The Last Days of January

Walking at the weekend up the forest always requires a power ranger suit and a hat by Granny

Our Home
The duck house in need of a new roof

Hen house with new door Steffen made

Our three indian runners as yet no eggs..

Snow on the hills
The two boys adventuring in the forest
Elke Standing


Saturday museum gang (Jonas, Granny, Thorben, Steffen and Elke)

A castle building kit bought in the second hand shop for 2 euros (hours of fun)

some random things from my week....

Our beautiful home built and documented by 'Rooms to Improve' is giving us stress, the builder has gone bust leaving some large enough snags. We have no warranties to date on some of the work done. At least the heat pump fault has been fixed (800 euros later), the leaking flat roof is another issue!It would be great to get all the snags fixed by one contractor. We are trying to be optimistic.

Funny things the boys said....Jonas wants to marry a girl from playschool and Thorben wants to marry a cat.

I had some ICA mums over for tea and biscuits. Hoping to get out to the first ICA meeting in Hollywood of the year.

We are just back from Collins Barracks in town. We mostly looked at the war museum section...swords, guns, uniforms, life size tanks and aeroplanes which the boys liked. It is a lovely museum and has a nice coffee shop. We paid for parking and realised afterwards we could have parked for free inside....next week we will be in the know. We plan to go back to see the decorative art section.

Grandad had a birthday yesterday and we called in to wish him happy birthday after having lunch with some friends in Bornabreena. 3 mums and 9 kids....makes a lot of noise!!!

We have to renovate the hen house for our ducks, Shelley is going to give us more ducks so we need space for them.

Working three days a week and fitting in meeting up with friends is proving exhausting. It might be better to stay at home for one of my days with the kids instead of leaving home. I need the time for housework and doing things with the boys. I havent seen some of my dear neighbours in weeks literally.

My sister Margaret in the US is married to Andy for two weeks today. Yeh!!!!

We had the first snow of 2012....