Trees

In honour of the trees which have grown

when we weren't looking!

Summer's Close

Hello there,

I guess for all of us (except you over there in New Zealand, Australia....), summer's drawing to a close. Not in the sense that the nights are drawing in and the leaves are turning, but in the sense that it's time to pack school bags again and to quietly realise that time will no longer, entirely, be our own again.

Yet, I know now that however busy and mad the months ahead may be, we've got memories to keep us going and to energise us when the going gets tough.

As I write, we're still in New Deer where, and here you may think I'm mad, the weather has just been perfect : 20*C cloudy with sunny spells. Now that's what I call good summer weather! We can sleep easy at night under cosy blankets and yet go out and play during the day. And each day has found us outside, not only doing the tour of the local playparks (there are some good ones), but also having barbecues on different beaches.... and that has meant the kids have discovered the fun of splashing in the sea, digging around in rockpools, and how the word 'sandwich' got its name!

In the last couple of weeks, I've had the chance to catch up with a number of great friends. Incredibly, 20 years have passed since I left school and 30 years have passed since we moved into the village. Yet, I still feel about the same as I did back then... and so the only way I can really 'sense' that time has passed is by looking at groups of children playing - for they contain my children, which seems incredible - and by looking at the trees. What? Yes, it's the trees which give the game away... for those trees which were young and spindly and not worth climbing when I was younger have grown tall and handsome. They're lovely to see... but they are the final signposts that so many years have truly gone by... and I do need them for I do still feel much the same as I did when I was six!

So, here's to the six year old inside all of us,
hugs,
Robynxxxx

Kite Flying Days

Ben and Jack, flying their kite

Jack's in the bottom right, filling his bucket with sea water.

Emma's watching her Dad's kite

Emma heading out to sea!

Print your Photos

Hello there,

My brother-in-law - Régis - recently set up a photo printing company: Tirages Pro.

They print professional photographs which can render your images absolutely and simply beautiful!

At the moment, he's running a competition from his facebook page which would allow you to win a 40*60 copy of one of your photos!

To me, that sounds like a great excuse to go on over to his site....
hugs to one and all,
Robynxxxx

Annette's Patchworks

Hello,

While we were in Les Omergues, Ben's mother - Annette - ran a week long exhibition of her patchworks.

As you'll see if you follow this link and this link, she designs and creates her works of art in a quite breath-taking fashion!

hugs to one and all,
Robynx

Summer Holidays!

Hello there,

Just wanted to let you know that we're enjoying our summer holidays!

So far, we've spent 2 weeks in Provence, a long weekend in the Alps, time at home in Mutzig, some days in the Wirral in the north of England, and now we're in Scotland for 3 weeks!

Yep, French summer holidays are long and brilliant!In the meantime, we've also just put our apartment in Mutzig on the market, as we're in the process of buying a house in Molsheim (just a couple of miles away). I'll tell you more about that project later on, but for now... if you're looking to buy an apartment in Mutzig, you know where to look :-)

Hoping your own projects are going well, wherever you are in the world!

love n hugs,

Robynxxxx