Holiday Summer 2010

Day 1 Monday - Nante - sarah with school friends Anne

and Piaf

Day 1 - To Nante by train to visit Piaf and family - walk into Nante - great chocolate shops!

Day 2 Tues - Paris - Along the Seine - from Place to Concorde to Notre Dame - visit to Amanda and family in St Germaine en Laye

Day 3 - Wed Belgium - Blaenkenberg - fish restaurant and beach

Day 4 Thurs 15th August - Brugges

Day 4 - De Hahn (the cock) - seaside resort

Day 4 - Barbecue with Luc

Day 5 - 16th August - Gent

Day 6 - 17th JulyHolland - Gieten

Day 7 18th July- Holland Schierrmonnikoog island

Day 8 - 19th August, Germany - Bensheim

Day 9 - 20th July Germany - Tubingen

Turi, May 2010

rachel in oliver twist
the airstrip. turi
the junior school from across the playing fields

early morning walk in the eucalyptus woods
naomi with her old RS teacher

Caterpillar invasion!!

the first thing we noticed was hundred of caterpillars descending from the trees on silk threads

it was like winter with the trees around the house completely stripped of leaves
caterpillars made cocoons everywhere
these are cocoons on the side of the house
less than a week later the butterflies were struggling out of the cocoons - many didn't manage it - maybe that is why there are so many

the final product!!

Sound of music

The best production of sound of music i have ever seen!!! (maybe a little biased though....)

House and Garden

landing reorganised by sarah with some of her dads books
hanging basket with mums marigolds!
the verandah with fire pit/table and new chair that henock
the daily egg count from our layers!
here are the beauties!!
hopeful chickens
chicken house
the stone wall almost completed
this is the wall which collapsed and is now replaced with sacks and faced with stone
plants around the pool
henocks chair and table
the wall repaired with sacks- not the most beautiful but seems to work
The new greenhouse with aubergines, tomatoes, lettuce etc etc
finally a bumper crop of cucumbers!
The grape vines and the courgettes also looking helping
isaac making some shade to protect the seedlings from the strong sunlight
the path was subsiding so we are excavating and using the sacks to build it up.