Anya arrived today all the way from sunny Melbourne. She picked the day of German unity to land in Berlin - although it was raining and very windy the whole day, so we can't report on any events that took place today at Brandenburger Tor (there was a curiour show of huge puppet figures). Lufthansa actually decided to be ahead of schedule, by about 10 minutes, which is unusual for an evening flight. As we were making our way to the airport we saw some planes landing in what were very windy conditions indeed. As Anya came out she reported that the landing was unfortunately pretty bumpy. But she's here, and with a nice selection of Tim Tams, and Lemingtons(!!!) for your humble authors - so all is very good.
In other home-related news, Jack has been wonderful and cleaned up our balconies for winter... and yesterday we sorted out our storage room. A couple of months ago in order to win back some space there I took buckets of paint that we have left over and put them on the small balcony. That required taking everying out of our 1m x 1m storage room (which is packed to the brim) and then rearranging it all back. I was very proud of my three hour effort. However, when Jack got home he very reasonably pointed out that it's not good to keep paint on the balcony, because it'll freeze in winter. Doh. So yesterday we played tetris again, and now the paint is back in the storage room, and instead it's all the old tiles and glass that's on the balcony this time. Phew...
our guest season doesn't seem to finish. We were supposed to get a break between mum and Anya, but now some of our friends need somewhere to stay for a week. :-D
ReplyDeleteWe are so lucky to have a garage - lots of space to pile up stuff (could be a disadvantage as some of the other garages are packed full and starting to overflow - hopefully we won't reach that stage)