Tom tom

I can't believe it, the Ants are back....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh

Mmmm.

Was getting ready for winter. Guess I'm not the only one. 

DAMMIT!

On the bright side...

Picked fresh chillies, did not pick 'matoes... Could not summon the energy. Drilled to install the three heaters where they should be now that Dan and Zara have sorted my electricity. 

Now beware, my kitchen is heavily guarded. Yes by Rabbid and The Russian Mummy. 

 Put up all the curtains for winter. Strung Rachel's carambollas. 

Then I moved back to my room. Which meant had to go visit the tiny flowers that lives in the cupboard while transferring back me clothes and sweet talk the drangonflies into a circle... 

Not sure where the keys, the monkeys, the pegs and the death star in technicolor belong...

Where we learn from The Great Tatami

One Republic - Counting stars

Noel magique - Magical Xmas

Mum did everything mum can. She tidied the house, baked for hours, placed carefully one by one cristals and balls on the window sill, lights. Dressed a magnificent and colourful table. Made a real Xmas log (=buche)
We got lucky enough to talk to several loved ones during the night and stayed up until midnight!!!!
Five minutes earlier Mano prepare the little santa tea, with carefully selected sweets and biscuits.
After talking to Jean we went to watch a little bits of asdf to make up for the last quarter of an hour.

Wishing you all a merry Christmas! Lots of love from us.

On y est presque!!!!

Nothing will stop her...

Friday eve

The sun finally came out. Mum did some gardening today too!
Went to get the flashy colours. Big day tomorrow. Tackling kitchen and side walls.
Clearwater Cove 2012 (Remplacant Bonnannay 2011).
Me regarde pas comme ca Rachel, c'est pas notre faute si on l'a pas trouve...

Three days later ...

 Day one = prep work

 Test pots

Day three: SuperFranz did all this ALONE!!!!!

I feel like a slave worker bossman.

She is amazing.

And talking about jetlag, I got to bed before her...

I feel young and totally efficient...

Pink Martini - Je ne veux pas travailler


... pas sur que je vous la rende.

! Herman stays at home

Unbelievable. Just got given a Herman the German.
Alive.
And I need to keep it so for ten days.
Curious?

here's the explanation...

Maman dans 6360 minutes...

a tout ceux qui ont lu "au lit dans 10 minutes"...

Sous les roses blanches et rouges

Mina et Zia nous ont quitte cette semaine, d'une mort naturelle, elles avainet toute les deux plus de deux ans.
Nous sommes sur que la ou elles sont, elles trouvent quand meme moyen de grignoter des crepes et des hamacs.
Bises de nous.

Merci!

Lots of surprises were expecting us last night, all packed up on our doorstep. We dutifully attached the praying flags to the side of the house. Looks so colourful! The mice are trying out their shoe. And we opened a few goodies to ensure they survived the trip.
Thanks so much!

Happy/lucky us.

On n'echappe pas ...

a Charles Ingalls.

Ouaip.

Donc hier, Mano et moi ecoutions docilement Gene qui nous apprennait a couper du bois. Parce que c'est pas tout de commander du bois, dans une maison a chemine sans radiateurs. Le bois il est trop gros, faut debiter. Ouaip.

Alors voila.
J'ai beau m'acheter des chaussettes mi-mollets rouges et blanches pirates. On n'echappe pas a "la petite maison dans la prairie". Donc note pour plus tard, quand Mano aura des soucis avec les filles, maintenant j'ai la parade. Je ferai Charlette Ingalls en tapant avec ma hache et faisant la morale du monde. Prends ca Albert.

En attendant, vu que j'avais des rideaux a fabriquer(parce que c'est aussi version rideau ultra fin d'origine, qui a froid l'hiver???
Mano a passe le plus clair de l'apres midi avec la hache (Mama mia!) et regarde ca comme j'ai du bois pour la semaine qu'il a parfaitement coupe  (c'est vraiment tout lui, oui maman j'ai pretendu ne pas savoir qu'il avait une hache dans la main)

Alors dans le desordre:
La recette du crumble du chat qui tousse (straight out of the web)

Le Mano qui surfe

et aussi le futur poster dans la chambre de Mano

Et le robot que Paul a ramene de Paris pour Mano:

et les jeux de Mina et Zia (mais la elles dorment, parce que j'ai lave la cage...)

Bon Charles Ingalls pour le script d'accord  mais bon quand meme...soundtrack

Jon Bon Jovi - The Blaze of Glory

Out inside

The battle of land and sea - Saltwater Queen

NIght scene

Lisa Hannigan - Little bird

Les petits parapluies...

Week end project, in between sanding and sealing the shower step, cutting up a tree, weeding another garden, and ... breaking my left-handside mirror, as you do in a new home in tree Moreau fashion :-) (hence duct tape work on the car and mirror replacement...)

So beware! I've got a glue gun now. Waiting to hear tonight if Mano likes the lamp...