New House

Sunday Amelia and Rhian came to visit and we all went to Clemency to see how the new house was coming along not very fast was the answer. Amelia and Rhian went all the way to the loft but as there are no stairs yet I only went up to the first floor. We were going to have a drink at the cafe but it was closed. I planted up some summer pots for the garden to give a bit of colour. The weather has been quite warm and sunny. Spring is on the way

Bastogne

Tuesday we went to town to buy a new purse and a bag it has a double zip so hopefuly there will be no repeat performance. Thursday was sunny and Malcolm has longed to go to the Bastogne scince watching Band of Brothers. The museum was very moving as they showed a film of the actual action that took place there.. There is a huge monument to those Americans who lost their lives but we found the little monument at Foy to be more personal it looks quite new as the plants have not yet grown. The woods behind and the village must have looked very similar to how they look now. Grandad Sam went into his nursing home but after only a few houres he fell and broke his hip. He is now back in the Queensway hospital.

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Monday we had an Easter egg hunt in the garden there were not many places to hide the eggs but we did our best. Later we had an English tea with hot cross buns and cake. Romain showed us how to turn on the outside tap it worked rather too well much to everyone's amusement.

Easter Holidays

Monday and Its the Easter holidays at last but Abigail has tonsillitis so we took the children shopping and out for lunch so she could have a sleep. Rhian stayed the night as we were off to the zoo for the day on Tuesday. It was chilly at Park Marvelo but we all had a good time, apart from waiting two hours for our lunch. Amelia had an audition as as extra for the new Flawless film and it was Romains birthday so a busy time for us all. Thursday our friends Phil & June came to stay. We had a quick trip around the city and then dinner at Abigails. Friday we went to Vianden Castle it was also Emilies 6th birthday. Saturday we went to the city to see the sights where I had my purse stolen not much money but my I.D. document was taken.We had coffee at Urban and met up with Amelia and Rhian who had just been to the airport to collect Rhian's friend from Chester. We all went to vist the Casemates in the city walls.
We had dinner in our local restaurant the Beierhaascht for the first time. Sunday after visiting the police station, Phil and June wanted to go to the area known as Little Switzerland we had a precarious climb in Larochete due to all the rain and a wonderful lunch then a trip to the airport to see them off . Amelia had a days filming with Michael Cain and Demi Moore.

What No BRAKES?

Malcolm drove the car very carefuly to the Honda garage. By the time he got there the whistling had turned to grinding. The bill was only 1,335 euros not bad if you say it very fast, for brakes, pads, calipers and other related things. We had to stay at Abigail's for the week as it took untill Friday to repair. Emilie had a mini holiday with her class at a farm in the north of Luxembourg where she saw lots of animals and learnt all about bees and honey. Malcolm powerwashed the back garden so that the children could play out as the weather is very pleasant. Frankie was still poorly with a chest infection and by Thursday Abigail had caught the bug and couldn't talk but it was the end of term and she strugled in to school for the last morning.We made it back to our appartment feeling that we had been away for weeks.

England

We flew back to England on Wednesday night from Hann it was the first time we had driven there it was a bit tricky but we found it O.K. We stayed with Aaron and Anna then Thursday morning Aaron drove us to meet Colin at South Mimms then to pick up Linda at Willen. Oli had made us lunch which was very welcome. I decided to be dropped off in Nottingham to stay with my mum for the night as she had just heard that Grandad Sam would have to go into a nursing home and was a little upset.Colin Linda and Malcolm continued on their way up north to Workington where they met up with the rest of the family for the funeral. I did some shopping for mum and visited Sam at the hospital a couple of times we even managed to view a couple of nursing homes.
Malcolm picked me up on Friday Linda and Keith put us up for the night in Willen. Keith made us an English breakfast that went down a treat. Colin drove us to South Mimms where we met Arron who drove us back to Southend. I did some shopping in the high st very de ja vous. I had a quick visit to see Trisha in the afternoon and in the evening June & Phil Angela and Paul were there to so that was very nice. Sunday Aaron and Anna cooked us a wonderful roast dinner then Aaron took us to the airport for our flight home. We drove from Hann to Abigails with a whistling noise from the brakes but as it was very late at night we tried to ignore it till the morning Big mistake.