Lund Blog

Despite COVID 19, 2020 has been an interesting and exciting year for the Lund family. Both Ulla & I reached the old age of 84 with flying flags- still difficult to grasp.

The year began with me having to adjust to my new pace maker from the USA. For many years as a surgeon, I myself have put pace makers into my patients, but it is something completely different to get one myself, and not least to get my family not to consider me disabled, and every time I lifted a cup sat they looked at me to see if I could handle it (joke).

 

The pacemaker is fantastic, so all people should have it as a birthday present when they turn 70. I have just been to a year of control, and it works 100%, but it has ONLY 9.4 years left of power (joke), so when I turn 93, it must have a new battery – says the surgeon ;;;. I’m in good shape, I walk 6 km a day, and Ulla stays in good shape with a lot of gymnastics. We enjoy life and each other, and just take one day at a time, the future is not so long anymore. Ulla has taken up old recipes again, so we eat food as our mother made it, she also has new dishes from all over the world, and I enjoy being a guest in a 5 * restaurant.

We, like everyone else, have had to conform to the COVID 19 restrictions, but probably have more experience of epidemics than most other people. Over the years, we have been through 3 cholera epidemics and 1 typhus epidemic, where I was the doctor who treated the patients. In Kenya – December 1973 – one patient died between the hands of Ulla & I, after which we sent a very poor Pt, with the laboratory answer and the diagnosis (cholera) to Nairobi. At the same time ordered 10,000 doses of vaccine down by plane to the farm. I received an angry letter from the Ministry of Health stating that I could not diagnose Cholera, but as I was clearly hysterical, they sent 5000 doses of vaccine down to us. Ten days later the government admitted that there was cholera in the country, and over the next few days we vaccinated 15,000 of our people.

Despite restrictions, we have seen our grandchildren once a week, with the excuse that they  had pain in the ears, and they needed to be seen by a doctor, so they came with cotton wool in the ears,  in cash they were to be stopped on the way. Kristien adhered strictly to the rules, so we did not see him for a couple of months, but when they lifted the lock down, he came to visit us again. He had grown so much at that time that I barely recognized him. He goes to Windsor Boy school, where his hobby is rowing, which he goes all the way up to, so much so that he meets for training three times a week at 06.45 before school starts, plus rowing every Saturday. Their trainer is a former Olympics gold medal winner, so it’s really serious training. He is now also doing well in school  and really enjoy  it there. Mikkel & Helena go to another school, and both do well despite teaching at home most of the year. Helena is our little mathematician and football girl, while Mikkel is developing into a little philosopher with sharp and interesting ideas. In August we all went to a German circus show at the Ascot race course- the only thing we had attended apart from the weekly supermarket visit.- It was a good experience, but from my point of view  it lacked the smell of horses and sawdust.

Unfortunately we have not been able to travel this year, but let’s all hope we can meet again in 2021. We are fortunately enjoying the lovely place we live in the middle of a large forest, small lakes and a lot of wildlife, so good opportunities for long walks . Ulla has her little garden, which she always enjoys working in, and we have lots of birds in our “restaurant”, which we enjoy watching. We certainly do not lack anything as we have 6 supermarkets, doctors, dentists, physiotherapist and pharmacies within 6 minutes drive, so we live really centrally.

 

Claus and his family are fine, and the company he works for has paid 80% of his salary_Furlough- during the 6 months lock down, where he has then been able to stay home and help the children with their school work, as well as build new computers and not least help us two old people with our computer problems. In November he started on Amazon movies again full time in the office, but they are tested for Corona 2 times a week, sitting all alone in a large room, so he is pretty safe. Working only 5 minutes drive from home, a huge advantage over the long road to London, so now he saves at least 3 hours a day. Stephanie keeps the whole family together, and does a great job, and in addition she makes beautiful post / Christmas cards as you can see.

Friendship is the oil that lubricates the engine of life.

Red wine helps too.

 

Finally, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and let’s hope we can all be together with our family over Christmas. Here we will be allowed to be together from 23-12 to 27-12, so we can enjoy John’s pancake Little Christmas Eve here and Christmas Eve with the family in Windsor.

