hello again

Hello

Sorry for the long absence, we've lost the camera : (

This is most unususal for us, hee hee ; ) All fine here, we've just had a wonderful day celebrating Miss Molly Millie's second birthday. Aunty Lotte has taken some pics she's going to send.... We've got English grandad staying with us at the min. which is great. We've just had a nice half term holiday seeing some sights around here, back to work and kindergarten on tuesday.... Tomorrow we're celebrating Molly, a party with her childminder and the other 3 little ones she looks after, should be fun..... I'll get back to baking cupcakes and the no. 2 biscuits!

Hope all well...

Goats!

Christian and Alfie builing the goat house! We've just recieved 2 goats, its been very exciting and alot of work!

Testing the goat house..

The goats arrived 2 weeks ago and have only just been allowed into their part of the field. Our first attempt at fencing them in was unsuccessful, and the next one and the next one!

I just managed to take this photo and they were off, luckliy we had christian's dad to help round them in! They just ran out of the electric fence and didn't seem to be bothered by it all, so we changed it for another one, which also didn't bother them. They have had a very small area this past week which was fenced off with planks. However this also had to be adjusted as they climbed and squeezed out of that! Real escape artists, anyway they seem settled now in a fence with chicken wire and planks, no electricity either : )

They're very friendly and seem to be enjoying their new surroundings, when I find the camera I'll take some photos of their new pen. We've also got 9 new chickens, the old chicken's haven't been laying very many eggs so C's dad came with some rescued battery farm chickens. They stay out late and don't even like to sleep on the perch with the other chickens. They're very curious, I found one in the hallway this afternoon!

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.