Thursday at home no work no school no playschool.

Coming back from the pond and forest walk

At the pond, some ice for messing with.

Our Jonas 

The forest walk

Elke took this photo of me and juno

The gang waiting for me to open the gate to freedom.

Elke painting this morning

Juno also painting

Our fig tree that was a stick in october...looking good

I sorted out my seeds this morning, elke has picked the first 4 plants we try in the propogator.

Elke and Juno helping me lay out kerrs pink potatoes for chitting on a windowsill.

Smart phone, almost walking, twins birthday, polytunnel work

Juno on a tractor she is nearly walking herself. Note red hair.

In the new yard on her tractor

Elke with her hearts painted for valentines day. See snow on mountains behind.

Jonas with the twins at their first birthday party.

My cousin Helen over from Germany with Elke.

Out in the tunnel at last! We were all glad to spend an afternoon there.

All working ....thorben on making s

pears from apple trees branches we pruned, Elke is cleaning the kitchen and making me a sand cake with shells in top, Juno is thinking about getting over the trap hole dug with a plank over it.

The three boys working on a sand cake.

Crawling around still

Polytunnel nearly all manured and covered

We cleaned table and chairs for the kids restaurant.

We moved the couch.

The peach tree looks great huge growth last year.

The kids area cleaned up a bit I gathered a black bag of leaves for leaf mould.

My dear mammy looking great

Mammy looking out to the mountains.

A gathering in February at fionas house..so many kids..5 are ours of course!

Ines showed me how to make a granny squares.  This is one of hers,  so even.

Growing up, snow, christmas pics and visit of Orla and kids

A walk up the forest on a cold day

Some people had their faces painted

Thorben is his favourite hat

Our Baby

Another day up the forest, a snowy day, Steffen with Juno on his back and Axel beside him, Thorben in front.

Oh the glory of the Snowy mountaintops

The three wise men gathering at Ines and Dereks house

Orla and her kids visited us for night over Christmas from Spain

making german cookies with Heike and Gerhart

for the love of table tennis....good matches...notice audience

reading with Heike

My Silly face

Heike and Gerhart in an arty touching hands shot(unstaged)

December ..rain and other things

Most of the month of December has been very rainy...heavy rain. The latest roofer to look at our leak on the flat roof says the roof is rotten...not what you want to hear for the new year. We will have to try stop the leak with sealant and save to do a bigger job when we are both working full time in a few years time.

Grandad and Axel reading together.

Juno eatting a yoghurt herself, nearly walking now...

Myself and Steffen got to go out to this great gig in hollywood followed by a very quick hot port in tuttys bar. It was a very special night, wonderful music and setting.

Granny feeding juno.

Thorben making a lego present he got from Tante Heike.

Elke colouring in.

The four guys playing with presents from heike on Christmas eve. We had a lovely Christmas,  my parents and sister rebecca stayed for 3 nights, we watched old episodes of Downton Abbey, played the concertina and ukulele, played with toys, planted 100 hedging plants in a lull in the rain, and sang carols.