boost his own profile though and it is infuriating.

Ultimately there are much bigger names and harder fighters who want to get into the ring with me and Froch knows it, he is not exactly Roy Jones, Pavlik or Antonio Tarver is he?

In his entire career the only decent name on his CV is Robin Reid and Reid was so badly shot away when they fought last year it is frankly embarrassing.

I would like to see Froch fight Mikkel Kessler, for my money that'd show him up at the top level.

He couldn't match Kessler's movement and I am completely convinced Froch would be knocked out.

So it's FA Cup final week and I would like to wish Cardiff City all the very best in a game I think they can win.

I will certainly be watching, even though I am not, as you may have read in the Cardiff press, a Bluebirds fan.

I wore their shirt at the weigh-in before my fight with Bernard Hopkins because someone gave it to me, but I follow all the Welsh sides, not just Cardiff.

I am a Juventus fan, but follow the Welsh clubs when I watch British football. That said at the moment I am supporting Hull City's bid to reach the Premier League.

My girlfriend is from Hull and she's a fan, we watched their second leg against Watford and I was really impressed with them, they played some great stuff. Nicky Barmby is still going strong in his late 30s, just like me!