Here you'll find a back catalogue of items from the home page.. a kind of creative dumping ground.. just in case
you missed it!
Christmas 2008.. well we just about made it.. we were all very ill just before,
but we made the festivities... oh and the tree looked lovely.
'Dad do you think we've overdone the Christmas decorations a bit?'
Here's Big Daddy.. with Big Father Christmas.
Wow what a whooper! and Father Christmas is big too!
It's October
With little old Monty Marmot safely asleep for the winter I can safely show you this wonderful vintage postcard
from 1950 of an Eagle hunting a marmot.
Find a word to describe the goings on at CERN Geneva?
It's difficult! We've had the webcams on our website for the last few years, but on 10 September 2008 the first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered
around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The protons travel the 27 kilometres
11000 times per second! Faster than Swiss Railways!! This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two
decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery. God is amazing and now he's letting us in on some of the
secrets. Find out more with videos of an amazing day here!
Below we're getting our feet back on the ground after a wonderful paragliding flight
to Interlaken's Hohematte (I've done it and it FAB!!) Picture courtesy of the excellent www.beo-news.ch
Well.. 'we loved the ... Tyrol' Ummm doesn't quite have the ring of our daily chant of several years
that 'we love the Bernese Oberland, but we had a good time. It was an enjoyable and fascinating experience to visit Austria
again. Yes the mountains are smaller, but they are still very impressive. There are plenty of excellent walks and plenty to
do for families, and in our limited experience, I reckon Austria just pips the Oberland to the medals for customer
service. Of course, we have pangs for the Oberland everyday, and we'll be returning very soon. As you may
have heard Catherine was ill in Austria with a throat infection which led to complications and three quiet days unable
to move from the apartment, but she is well now, and back to her 'robust' self!! Many thanks for all your kind
wishes for her speedy recovery. 100% attendance record at school all last year, and she goes and gets ill on holiday.. ho
hum!
Catherine in a healthier moment on the balcony!
We were staying in Ehrwald at the foot of the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany, and accessible
from both Germany and Austria. By the wonders of modern communication (and the fact that we're both loopy), I arranged with
Martin and his family, staying in the Bernese Oberland at the same time as we were in Austria that we should take a
sunset photo at exactly the same time Wednesday night at 20.30 CET. Firstly the Bernese Oberland following a big thunderstorm
at 6pm..
.. and now from Ehrwald Austria.. a thunderstorm is brewing in a neighbouring valley!
The 3rd Incrowd Get Together happened in August in the Bernese Oberland, and
there are a few photos on the Incrowd page.
How big can a fondue be?
That is..
how big can a fondue be if it's not at our house?
Well this big!!
Click the pic for a link to the excellent Beo-News website (in German)
to find out more
Well with the UK economy looking so fantastic (well someone's got to talk it
up!) Thoughts are turning to holidays, and for us, trips to the mountains... but not the dear old Bernese Oberland this
year. We've bailed out of an exchange rate that gives us 20% less buying power than a few years back. We
just can't afford it. But we're not 'crumbling' in Britain.. far from it. It's all the fault of the rest of the world! Oh
and by the way, we're not in recession yet... apparently. Ho hum.. off my soap box and into prayer. I've put something appropriate
on my thoughts page.
Rosemarie has been rambling again, this time to the top of the 13th century Schloss in her home town of
Ringgenberg near Interlaken. Steeped in history (the castle not Rosemarie!) it is now open to the public! As across the website,
please 'click the pics' for a larger or as in the photo above a super high resolution view!
June 08 and Hannah walks!! Oh and Catherine skips on a trampolene!
We got one up on the Queen on one Saturday in June. The flypast for
Trooping the Colour, as usual flew right over our house on it's way to Buckingham Palace, so we got to see it 15
minutes earlier than her majesty. The only thing we missed was the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, who are too slow
for the jets and join up with the main group over Essex somewhere. Any road up, here is a short video of the event over our
garden! Quicktime on the link, or Window Media on the player( don't forget you can right click select 'zoom' and click 'full
screen' for a more cinematic experience)
