Winter time is here

Well, you can tell we are suckers for cute animals...

It was an unusual Monday today. We changed to winter time yesterday and this change, just somehow does not agree with me. I spend most of winter time being on summer time and going to bed at 8.30pm, 'cause I never really get with the groove. Just to top it all off we lost power this morning. It just happened to occur when I spilt some water over the oven, accidently. But it was not that in the end. The landlord helped with getting the electrician round and it turned out to be the heating elements in one of the heaters.

Well, we got there in the end and managed to cook, we were dangerously close to having to go out for Chinese though.

baby-kitty-dozing-off

But Forrest is still having a good snooze ...

Maar Forrest hebt leker slappen ...

An Unusual Friday Night

Well, it is an unusual Friday night. Mike is on the phone, as one of his collegues has to work and can not get his IT sorted properly, and there is no red wine in the house! WHAT???? That's what I said! Mike goes "out to work" and the red wine stocks get depleted!

I was just looking back on the entries - it can be therapeutic ... and I see that Mike and Greg bought Halo 3 on September 29th - they both clocked it on October 22 - same day - kinda weird they clocked it on the same day and kinda weird they clocked it in three weeks! That's gotta be therapeutic ...

A Tribute to Eddy

Eddy (on left) passed away on October 12th, not long after we took this photo. She lived quite happily with diabetes for the better half of a year, but lost in the end. Patsy, misses her best girlfriend, but says "Cheers, thanks a lot, it was great knowing you."

The Ballingstraat quartet is now the Ballingstraat Trio (one tenor and two sopranos).

Forrest pays homage to the heat god...

Forrest is making the most of the cold temperatures, he is a heat magnet!!!!

Brrrrrrr!!!!!

The last two days we have woken up to beautiful clear skies and minus temperatures!!!! Winter is here already so we are totally glad we got the fire wood in a couple of weeks ago. (Side note: Huge THANKS to Greg who, at the drop of a hat, helped us in moving the 4 cubic metres on a Sunday afternoon). Monday morning it was -2 and this morning is was only 0.8 degrees, noice!!!! Finally, Sue got to wear her Hugo Boss wollen coat she bought in Milan before last winter. Last winter only gave her one oportunity to wear it and now she has had two days out of it already .... tres noice!

Says Mik - "What's a Melee?"

The Autumn Sun

The Autumn sun sits on the trees like a big red cheese
The haze fades away into the thinning forest
The pumpkins come, numbered one, two, three
Sitting on the stoop to scare away the hairy melee

KRISA LOOKING SUPER GEORGEOUS!!!!

Another Flatty ...

Mental note, have to go an buy better tubes, second flat as in as many rides ...

Another Sunday Morning

Today we decided to defy gravity and ageivity and went off on the M-Bikes again.

Photos to follow soon as Blogger "is currently experiencing a problem - that they are aware of and are currently working on!" ...

But, anyway, radically, Sue did not fall off today (thanking the gods!), butt was still black and blue from last weekend. The only person that did fall off today managed to do it big time... Mike drew blood!

Nothing that a couple of Duvels and Ribekjes van Gebrokenhof can't fix though...

They even managed to get two, one full and one empty, into their kennel outside!

There WAS 6 milk bottles!

There was 6 milk bottles sitting on the floor

There was 6 milk bottles sitting on the floor

And if two Yorkies spot them

There aint no milk no more

There is only two milk bottles left sitting on the floor

M Biking

Yesterday we went Mountain biking for, really, the first time. Sue won the prize for falling into the widest variety of things ... mud, gravel and blackberry bushes.

Kris won the prize for falling into the most painfull thing... Stinging Nettles, just before we took this foto. She had an excuse though it was the flat tyre (picture Greg and Mike fixing the tyre), Sue just lost her balance and left a nice big assprint in the mud!!!!

TADAH!!!!

Here she is, finally we got around to taking a photo of the new auto. She arrived last Thursday and it took us ages to get to the airport to take back the rental. We didn't end up eating till 9pm that night.

Mike figured out the voice control today, very groovy!

Sue took her to Avenue Louise shopping on Saturday (a very hip place to shop with all the Italian designer shops!). All week it had been foggy so she forgot the sunnys, then the sun came out and, picture this driving (well crawling really) down Avenue Louise with no sun glasses ... VERY UNCOOL! She went with a new collegue and friend from Canada (Ronaye), ended up having to drive around the whole inner ring of Brussels ... well, just showing Ronaye around!!!!

Fotos of the beema are coming soon ...

Watch this space! .... we had a full on weekend, been on the M Bikes ... loads of bruises .. will keep you posted soon! ...

The Pink Panther

Well, gotta say...yesterday and today was pretty stressfull. THE PINK PANTHER decided to escape!!! (pronounced, esskarpay). Yesterday we got a phonecall from Aunty Nicky saying Forrest, AKA the pink panther, was on the loose. He had managed to get through the barricades and into the nighbours. Aunty Nicky saved the day, Sue came home and made sure the section was Forrest proof (secure!). THEN, picture this, today 1330 Sue is on the A16 from Rotterdam to Brussels, takes a phone call from Aunty Nicky ... Forrest has escaped again ... the nieghbour (burman) has put him back four times. In drives Sue, 1830, Mike is Forrest proofing the section again ........................ tommorrow will tell..... THE PINK PANTER STRIKES AGAIN!!!!!

Lady Lipstick has Arrived

So the Ladies arrived safely. Woohoo ... Kris couldn't wait for the boys bikes to arrive so we went for a ride in the forest on Saturday. Mental note: will have to put a little pink ribbon on mine, so we can tell them apart. It was a hoot, quite a different ride to the road bikes. Kris won the gumbie of the day award from a fall ... hope she's OK today.

John Doan playing Harpolyre music by Fernando Sor

Have you ever seen this before?

Fairy Land

It's mushroom season, and Mike spied these ones in the Fairy Land at the "top" of our garden. Under the trees at the front of the garden, they are there ... and if you look really closely you can see the Fairies sleeping under them. Well we can anyway! If you open your mind just a little more you can see them dancing around every hour or so...