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Alfred and Molly were showing off their cooking skills, making waffles sunday morning! We need an apron for Molly ;-)

Well sadly Molly didn't quite enjoy the forest as much as the rest of us so she started to kick up a fuss and would not really play, so one mushroom and a few chestnuts were all we had to show, but it was a beautifull day none the less!

We eaven found one mushroom that went straight in Carolines fantastic nutroast dinner!

On sunday we had a family outing to the forest to look for mushrooms and other delights from the wild. Here Alfred is doing a jig to get his fingers warm :-)

Rosey cheeks and all in one suite - Winter here we come!

Alfred and Molly are getting more and more into playing with each other now, Alfred is pushing Molly on the swing to her great delight!

We finally had the time to chop down a big branck that had broken on the apple tree, and the weather was fantastic all weekend! Farmor and Farfar took Alfred and Molly to the zoo on saturday(we won't get into the ethical debate on this venture!) and me and Caroline were able to get some work done in our hallway and other odd jobs arount the farm.

I don't think you got to see Caroline in waders prawning when we went to Fur for a weekend, but here she is our favorite fishing girl :-)

We had the last chimney built by two very good brick layers that I used to work with, and as you can see they were commited to getting the job done and worked into the night.

Alfred has gotten my old garage that my dad built for me when I was little, it is acctually fun to see him playing with my old toys! Well have to write Christian and son's garage on the sign ;-)

September

We've had two cars the last 9 months, but one is off to the scrap yard so we're well and truely back on the bike!

Homemade mother daughter matching outfits,

Oh I've plans for many more of these ; )

Plum picking.

Marrow, cabbage. leek, beetroot and potatoes is what we're picking and eating now.

Update

The computer is back, yeah! Here are some some photos from late summer......

The girls cooking preparing and freezing the vegetable harvest.

Our long haired lovely painting ; )

Molly eating ALL on her own!

Lighting a fire in our new wood burning stove. Steffan and Ane have also had their chimney built up again so the house has two new chimney stacks. Just in time for the chilly evenings.

Hej

Hello

Well it's been a while since I last blogged... The computer's broke and is in for repair so no photos until we get our proper computer back..

We're all fine apart from being full of the autumnal cold : ( Christian's busy making a fireguard for the new wood buring stove among other projects. Granny Stark has just been for a long weekend which was lovely, we went to Aunty Lotte's birthday party and to the summerhouse. I'm back at work so we're really busy but it's all going OK!

: ) x

Honey

Look at our honey harvest!

We thought we would have to wait until next year for our first honey harvest but after checking the frames we found there was plenty of honey ready.

There was enough for about 5 jars.

We just squeezed it out of the honeycomb by hand. Next time we'll have some more professioal equipment to swing the honey out! We also melted the honeycomb so we have some beeswax.

The three official beekeepers.... christian, steffan and nikolai.

The three official tasters.... aisha, alfie and selma.

Plum crumble

 

We've 2 different types of plums in the garden at the min (and lots of pretty flowers!).  Here's a recipie for a yummy crumble you can eat warm or cold with creme fraiche or ice cream...

3/4 handfuls of plums

Wash the plums and take the stones out.  Place in a greased oven proof dish and sprinkle a little bit of sugar over, bake in the oven for 10 mins at 175 degrees.

100g sugar

100g butter

100g flour

100g chopped almonds

Rub these ingredients together and sprinkle over the plums.  Bake for about half an hour until golden and bubbling.

Enjoy : )

The weekend..

 

We were at the summerhouse again this weekend...

 

with a big fishing net.....

 

we caught lots of prawns (enough for lunch, dinner and the freezer!) and other sea life which we put back in the sea : )

In other news.... Grandad left today after a lovely two weeks, he's back home now for a well deserved rest.  Molly is standing up all the time and has just started day care.  Alfie is saying lots of Danish words.  Christian is moving alot of windows at work and is leaving den gamle by (a beamish type museum in Århus) and starting closer to home soon.  I'm starting back at work in 2 weeks and (drum roll please)as I write both kiddies are sleeping at 7.30pm  (I can't remember the last time this happened!) .

x

Molly's party cont.

 

We put bunting up all the over! Very easy to make with triangles, rectangles and strips of fabric sewn with a zig zag stitch onto bias binding. I just left the edges of the fabric raw without hemmimg or anything and it worked fine.

We have our own little table outside the farm where we sell potatoes, beetroot, marrows and whatever else we have in abundance.

 

Beetroot, red onion, goats cheese tart, tomato and cheese quiche, pesto potato salad, home baked bread.  We used all out own produce which was great as we have loads of veg at the min!

 

Ingelise made a lovely fish cake with salmon and prawns.

 

Even more bunting in the tent!

Molly's party cont.

 

Molly got some great prezzies, we game Alfie and Molly a personalized bowl and cup, Alfie's with a tractor and Molly's with a fairy.  Molly also got a doll and doll's pram, a necklace, cutlery and money for a  new car seat.

 

Aunt Hanne got Molly a stawberry hat.

 

This is great gran's muffin we saved for her. I forgot to take a photo of all the fairy cakes with different pics of Molly on, they looked great and tasted fab.  Aunty Lotte made them, white chocolate and coconut mmm.