October 2008

The Professionals have come into action in the renovations now. The painter has come and gone and the wooden floor has been repaired sanded and resealed. The Apartment is looking really good. The new appliances arrived but the Oven door exploded when Michelle opened it. It appears to be a manufacturing fault with too much tension in the glass, so it is yet another delay.  We just couldn't wait any longer for the first skiing of the season. We went to Sass Fee and were surprised just how good the snow was. There was a little dusting of reasonable fresh snow on the Piste. It was great, but as usual the legs got tired, we really need to start training. Winter seems to be on its way in a hurry we even had the first snow fall in Lützelflüh. Everyone in Switzerland was a bit caught out with the about of snow, we had about 20 cm at 600m asl. In the mountains they had over 50 cm in places.  The trains were seriously delay because a lot of broken tree branches ( they hadn't lost there leaves yet).

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September 2008

Time really flies. It seems incredible but Simons has celebrated his first birthday. We went around for dinner, he didn't understand what was going on with so many people there, but loved ripping the wrapping paper and was fascinated by the candle on his cake. The other highlight of the month was Thelma's and Alan's holiday in the Berner Oberland. We took the opportunity to travel there in the evenings to spend some time with them. They had a really great time listening to what the did each day.  Their  week in Switzerland was certainly filled. Petra and Olav came to visit.  The renovations have changed from the destructive phase into the constructive phase. The new wall is going it and we have ordered the new kitchen appliances, it looks a bit tight for renting on the first of November.

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August 2008

Swiss National day was a rather dreary start to the month. You never knew if it was going to rain or not. We risked it and went walking in Sörenberg, we are scouting out some potential off piste routes for the coming winter. It is about this time of year winter seems such along way away in spite of the cold temperatures we are having. The ground floor apartment is now empty so we have started the renovations. We are doing quite a bit ourselves, its fun to be able to rip out the old wall. The new insulation was a very messy job with Bitumen sealer, Michelle was in her element getting dirty.  Its a much bigger job than we anticipated. Come the middle of August the weather has improved considerably we had a Brunch up on the Marbachegg with Karin, Res and family.  We walked down to help burn off some of the calories consumed. It was definitely a month for hiking, at the end of the month we went with the SHG from Burgdorf (a group Michelle helps run). We visited an Ostrich farm, we had an interesting tour, it was amazing to see an 80kg man standing on an egg and it not break.

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July 2008

Where hast the summer gone? It is the season of thunderstorms and rainy shower weekends, you never quite know what to wear at the moment, or know if you can go out on the motorbike.  Duncan celebrated his 50th Birthday on his own by going to the Sumiswald motorbike meet was on again this year. It only happens every 2 years. Duncan had to go on his own as Michelle was off in Germany on a course.  Really bad timing. She gave him a beer seminar, where you learn about beer and get to brew your own in the Micro Brewery we discovered in Langnau last month. The date is still to be arranged.

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