The year is coming to an end....

... and a Happy New Year


We celbrating Christmas with Tina and Wolfi


...a very strange trio of pianists....playing from the magazine of motorbikes??? Can you imagine the sound of this....


... Dylan blowing out the candles and looking at the mountain of presis.


Lewis was invited to celebrate Dylan's Birthday and they made some cookies together.


Mocca enjoys a round of football with Dylan.









Sean and me enjoyed some really nice walks through the forrest. The colours of the leaves were so beautiful and everytime we went walking the sun was shining and the days were crisp, fresh autumn/ winter -mornings. We collected holly and pine to give our home a Christmassy feel and made some nice decorations.




...this one is hanging on the back door

...we lit the first candle on the 1st Advent


...the Smokingman was blowing its pipe calmly, giving the room th smell of Christmas and winter




At the beginning of December we had our piano delivered. Just in time for Christmas. Now at leat one of us should learn to play it....

What has been happening until November 2006

After all the hard work in the summer we finally enjoyed the garden....



....and all the pretty flowers


It was a lovely long summer, which was a real bonus for us. One day in September we saw lots of lovely colourfull hot air ballons flying all over Chesham


... eventually the leaves have changed colours and we enjoy walks in the park




Sean and Dylan have discovered a new liking. They have been fishing a couple of times, with no real success...
Anyway in Britain you can't take the fish home anyway. You are putting the poor thing through all the pain of being fished, to then just throw it back into the water. What a cruel thing to do!

To make them feel succesful I prepared trout for lunch. Which tasted really nice.

In October I went to Germany to be part of the 20 year jubilee of "Jugendkantorei des Wurzener Domes" (a choir I used to sing in). The singing was really enjoyable and it was nice to see old friends again.



..... so much so far from Chesham.

The new garden

It is a very nice outcome and a relief that all the hard working weekends have been worth it.

Hugs and a big thank you going to our wonderful friends Wolfi and Tina!



Mocca seems to love it....he can actually run now!

There is light at the end of the tunnel.....

Dylan and Sean mixing concrete.



Sean is finalising the front door paving.



Finishing touches.







Last stones in place.





Cleaning all the mud with the pressure washer.

Sunday morning at 7 o'clock

1. .... Sean full in action already.....



2. This is how far we got until 3.15 in the afternoon. No more for this weekend.

Do you remember me ????

This is me, Mocca before my little operation. The doctor and the people who I came from said I was a "fine girl"!





Now, after my operation. It obious isn't it. I am a strong healthy BOY. I must have
had a sex change operation????








Mocca was supposed to be sterilised, to make her a healthier rabbit. Just as the doctor put her to sleep, he relized there was nothing to sterilize, only a part which could have been castrated. So Mocca slept an when she woke up the only thing that had change was the way people looked at her, him???

What shall we do now? Shall he be a Mocca or Macco or has anybody any other suggestions for the name ot this cute little bunny?

It rained cats and dogs

1. Another Friday afternoon spent carrying stones up the hill!



2. Saturday the weather was like in April and we experienced everything from sunshine to thunder, at its worst point this is what it looked like on the ground........



3. ...it did'nt stop Sean. My brave fighter, fights against rain and storm and carries on with what he started.




4. Sunshine, bluish sky, birds singing.....?



5. Sean in the mud! actually this is an important job, he is paving the area around the shed, so we can get in and out there wihout getting dirty and wet.



6. Two out of three sunflowers made it through out all this building work. They are now taller than Sean as well.....


7. The retension wall shall give the Patio a bit of an interesting edge and will be hopefully useful for flower boxes. I am hoping next year round this time it will be green and colourful in this garden.



8. Mixing concrete-my absolut favorite job. I am growing builders arms.



9. Finally around 9 o'clock we finished our little Patio wall as much as possible....

Finishing the fence and building the Patio

1. Delivery of paving stones


2. One of the most ungrateful tasks: running up and down the hill to drop things into the skip and bring up these awfully heavy paving slaps


3. We are closing the GAP, Tina and Sean nailing the final wooden pannel to the new fence, yippy!!!!!


4. Where does what go? Ok, lets start again..small, big, medium....long, fat...tiny. You could not make your life harder, by choosing different sized paving slaps.............. (Design and Layout of Patio)


5. That does not look too bad..... its taking shape!


6........and once again! We had to move the intire, exact layout, in order to prepare the ground for final paving


7. ... do we have enough slaps ??? Does it work out as planned ??? Where have we gone wrong ????


8. And in between the hard work we have to eat and feed our hungry tummy's..... and again preparation.......


9. At 2 o'clock in the morning, even the camera was tired. Tina and me filling gaps with mortar.



.... now the hard work is finally over