http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/ news from and about our southern nest en-us ccm.mtedit@vanriet.com Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:24:19 +0100 http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003298.html Paul, Nique, Vanne en Tiem arrived and brought along a huge wet tent from their mountain camping experience. Looks quite nice in our staircase, no?... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003297.html We found a baby owl. Anybody knows what kind this might be? It has little ears. We hebben een uiltje gevonden. Weet iemand wat voor soort dit kan zijn? Het heeft kleine oortjes... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003296.html The bridge next to our friend's house is the location for the annual fireworks display to celebrate Bastille Day. Walter and Vali generously invite all their friends (approx 100 ppl) to come and enjoy from closeby. And Close It... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003295.html Annelies has been making a couple of lavenderbombs from our lavendar and they look almost to cute to be true. They've been informally dangling above our kitchentable and some in clothes cupboards. And then today some catalogue arrived and... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003293.html Annelies, David, John en ik hadden ons eerste echte 2010-diner in de tuin. Heerlijk, gezellig en mooi om de avond te zien invallen.... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003292.html voila. Hier zijn knoersels. Tenminste zo noemde mijn opa ze. Na drie jaar geven ze eindelijk vruchten. Volgens mijn vader heten ze eigenlijk "kruisbessen", maar we waren het erover eens dat "knoersels" veel beter was. En bovendien is die... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003291.html I've tried sourdough bread making before but ran into some problems: mainly the rising of the dough and the keeping of the sour dough-mother. I asked Craig - our local bread master - to teach me propperly rather then me... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003290.html Transition Towns team arrived on monday with their tongues on their shoes. They'd had done the Alps (Switserland Austria France) and were headed towards the Pyrenees: BY BIKE. We had a great time!... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003287.html John drummed everybody up for a jolly lunch-presentation. Between the twelve of us we only had two bottles of wine. (He asks: What is happening to us) Despite the dry behaviour I did sneak off to my siesta-bed after two... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003286.html At noon our friends are coming for a presentation about Transition Towns that John has organised. That doesn't mean there's no time for a bit of gardening, oh no. We were in the allotment at 6:30 and John mended the... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003288.html The annual roofing business. Bernard and Veronique came to put the stuff on the pergola. In theory we'll have roof covering by the Ivy in a couple of years but for the moment we still have to put the... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003285.html Annelies came by to help me taking the berries of the stems. Took us almost 1.5 hours, and then the processing started. Washing, weighing, sterilizing, pouring, labeling... phew. Whilst watching "le Foot" with one eye - which was enough since... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003284.html 8 kilo's of red berries... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003283.html In case there were visitors in the allotment wondering about my huge sunglasses, hat and scarf: it was humping day. In fact it has been humping day for the whole of last week. Lizards on top of eachother barely aware... http://www.vanriet.com/blogs/GANGES/archives/003281.html