 

Happy New Year and let’s hope 2021 will be a better year for all of us.

 

 

Best wishes and we hope you all are well and hopefully we can see each other in 2021.

Dear FRIENDS and families.

It is the last day in November and time to write and hopefully receive Christmas letters from our dear friends all over the world.

 

It has not been the best year in our life, no traveling apart from John’s two short trips to Denmark. First in January to spend time together for the last time with his oldest friend, Henning.

The two of them have been like brothers since they were six years old and ever since have been I nearly daily contact via Skype. Sadly Henning died in June, so John went over for his funeral while I stayed home to look after our old dog, but the loss of Henning has made a big hole in our hearts. It is the worst thing about getting old (we are now 82)- that we lose more and more old friends every year. Several of our closest friends have had serious health problems so not an easy year for the lot of us.

The biggest shock came from our daughter in the form of a letter 1^st Sunday in Advent 2017, where she has decided not to have anything more to do with us. She want to spend her time together with her friends and dogs in the future. We have been her parents for 52 years, but suddenly she wrote that Ulla has been such a bad mother to her all her life. As a doctor the only explanation I can find must be her jealousy for her brother and his three children. Naturally Ulla has spent more time with the grandchildren than with her 8 dogs over the past 12 years so my explanation is she has become paranoid. We know from rumors she has been in contact with a physiologist, as if that should be helpful;;; The blame for her problems have been laid on her old parents which we have to accept after having done our best for her all our life.

On a happier note.  We are still very happy with the move three years ago to our little house in Bracknell, big enough for the two of us and Ulla has enough space for all her plants in our little garden. Bracknell is a nice town, with nice neighbors and we have all the shops in a short distance from our house. Another happy experience is that three of our long time Thule friends celebrated their 60^th birthday and a couple of other old friends had their 80^th birthday, so a lot to be happy about. Both our 82 years birthdays were celebrated in our old Windsor house where Stephanie and Claus threw us a very nice party, and in July we were there for Claus’s 51^st party together with all his old friends, and it is always a joy to meet the “old” boys” again as we have know them since they were teenagers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

our three grandchildren –now 12, 10 & 7 years old- continue to give us a lot of joy, they are just so lovely, well behaved and funny and we enjoy every moment together with them. Claus has had to do weekly commutes the last three months, so only home at weekends, and both Stephanie and the children have missed him a lot but Stephanie has done a great job of keeping everything working at home, so 10 stars to her .

 

We are lucky to have the children every Saturday or Sunday form breakfast to lunch plus in half term and in holidays, during which we took them to some musicals – “Madagascar” and “Robin Hood” in our local theatre, where we also go to other interesting events. We also celebrated Anita’s birthday in October in The Royal Windsor theater with the musical performance of “Motown”, a very noise but fun performance.

All the Christmas decorations are up, small Christmas lights in all the rooms, gift bought and wrapped so now it is time for the Christmas baking, which we start together with the Children baking gingerbread cakes first Sunday in Advent.

We wish you all a Very merry Christmas and a good and prosperous New Year. We hope you are well and hopefully enjoying life to the full. Remember we have no return tickets to this life.

 

YOUTH PASSES, BUT WITH LUCK IMMATURITY CAN LAST A LIFETIME.

 

LOTS OF LOVE FROM ULLA & JOHN

 

CHIRSTMAS LETTER 2016 .

 

DEAR FAMILY & FRIENDS.

 

Christmas is upon us again and time to sit down and write a “brief” report of the family Lund’s activities during 2016 where so many lovely things have happened.

First visit came from Australia where Tima’s old friend John came with his wife, daughter and her boyfriend , so nice to see John again after so many years and also to meet his lovely family. and we all had a nice lunch in Windsor together with Tima.

 

The early springtime was difficult as our good friend Jim died few weeks after his 78th birthday of his melanoma cancer, and the last few month were very hard both for us and not least for his wife,

Anita, but of course we tried to help as much as possible. It is just so sad to lose another good friend.

