Sunday 28 June 2009

Friday 26 June 2009

June 26 - stag beetle

Clearing away tree trunks out of a flower bed to make room for our deck, Andy came across this stag beetle!




And here a picture of the flowers that are making the garden look glorious - maybe a rose garden is not such a bad thing after all!


Tuesday 23 June 2009

June 22 WELL DONE KEVIN!!!!

Kevin passed his exams with good marks.
Marks are given out of 10, with 10 being the top and a 5 would be considered to just manage to pass, unless you had 2 or 3 of them, in which case they make you re-sit those subjects.

He achieved a 7 for Dutch, Trade and for Administration, a 6 for English and for Social Sciences and an 8 for Maths!

Monday 22 June 2009

June 21

And the greenfinch (groenling) love the black sunflower seeds we put out for them.

This garden is full of birds - we have seen 13 different birds in our garden! Will try to photograph them all at some point!

June 20

Visitors in our garden include this goldfinch - the photo was taken trough the kitchen window!

June 19

Pine cones burn well !!

Wednesday 17 June 2009

June 16

New face!! Well, new glasses anyway...




and for comparison.. these were the old glasses:

Thursday 11 June 2009

June 11

This tree deposits enormous amounts of pollen on our car every day... not to mention very large pinecones..

June 10

This is what I did today... I learned basic First Aid for work!

Tuesday 9 June 2009

June 9

Anyone any idea what kind of poppy this is???

June 8

This one is for my sister Elly, whose birthday it is today!

June 7th

I need to get this photograph into a software program and fix the darkness of the building but keeping the dramatic sky!

This shows the old prison here in Reading, where Oscar Wilde was once held, and the latest addition of office buildings almost next to it!

Sunday 7 June 2009

June 6

OK not taken today... I took this one on June 2nd, when we went to Abingdon to collect our wedding photographs.
Still pretty though!

Saturday 6 June 2009

June 5

My colleague Luisa with her new toy!

June 4

Last night of our honeymoon... time to return to the real world soon...

June 3

View from our hotelroom on honeymoon in Kalithea, Greece: this was the pool where we spent most of our time - being lazy and soaking up the sunshine!

June 2

Guess what I saw on the way home - from the aeroplane yesterday?? Yes, the Alps!! How cool was that??!!

June 1 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Our first dance: a waltz to "Annie's song" by John Denver

May 31 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Weddingcake - made by auntie Peg: chocolate cake, fruit cake and victoria sponge cake.. yummy!!

May 30 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Bridal party in the park

May 29 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Surrounded by some of the people we love.

May 28 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Assigning our lives to each other

May 27 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Marriage!

May 26 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

Elko walks me up the stairs outside the town hall in Wallingford

May 25 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

A moment of laughter with Karen and Elko, before leaving the house in the 1952 Bentley

May 24 - more pictures of wedding, as we've gone on honeymoon!

The groom and his best man: his son Matthew

May 23 - our wedding day