April 25, 2004
Katka
is staying with us for a while. Living for free and helping out a bit.
April 23, 2004
Jurassic Playscape
I had great fun with this little garden project at the nursery in collaboration with Penny and Tim.
It remains to be seen how hardy our choices of plants really were. Especially the boys are testing them to authentic dinosaur levels of destructiveness.
April 18, 2004
D: Heidis Terrasse
Leni copying the big girls loading flowers onto her bobby-car.
April 17, 2004
D: Spielplatzmisere
Germany is supposed to be childfriendlier than the UK.
Smaller German communities... well Munderkingen and dozens of neighbouring villages have one piddly playground in the middle of nowhere to share between them.
Instead every individual family garden boasts a full climbing-frame-slide-swing-combo most nurseries over here would envy.
To commemorate the adventure playground heydays of our youth in the seventies we organized a BBQ on one of our then favourites.
We shared the massive now bar one swing and one slide empty space with our friends from Russia and Turkey.
We felt very pleased with ourselves and the company of old friends, that drifted in and out all afternoon. Most pleasant.
April 16, 2004
D: Traumland auf der Bärenhöhle
Liese mit Charlotte und Frieder, Sabbe und Jo, mit Leoni, Heidi und Onkel Uwe haben uns auf ein Ausfahrt zum Traumland ausgeführt.
The entrance fee got us lots of fairy tales, free rides, goat-feeding, trampolin jumping and more.
Leni was entranced by the moving fairy tale figures. The little sports car track was her favourite - throwing a mini crying fit and stomping her legs everytime she had to get out of the car.
Marlas favourite ride was the little train. She was allowed to sit in the front carriage going round the track and throught the tunnel all by herself.
Movie: sportscar ride
Movie: rutschen
Movie: leni und märchen
Movie: rumpelstilzchen
Movie: schneewittchen
We had a wonderful afternoon ending in a nice Schwäbian dinner at the 'Gasthaus Adler', Meidelstetten.
April 13, 2004
D:Hexenkessel
Such a lovely playplace - it was when we were little, accompanying our father on his fishing outings and it still is.
April 12, 2004
D: Rittersleut in Zwiefaltendorf
Medieval fair - sunshine, but very cold - Marlas first ride ever on a horse, a battlehorse of a female knight! - excellent medieval crafts and foods - bow and arrows, crossbows, felting, swords, shields and all.
We met up with Alexander, Susie and Tamara.
Kalt wars!
Movie: marla_riding
April 11, 2004
D: Ostereiersuche
in Heidis Garten.
Danke für die Hasenhelferin Tante Petra.
April 09, 2004
Happy Easter!
Off to Munderkingen tomorrow.
Leave you with a little song:
Download file '4hammers'
Download file '5hammers'
and a pretty picture:
April 08, 2004
Antje
went back home to Oyten/Bremen today. We'll be missing her. Stay in touch!
April 07, 2004
Beaus 2.Birthday
in Barnes. Catching up with breeding 'Sunbathers' and Matt and Alfred and Liane and her boys. Well done everybody.
And wonderful party, too.
Jurassic CG
Penny and me went out to a wholesaler in Hatfield/Hertfordshire to pick and purchase plants for a dinosaur model landscape at the Nursery. Penny and Tim are doing the hard landscaping. Exciting.
April 06, 2004
Daily Playtime
Seb and Zuska are regulars at the 'Brennan Creche'. It's good fun for Seb and Leni.
During the Easter holidays Marla and Roseby are spending the days together, too.