Luckily we still had Kristien here every day from early morning to after school as he still had not got a place at a school in Windsor like his siblings, but I enjoyed having him and to attend functions at his school now and then. Claus continued to come here every Saturday morning with all three children for our breakfast club, a time I enjoy very much.

I then spend a lot of time trying to organize my 80th birthday, as I wanted to celebrate it in Denmark on Egeskov Castle’s Heartland Festival together with as many of my friends as possible. Not all were able to attend ,so instead we drove round in Denmark & Sweden visiting them and invited them out to dinner where they lived . We would have to drive all the way via Holland, Germany and then a ferry to Bornholm (DK) as there is no ferry from UK to DK anymore . It would be a 5000 km trip so we decided to buy a new car as my first present , and it is of course a Clio in flaming red  a lovely car that got us safe all the way with John as the driver.

 

First stop was the little island, Bornholm, to visit Anker & Ulla for three days. We drove round the beautiful Island enjoying the landscape , visiting art galleries and the highlight was a gourmet dinner at Stammershalle restaurant in celebrating of 3 x 80th birthdays namely mine, John’s & Anker’s, and what an unforgettable dinner that was, so thank you so much Anker & Ulla , also for all the champagne.

Second stop Gl. Holte to visit Lone & Soeren. We celebrated my birthday again by a trip to “Bakken” ( an amusement park)

Third stop was Alleroed  to see Ruth & Joergen (old Kenya friends) with more good food, champagne and a trip to Ravnsholt forest in the nice summer weather.

Forth stop was a quick lunch with Hanne & Henning in Ishoej as they had promised to come to Egeskov on my birthday.

On to Hundested to visit Inge & Sven for a couple of days again with lots of good food and not least excellent company. Trip to the harbor to see several art exhibitions and still enjoying lovely sunshine.

 

Fifth stop Lysekil in Sweden to visit our old friends Ann-Kersti & Jan to see their new  “down sized” house,

 

which was fantastic and not at all small and they still have a lovely garden both outside and indoors. The whole upstairs was a guest apartment where we enjoyed some relaxing days, good food and more champagne. In celebration of our birthdays they invited us for dinner down at the harbor where we could dine outside in the nice summer evening

 

 

 

 

Six stop Strandby in Denmark for more celebration, together with Pernille & Bjarne and their three children We celebrated Sigurd’s 24 birthday with a grill party on the terrace and he had made the most fantastic lemon mousse for dessert

as he remembered, it was John’s favorite dessert. Nice gesture from a young man. John & I took a trip to Skagen museum to see their new exhibition,

which was great and then a walk in this charming town plus a drink at the waterfront before driving back to Pernille, who had prepared my favorite dinner, fresh small fish filled

Seventh stop was Skoedstrup for a 24 hour’s visit to Else (another good friend from Kenya). More good food outside in the hot sunshine and a trip to Aros in Aarhus to experience their fantastic Rainbow installation plus a quick tour through the Music  house.

 

Last stop in Jutland was Viborg to visit John’s family and more birthday celebrations.

 

I invited the family to “Lakridsen” for a dinner, and the next day is was cousin Ebbe’s birthday where he invited the whole family-children & grandchildren included to another good restaurant in Viborg for dinner.

 

Sunday cousin Suzanne & Erik invited us and the family to a special exhibition at the Prince barracks museum ( One Erik has arranged), and it ended with lots of homemade cakes and more Champagne, what a treat.

The final stop in DK was Odense where we stayed  with Lolita & Soeren ( Friends from Borneo).

We spend a whole day in the fantastic Odense Zoo, where Lolita work as volunteer, so she was a good guide. On my birthday 11 June after a very special breakfast with Champagne we all drove to Egeskov Castle and the Heartland Festival. Joining us were Pernille & Bjarne, Hanne & Henning, Lolita & Soeren plus Anita from UK and

 

then came the best present I could have wished for. John had arrange for Claus, Stevie and my three lovely grandchildren to fly over from UK to be with” bedstemor” Ulla on her big day.

