Visit from granny

We had a surprise visit from granny 2 weeks ago, yeah!

We had a lovely week at home with trips to the park and Mariager.

Relaxing with a juice.

Granny even made treacle tarts, Alfie's fave!

She also made lots of apple pies and tomato sauce for the freezer, sorted the greenhouse, made chutney, arranged the cupboards, laundry... It's a very long list and we all miss her lots now!!!!

Recent activity...

Nikolai, nadia, selma and aisha have been to visit.

Danish great granny had a big 85th birthday party.

Molly has been rearranging the flower pots.

Boiled eggs for breakfast.

The chickens still seem to be taking a summer sabatical from laying eggs, we're going to try giving them garlic and yoghurt, in an attempt to get more than 2 eggs a day from 9 chickens!

Norah Jones Sings "Don't Know Why" on Sesame Street

Andrea Bocelli sings Elmo to sleep

We were all entranced by this at bedtime tonight....

Uk summer '10

We had a great family duck race on the river in Middleton.

The ducks were released at the starting line and Granny fished out them out at the finish line.

Numbers on the ducks and prizes for the winner, do try this at home!!

Granny's in position at the finish line!

Fishing at Grasholme Reservoir.

The proud fishermen, with a catch of 6 trout.

They were very nice with boiled potatoes and peas! ;)

Tyneside Railway

We had a trip on a steam train from Alston, it was a great day out.

Highly recommended!

The train driver

Deer by the platform

In the carriage

Uk summer '10

After the holiday with C's family we went straight to England to visit my family.

Alfie and Grandad having a 'nice cup of tea' at Granny's house : )

The view down to Middleton- in-Teesdale.

Molly and Aunty Sarah

Ice creams at Alston

Viking museum

Here are some vikings making wooden bowls and utensils.

We made some flat breads and cooked them over the fire. We also had viking juice; apple juice mixed with cinnamon, vanilla and elderflower, it was really tasty.

The vikings mostly lived, ate and slept in the one room.

Viking museum

We visited a really great viking museum in Bork.

Here are Alfie and Molly at the viking play area.

Inside a viking house, Molly tried the viking baby chair.

4 families would have slept in this room, a family of 4 in each of the beds, and these were the head families!

Viking enthusiasts worked in the museum living as vikings 24/7. We chatted to some vikings who came from Gremany and were at the museum for their holidays, they spent 2 weeks living as vikings in a tent with no mod cons at all.

Summer holidays

Alfie and Great Granny doing a jigsaw

We're ready for breakfast!

3 little rascals on the beach. The beach was great, lots of sand and small waves.

Christian spotted 2 porpoises in the water too, very exciting

One night, Alfie stayed up very late and ate pancakes with Aunts Lotte and Hanne.

He loved that!

Summer holidays

We've just had 3 weeks of holidays : )

The first week we were in a summer house on the west coast of Denmark with Christian's extended family.

More children came later on in the week which was nice.

BBQ outside, we had gorgeous weather all week.

On the swings..

The chick..

We've now got two baby chicks, it's very exciting!

Both chicks have been outside today and are being fiercely guarded by their mum.

It's been really hot over here the past few days,

on Saturday we went to the beach at Århus with Christian's parents.

It's a lovely beach, just near the city and the forest.

baby chicks!

Our first baby chick of the summer!

We'd just about given up hope of chicks from our 4 broody hens when yesterday Christian found this gorgeous one : )

Another one hatched out today too, we'll see what the weekend brings....

Hope you have a good weekend.

weekend

The first roses are in bloom on the farm : )

It was really hot on saturday, poor molly had been feverish and teething so we just tried to keep cool

with ice lollies, the paddling pool and keeping in the shade.

Molly was a bit better on Sunday so we went for a bike ride, a good way to cool down in the heat, well for the passengers!

We had a few supplies with us for the trip. We cycled to the woods but there were too many bugs to stay and eat in there!

There had been alot of rain in the night and seemilngly double the amount of bugs crawling over us, so we made a sharp exit! Alfie and I seem to be very popular with the creepy crawlies and mosi's : (

Back to the garden for a cuddle in the hammock!