BBQ

New Years Day we had a bbq at Rolf and Diane's. Yes, I said BBQ in January and yes, Rob does have shorts on !!! I am not sure what the temperature was but it was rather cold. These two BBQ in rain, hail and shine.

Rolf is an artist and his paintings are fantastic. Anyway, Oliver and Luke were playing in the back room where Luke has his toys and I don't know who went for a wander but they ended up in Rolf's office and if there is a paint brush about, Oliver will find it !! He did and this is him painting. Luke came out to grass on Oliver and tell us he was painting. I was horrified but luckily it was a blank canvas and not one Rolf was already working on. Phew !!!

Here we all are eating our lovely food.

Oliver is eating ice-cream while I am eating chocolate with champagne in the middle !!

K.

Never Trust The Weatherman

Well, we woke up this morning to NO SNOW what so ever !!! That means no lovely white photo's for you to see. I think Rob was hoping it would snow then he could have worked from home.

Here are some photos from our trip to Germany.


Here are the boys playing on the Sudnay morning. The two BIG boys were in bed recovering after their night out.

"Cheese" !!! How is this for posing. LOL
Here we are sitting down to our New Years Dinner. This is traditional in Germany to have a Rachlette (I will check the spelling). It is basically and indoor bbq. Just get your meat prepared and cheese sliced and whatever else you want and go for it.

You can see it a little better here and underneath the 'grill' is for the cheese. You place the cheese and add whatever is on offer (pineapple, onions, peppers ???) then place another slice of cheese on top and watch it melt. You can see Jill placing her cheese on her plate.

At 11pm, we went to Jill's parents house (Jill's dad Rolf is 2nd from left). Here is Oliver mingling with their guests. He calls Jill's mum, Diane - Diamond. I don't know why but when we were teaching him to say Diane, it sounded like he was saying Diamond and it has stuck. Diane loves it !!

K.

Hello from Germany

(I CANNOT UPLOAD PHOTOS UNTIL WE RETURN HOME AS I FORGOT TO BRING THE CABLE WITH ME ! doh!)

We drove from the UK to Germany yesterday (Saturday) to stay with our friends Martin, Jill and Luke for the New Years celebrations. The Germans are quite big on fireworks and Oliver loves them so he will be excited about that.

We had a really good run with no traffic to hold us up except for checking in at the UK port. To cut a long story short, we missed our train and we ended up not leaving the UK until 12:20pm. Not the start we wanted but it turned out ok. Oliver had a sleep in the car and I closed my eyes for a while as both Oliver and I have been ill AGAIN !!!

We are both feeling better now but today Oliver seems to be losing his voice. The two men went out last night and didn't come home until after 4am so everyone has gone to bed for a sleep so what a great time to update my blog while it is nice and quiet.

K.