We all enjoyed the whole day which finished with a banquet dinner in a big tent again with lots of Champagne.

I was sorry that Tima could not come but she had her work plus all her dogs to look after.

Back in UK for Kristien’s 10th birthday which we celebrated with a trip to Tower of London together with Claus & Mikkel.

It was a great day out., where the boys experienced both trains, the Undergrounds and a trip on the Thames plus dinner in a restaurant, not bad for a party.

 

 

 

 

Mikkel’s 8th birthday was celebrated with a day trip to Legoland where he decided what to do and where to have lunch. On Helena’s birthday she also wanted a trip to Legoland but this time with the other grandparents..

 

 

 

 

 

The 21st  July was Kristien’s last day at Harman Water school in Bracknell after having attended it for six years.

 

He finally got a place at St. Edmonds Royal Free school in Windsor where he is very pleased to be , but I have to admit I miss his daily visit . Mikkel & Helena are both very pleased with their good school in Windsor and all are doing well.

In September we celebrated John’s 80th birthday with a daytrip on the river Thames for the whole family in the most fantastic weather with picnic basket and more Champagne , another perfect day. Tima could not leave her puppies for a whole day so instead the three of us had a nice dinner in a lovely restaurant.

 

Tima is busy as always with all her dogs plus the four new litters- two of Cocker spaniels  + two of Alsatians  and a new job which she started in September. Luckily she can sell all her puppies as people are on a waiting list for them and she also produce very good dogs.

Claus & Stevie are busy extending our old house in Windsor into a “castle”, so it has been a little difficult year for the children with no place to play but hopefully they will be ready in the near future.

A big thank you to you all for making 2016 such a memorable year for us and thank you for all the presents. I know we are 80th but it is better to be over the hill than buried under it

 

 

Now it is time for the Christmas celebration. The food is ordered, the ducks and lobsters in Tima’s freezer, and we are having the traditional Danish Christmas dinner in our small house but we will manage

 

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a good and prosperous New year and we look forward to hear all your news from 2016.

 

LOTS OF LOVE FROM ULLA & JOHN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHRISTMAS LETTER 2015       

 

    Dear friends and family.

 

It is last week in November and time to write and hopefully receive Christmas letters from our dear friends all over the world. I have just read some of our old Christmas letters which made me realize what a strange year 2015 has been for us. For the first time in our 61 years together we had not been travelling but had spend the whole year in UK. Why you may ask?

During Christmas 2014 we finally decided it was time to downsize as the house and not least my big garden were getting too much for me to keep in the shape I wanted. The best solution seemed to change house with Claus & Stevie, so they and their three active children could have our big house in Windsor and we could move to their smaller terrace house in Bracknell.

 

In mid January we had the survey and evaluation of the houses, got all the official papers to the solicitor, and then it took many months before all the paperwork were completed, so we finally could move houses 18 July just in time for the children’s school holiday. The downsizing meant we had to get rid of a lot of our furniture’s and it turned out that Tima wanted some of the bigger ones, and I must admit they look much better in her house. Claus wanted some and the rest was sold.

Now the big living room was  empty to make room for all the boxes Claus brought over every weekend until the room was filled to the ceiling. Then I started the big clear out of our clothes, children’s toys, porcelain, glasses, kitchen things and it all went down to the charity shop. The next couple of months were spend going through all our papers, old letters, sentimental things etc., and John scanned  all our photos from 60 years- 27000 in all- into the computer, so we got rid of all our albums( a little sad).

 

It was a very emotional spring where we relived our life together through letters, pictures, travels ect. and we spend several hours every day talking about our wonderful live together and remembering all the interesting people we had spend time together with over the years. I had to admit it was hard to throughout all the letters, as I had kept letters from my school friends since I was 7 , but I can promise you, we read every single word all your lovely friends had  written to us over the years.

 

We still found time to go to the Theatre Royal in Windsor a couple of times and several cinema visits together with Jim & Anita to see all the newest films. I spend several hours in my lovely garden each day to say goodbye to my plants for the last time.

I do not miss the house but I do miss my garden after having spend 22 years to make it perfect. I have taken some few plants in pots with me to the new small garden.

