Author Archives: andrew.walker
Darth Maul revisited
As you all know, I’m a major Star Wars geek. I take it a step further than most and actually dress up as the characters from the films. Geeky, yes but, when you consider that I’ve used my costumes to … Continue reading
A clean bill of health
With everything else we’ve been doing we forgot to mention that the results from Carl’s health check came back. He’s clear of everything so now you can feel free to bring your kids to visit
Gōng Xǐ Fā Cái
This week it was Chinese New Year. We walked across the lake to Johan and Anna’s to celebrate with a bunch of other people with children adopted from China.
Homemade Chinese dumplings
On Saturday we are going to some friends to celebrate Chinese New Year. Everyone has to bring some food so we decided to make dumplings (which are Carl’s favourite). We thought it would be a good idea to practice first. … Continue reading
The masterpiece is complete
Thanks to the wonderful Mr Geert Roovers, I found exactly what I needed to finish the desk. We have now moved back in and Carl is online .
New desk
While they were over dad and I built a new desk for our office. Now that Carl is online we need more space for our computers. Sadly we were too busy working ot take too many pictures. I need to … Continue reading
Old folks visit
Mum and dad were over from N Ireland to visit Carl for the first time. Since we also had Theodor for the weekend and Carl is still settling in, they have been staying with Åsa’s mum but we’ve seen them … Continue reading
Service time for the car
The car was due for a service so I took it in today. It was pretty cool because I could wait while they did it and they offered free lunch, coffee and web access. Well I had just eaten lunch … Continue reading
New TV shelves
We got a bit tired of our dull old IKEA TV unit shelf so we decided to replace it. It turned out great! All that remains now is to get a new screen. The one we have now is a … Continue reading
Bad day, good day…
Today started off crappy. Carl didn’t sleep well during the night so was very grumpy. The horrid weather didn’t help at all. Obviously what you do on a cold rainy day is go to an open farm so that’s just … Continue reading