February ..Jonas birthday March ..snow frogspawn

Walking at bornabreena water works with the pyes

Playing together 

                      Jonas birthday

6 friends for a party at home..table tennis

A treasure hunt in the woods 

Eating crisps at the top of the mountain

A little sun

                Planting onions thru plastic

                    Jonas holding Juno

      Juno in the polytunnel very muddy

Grandad up at the pond we have frogspawn

    The leaking flat roof soon to be replaced

             Juno smiling at herself  ...A selfie

We got a lot of snow. Elke and I made this snowman.

Our view up the road quite dangerous

                    Our house under snow

     Rebecca and I at a event by the Jane Austen society of Ireland.  Amanda Vickers spoke of spinsters and widows in austen books. It was a very interesting talk.

A sold out event ....70 people

Ines and fiona amd family visited us one Sunday for dinner. I nearly got the whole gang in minus 3 kids.

   Oyster mushrooms I grew on the piano in a box.

I took the boys to Dunsink Observatory on the 10th March for an excellent lecture on Mars but unfortunately we couldn't use the Grubb telescope due to clouds. We are thinking of buying a telescope. 

Steffen aired and cleaned the caravan this weekend. Lucy battleship she is called by the kids.

We took samples to do ph tests on the soil in various parts of the garden. 

We went walking with Rebecca and her girlfriend Majella today up the woods.

Rebecca with a laughing Axel

                  The Den in the trees.

Another selfie of Juno with becca in the background.

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)