 

 

 

In May Helena was christen nearly four years old, and it was really her day, she enjoyed the whole ceremony in the church and the boys were involved as well , so it was a wonderful day. Then all three children had their birthday parties in the new house in July & August in nice weather, so we could enjoy the parties in the garden. My birthday was a really  treat as John had arranged a two days trip to Stratford Upon Avon

in beautiful weather, so after some sightseeing in the town we had dinner in Shakespeare’s theatre top restaurant before going down  to the theatre to see Othello which was a fantastic performance.

Over the weekend we had a nice dinner with the whole family at Harvester near the river before going back for the birthday cake in my old garden for a last time.

 

We still had Helena one day a week and the boys during half term until the summer holiday. Mikkel got into a school in Windsor straight away, but Helena had to come to the school in Bracknell for the first 10 days of the new term, and then she could start at the same school as Mikkel in Windsor. Kristien who is nine has still not got  a place in Windsor, which means that Claus  has to drive him to us in Bracknell every morning at 7.20, so he can have breakfast with us and play the computer until time for school. Stevie pick him up twice a week, John the drive him back to Windsor twice a week and nana Linda take him once a week, .

 

 

 

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The move was a big job as we were doing it ourselves, but after a long weekend everything were moved into the respective houses, and after two weeks all were unpacked and more or less in place.

We quite like our smaller house, and

John has  made his room into a submarine which he loves, he even got room for his piano ,all four computers and the dog.

Yes, Masai our big, black Alsatian is too big for the house- I think- but he has settled in very well. Claus had a big job installing our five computers, radio’s, TV’s and music ( the new Sonos system in the house), so all is working now.

 

The area is nice and green, lots of trees, small ponds and lots of places for working the dog. Bracknell town has got all the shops you can want, we have tree big supermarkets in five minutes drive from the house, and if you do not want to drive there are lots of busses going into town

 

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN THE PAST. I AM INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE, FOR THAT IS WHERE I EXPECT TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE

 

As you all know moving house is not cheap but now it is done and the new house is function fine especially after we had a new big opening to the loft made. John was nearly stuck up their the first time he got up there and I was afraid I would have to starve him until he could fit into the small hole to get down, but in the end he managed after breaking the hatch. We had to buy some new purpose built furniture to the house, and John hate me for still buying IKEA stuff and the one wardrobe took us five hours to built, so never more i promise.

 

John’s birthday in September got celebrated over several days as always. First Tima invited us to a wonderful restaurant in the forest for an evening meal, then the rest of the family came for dinner and birthday cake over the weekend.

 

Now it is time for the Christmas celebration and we are having the Danish Christmas dinner in Tima’s big house in Reading this year as she has got space for all of us including the dog. I have ordered the Danish pork Loin ( Flaeskesteg) from Denmark, the ducks are in the freezer so are the lobster’s for New Years Eve and the Christmas cakes will be baked first in December, so we will have a traditional Christmas as always.

 

We hope you all are well and are enjoying life to the full and we look forward to hear all your news from 2015.

 

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a good and prosperous New Year and we hope to see as many of you as possible in 2016.

 

Lots of love from ULLA & JOHN .

Click on picture to see our travel blog as we take a trip to Madagascar

Det er den sidste uge i November, og tid til at komme i kontakt med venner rundt omkring i verden til at ønske jer en glædelig jul og et godt nytår.

 

2013 har været Guld Bryllups år for os og flere af vores bedste venner, men hvordan kunne vi klare at fejre det sammen, når vi bor i forskellige lande, men det lykkedes. Det foerste var vores guldbryllup d, 10 April, og vi startede fejringen i weekenden før med en dejlig middag for hele familien og nogle venner på en restaurant i Reading

 

, hvor de server mad fra af forskellige lande, så både børn og voksne kunne få, hvad de kunne lide. Derefter ankom Pernille & Bjarne fra Danmark den 9ende, hvilket betød, at de var her paa selve dagen, som startede med en champagne-morgenmad. Vi fik en masse smukke gaver og blomster i loebet af dagen, så en stor tak til alle vores venner som paa den maade gjorde til en mindeværdig dag. Pernille & Bjarne inviterede os ud til middag i Windsor inden vi sluttede dagen i Theatre Royal med at se forestillingen “Maurices jubilæum”, en helt igennem dejlig og mindevaedig dag.

