Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 12 – 8

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 12 – 8

Countdown to Christmas – Days 12 – 8 Sonia was right! Wanting to publish a blog every day was way too ambitious, particularly before Christmas. But in our review of 2018, July, August and September have become one overheated blurr in my mind anyway. Our...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 13

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 13

Countdown to Christmas – Day 13 Welcome to the second part of June! What you see above is a polyresin cat my friend Kasia gave me for my birthday last year – and it is a scarecrow. Not that it would scare our resident crows Odin and Freya but I had the...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 14

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 14

Countdown to Christmas – Day 14 We have reached the beginning of June. While I am still waiting for the perfect moment to catch Maxine, nature decides to interfere. On June 2nd the bump that turned out to be an abscess bursts open and Maxine seems relieved. She...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 15

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 15

Countdown to Christmas – Day 15 We are still in May. It is still warm and humid. And apart from preparing Joschi’s meals and force-feeding him several times a day, I have so much work to do that I have not even found the time to take photos – and...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 16

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 16

Countdown to Christmas – Day 16 Welcome to May 2018. As you know, all I managed to publish in May was the birthday blog for Marvi, Islay and Isfrid. Even though I had already collected the photos I was not able to congratulate Sander, Mrs. Peel and their...
Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 17

Weihnachts-Countdown: Tag 17

Countdown to Christmas – Day 17 Now to the things that happened last April that you don’t know yet: The medically trained eye of my sister thought that Maxine’s face looked swollen. Was there really a bump on her right cheek? I could not detect...