Pod is found

Some time ago I spotted that the London Eye had lost one of its pod.


Had it fallen down or had someone stolen it?


Yesterday morning I was happy to see it floating in the river.


The eye will be complete again. Hurray!

Glorious morning

It has really turned dark now in the mornings. When I leave in the morning to get my train it is still dark! In a way it is rather depressing.

However I'm usually quickly cheered up again by the beautiful sunrises I get to see. Some days the mist is majestically sweeping across the fields. Other days the light is fantastically golden. Like yesterday morning.

By the time I reached London the sun had just risen and the colours were just amazing. A fab time to be travelling down the river Thames.

Engagement party

Our cunning plan has succeeded ;-)
Our bestman and brides maid got engaged a couple of weeks ago! Today we celebrated their engagement with a visit to our old faithful Crooked Surgeon, which isn't so old and faithful anymore as they have changed to into the chain Slug and Lettuce.

As custom has it we had to get them an engagement present. Their engagement took place in Dublin so two engraved Guiness pint glasses were the obvious choice.

The happy couple seemed to think so too..


However, I have a sneaking suspicion that the bride-to-be likes the box the most...

New hat

Suprise suprise! A present awaited me as I came home tonight.

My talented mother has been at it again. This time she has knitted me a fab hat. Thank you!

Weekend in Sweden

Just had a fab and long weekend at my parents' place.


One if the highlights was the inauguration of their garden house. Dad had been busy building this fantastic garden house as an extension to the barn. We spent every evening in there!


Their hanging chairs had finally found a place again. I can tell you I've had lots of fun playing in these chairs as a kid. It is a miracle they are still usable!


Dad and my brother enjoying the garden house.


The salad is coming along quit nicely in the beds.


My brother had got mom and dad a very kitch clock in black plastic which is thoroughly inspected here by dad.


On Saturday we had a crayfish party as an inauguration party. Mom had got 8 kilos if crayfish to share between the five of us. Unnecessary to say, we didn't finish it all. So we had crayfish on Sunday too :-).


Friday and Saturday had been shopping days for me. I was on the hunt for curtains and sofa fabrics. In the end I managed to find curtains for three rooms. One for our newly decorated laundry room, one for our office/guest room and one extra pair for our bedroom as our current ones are a bit too light.


On Sunday we managed to sew them all!

For Rob

Out on our anniversary dinner. Spotted this in the drinks menu. As this is Rob's favourite (the caipirinha that is) I had to photograph it and put it on the blog. Now we are going to enjoy a very nice dinner at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen.

Box room finished!

For the past weekends we've been busy decorating the box room. We have had fun with stripping paint, filling holes, sanding and painting both the walls and the wood works.




This weekend the paint job was all done. We now had a sunny green/yellow (dulux forest lake 6 & 4) room. So it was time to put up the shelving system.



That took us almost a whole day. We hadn't got the easiest to assemble shelves from ikea. There were four poles that needed to be fixed against the wall and the floor. And to make it extra tricky they had to be in the exact right position in order for the shelves to fit in.





We managed without any major disasters or miscalculations. Yippie! Well, we did get too few fittings so the last shelf and clothes rack have to wait until our ikea delivery next Monday. But we are mighty pleased with our new laundry/storage room (stryk rum)!