 

I maj tog vi på en tre ugers tur til Danmark & Sverige for at fortsaette fejringen. Som altid var foerst stop Viborg, for at besoege John’s familie, hvilket altid er en dejlig oplevelse, og derefter et kort stop til Strandby hos Pernille & Bjarne ,hvor vi havde nogle hyggelige dage, før vi sejlede til Sverige og den næste guldbryllup fest hos Ann Kerstin & Jan i Lysekil. Ann Keratin havde forberedt en lækker middag  og vi medbragte guld champagne, saa vi havde en dejlig aften sammen. Vi boede i deres  gaestehus et par dage og naaede en tur til “Havets Hus”, et flot nyt akvarium i Lysekil . Naeste dag tog  vi en dagtur til “Naeverkaeret”, hvor den eneste boegeskov i den del af Sverige findes, og hvor vi kunne nyde de  nyudsprungne Anemoner samt  de oevrige forarsblomster; en skoen dag i straalende solskin

 

Næste stop var Baastad, hvor hele Pinse weekenden var en fejring af operasanger Birgit Nielson’s 95 års fødselsdag. Om lørdagen ,efter en flot koncert med masser af taler i byens centrum og i fint solskin, blev en smuk blå skulptur af Birgit afsløret på Birgit Nielsons square.

 

 

Søndag gik vi til åbningen af hendes nye museum, hvad der var en vidunderlig oplevelse. Festen sluttede med en koncert i Vaestra Karup kirke efter en dejlig middag hos Britt & Gunnar, i hvis hus vi boede. Vi fortsatte mandag morgen mod Halsingborg til en frokost med Per Holst i anledning af hans 75 års fødselsdag,

 

efterfulgt af et besøg til hans & Ann Kerstin’s sommerhus for kaffe, før vi tog færgen til Danmark og et besøg til det tredje guldbryllups par-Ruth & Jørgen i Allerød. Vi fejrede vores fælles party med en tur til forlystelsesparken “Bakken”, hvor vi foerst havde en dejlig middag, foer vi gik og saa aarets Bakke revue, så en flot aften trods det elendig vejr, hvor vi naesten druknede i regn.

 

Maj 23rd var dagen for Lone & Sørens guldbryllup, som de fejrede med en fantastisk frokost på en dejlig restaurant nær “Moelleaaen” med udsigt over den nyudsprungne boegeskov. Vi boede hos dem et par dage, og naaede en dagstur til “Den Blå Planet”, det nye store akvarium i København, som kan varmt anbefales et besoeg.

 

 

 

 

Derefter koerte vi videre til Kikhavn for et kort besøg hos Inge & Sven i deres sommerresidens. De havde arrangeret et

middagsselskab med nogle spændende mennesker, og en af dem var Aase, som vi ikke havde set i 30 år, (et dejligt gensyn), og det var også en uforglemmelig aften. Næste dag kørte vi til Ishoej for at spise frokost med Hanne & Henning. Jeg ved det,  vi spiser al for megen god mad ,når vi er i Danmark.

 

 

 

 

 

Sidste stop i DK var Odense hvor Lolita & hendes datter Soes inviterede os til den bedste restaurant i byen kaldet “Sortebro Kro”, og det var en stor kulinarisk oplevelse. Mad & service var perfekt og saa præsenterede de os med en gave, foer vi gik hjem.. En kæmpe tak til Lolita & Søren for den guldbryllupsgave.

