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Der Weihnachtsmarkt: Glühwein und Waffeln und Lebkuchen

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finknottle · 01/12/2008 10:53

Hope I typed that right, have lead in my boots this morning. Had a great weekend with lots of Glühwein and Weinschorlen and Nikoläuser.
Didn't get back from a Christmas party till 8 last night and too late to make the Kranz. I usually start decorating on Dec 1st so will do that with d after school and then light a candle tonight.
We're in the UK as well for C'mas but I still do decorations, put the tree baubles in glass vases so even they get an outing.
I love white fairy lights, put some all over the place and in the evenings leave the lamps off and light downstairs with fairy lights alone.

The tree lighting on Saturday was great fun, friends of ours were there and their 13 yr old d took mine to the fire & waited 15 mins in the crowds for Nikolaus while I was plied with Glühwein.
Think my ideal Christmas is Advent here and C'mas day in the UK, then back here for Sylvester. So this year should be good.
Mind you when we're here we have roast beef on the 25th, or goose. Think if I served Truthahn, h would clobber me with it.

Taipo have mailed you.
Have only one school meeting this week but a stack of reports to write. It is very good for my rusty brain but v hard work getting into. Feel rather fragile this morning, housework beckons and all I want is a bucket of tea and an aspirin

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VienneseTart · 08/12/2008 20:19

a very good reason for a curry

a clean bathroom......

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:20

How many channels do you get then? Hardly ever anything worth watching is there?

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:21

If I was making it probably !

VienneseTart · 08/12/2008 20:21

it is nearly all grissly murders

on nearly all thirty channels

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:23

so long as it isn't Thomas Gottschalk, Promi-dinner or the Singende Firma. Would drive me to contemplate a grisly murder myself

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:25

TV is so bad here that even my dc have stopped watching it, they hardly ever bother nowadays!

Myhammer is easy. You have to register then you put an offer online, what you want doing and how much you want to pay (that's the trickiest bit so you have to look through other similar offers to get an idea of what to put) then Handwerker bid to get the job stating how much they would do it for and you can pick the one you find most suitable. For example for our move I had about 7 or 8 Handwerker offering to do the job but I didn't take the cheapest one as he had a few bad references. I got the move for about 600 Euro and the offer I got from a removal company was 1400 and the famous Zapf company wanted 2300 Euro!

VienneseTart · 08/12/2008 20:27

ds is still

young and loves the awful cartoons

dh hunting for choc

as he brought in the curry

shall go and seek some

till later.....

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:29

Ooh that reminds me I've got a chocolate nikolaus in the hall on top of the cupboard - hidden from offspring. Yum...

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:30

Like the idea of a household where you have to hunt for the chocolate. Where could it be?! "I'm sure I left it at the back of my sock drawer." "No you did last time, that's the first place I looked."

Thanks admy so it works a bit like Ebay then. Will have to investigate, dh as you know being on the lower end of the male practicability scale, bless him.

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:33

Yes, bless them all eh...grrr, no sorry ahhhh.

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:34

ah well season of goodwill you know

Honestly though does anyone truly like Thomas Gottschalk?

MmeHereWeGoAWassailLindt · 08/12/2008 20:37

I am not saying a word against DH today as he is the one who found our new cleaning lady who is starting on Wednesday.

LOL at admylin drugging her dh into ungrumpyness

My neighbour brought us some brownies

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:40

what are you going to get her to do ML?

I wish some bright spark (like admylin's ds) would find a way of permanently eradicating dust. I think I might go severly short-sighted and refuse to see it anymore.

Sigh

VienneseTart · 08/12/2008 20:44

only

I know where the choc is

dusting
arrrggghh

sweeping

arrgghhh

cooking is fine...cakes anyway

need to phone dd

off to hunt out the phone now

MmeHereWeGoAWassailLindt · 08/12/2008 20:44

Well, she is coming for 3 hours so she should manage to do the floors and the bathrooms plus some bits and pieces. Our cleaner in D came for 2 hours but we have 2 bathrooms + the guest bathroom

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:46

Anothe name for you ZZZen: goldfrankinZZZenseandmyrrh
Or: ZZZilentnight

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:48

oh very good admy. You're in good form. Thanks!

What do you reckon, will V. T. find the phone next to the chocolate?!

CHristmas in Geneva very diff to Chrsitmas in Germany ML?

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:49

Have you managed to find a decent babysitter yet in Geneva? I think we need one to try and get out a couple of times a month at least. Hard to find someone you can trust though isn't it. HAve you got one ZZZen? Not that your dh is home often enough to go out - bit like mine really but he should make an effort and if we had the babysitting problem sorted he maybe would.

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:49

I very often have to phone my phone with my mobile to find it!

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 20:50

would rather go out with the babysitter tbh

More chance of having a conversation

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 20:54

now now, a minute ago we were blessing them...

VienneseTart · 08/12/2008 21:00

my babysitter is my dd

shizzle

been emailing my brother

came back

need to find phone

off again

admysteltoe · 08/12/2008 21:02

My neighbour keeps saying her 17 year old son will babysit but I somehow don't think he offered.

MmeHereWeGoAWassailLindt · 08/12/2008 21:03

ZzzzztilleNacht

ZZZen · 08/12/2008 21:04

Like the style of that Viennese Tart! What is a Viennese tart anyway?

Her posts always sound like a spy code quickly rapped out and relayed back to HQ

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