 

 

 

Tilbage til UK den  1st juni til en dejlig sommer og alle familiens fødselsdage.Foerst min 77 aars dag,saa Kristien’s syvende, Claus’s 46 aars dag, Mikkel’s femte, Stephanie’s, saa Helena’s anden fødselsdagsfest og endelig John’s 77 i September. Vi havde børnene en del i deres sommerferie,og det sluttede med  en spændende dagsudflugt til National History Museum i London sammen med Tima, Claus & drengene. Nu traengte jeg til ferie, så vi tog et trip til Portugal sidste uge i september for  at besøge John & Lita, og selv om vejret ikke var det bedste, havde vi en dejlig tid igen med masser af god mad og Champagne. Vi havde et besøg til Cliff Richard vin gård i regnen og derefter da regnen stoppede tog vi til Guia for at se den fantastiske internationale Sand skulptur Festival , det var helt fantastisk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hele familien har det godt og alle er sunde og raske. Tima trives i sit job,som er  undervisning af meget underprivilegerede børn, et krævende job, men hun er meget god til det. Hendes hus er stadig fuld af hunde og hun har haft tre kuld hvalpe i år, to fra sine cocker spaniels og de blev alle solgt på ingen tid. Den sidste kuld er 10 dejlige, sort sjaeferhunde, som vores Masai er far til, så de skal nok blive perfekte;De er kun få uger gamle, men de første seks er allerede solgt, og folk staar i koe for at komme til at se dem  og forhaabentlig ogsaa koebe dem,da hun er en meget dygtig opdrætter 

 

 

Claus er stadig travlt beskaeftiget på sit arbejde, mens Stephanie passer huset og  deres tre børn. Jeg er heldig at have lille Helena hver mandag, og de  kommer alle på besøg hver weekend. Kristien har meget travlt, dels med skolearbejdet, og dels med svømning, Ninja og spejder, mens Mikkel kun deltage i svømning og;sit skolearbejde for tiden Han blev træt af Ninja, men ønsker at deltage igen, når han bliver syv. Sidste semester laerte tredie klasse, som erKristien’s – om Afrika, så som sit projekt  inviterede han John & mig til at komme på skolen og fortælle børnene om vores erfaringer fra Afrika. Vi ankom med masser af vores afrikanske ting & masser af billeder – omkring  en halv times show, og da der er tre tredie klasser, maatte vi koere vores show tre gange. Derefter ønskede Mikkel at vi ogsaa kom til hans foerste klasse med vores show, så vi havde en meget travl og utrolig morsom dag. Børnene var alle så interesserede og havde masser af gode spørgsmål, og vi nød virkelig dagen.

 

 Vi sprang over den store ferierejse i år, og i stedet brugte vi pengene til at opgradere hus. Jeg fik et nyt køkken gulv, et stort solidt egetraesbord  med seks komfortable laeder stole; John fik et egetraes skrivebord, ny kontorstol, nogle egetraes reoler & nye lamper, så nu  elsker han sit kontor, som er  fyldt med 4 computere, det store klaver samt alle hans bøger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vi har været i biografen en del gange i år sammen med Anita & Jim, og da vi går til senior forestillingerne  midt paa dagen, har vi tid til at mødes til drinks og lidt hygge bagefter, saa det er nogle dejlige dage. Vi har set: “LINCOLN”, PHILOMENA, Kaptajn PHILLIPS og THE BUTLER, alle meget gode film. Anita & jeg havde vores årlige besøg til Windsor & Eton Opera, hvor vi så “IL TROVATORE”, som var en fantastisk opsaetning. Denne uge  vil vi deltage i ” Jul hos Fenwick’s”, hvor jeg plejede at arbejde her i Windsor, og da det er om aftenen, kan vi gaa og nyde byen’s juleudsmykning samt The Queen’s store juletræ uden for Windsor Castle.

 

 

Juleforberedelserne er i fuld sving da Tima & jeg fik bagt  en kæmpe portion “Vanillie kranse” (berømte danske jul cookies) sidste weekend, og nu kan jeg klare resten af  bagningen alene.

 

 

Vi ønsker jer alle en rigtig glædelig jul samt de bedste oensker for et godt og lykkebringende nytaar,og vi ser frem til at hoere nyheder fra jer kaere venner og familie .

 

KAERLIG HILSEN  FRA ULLA & JOHN