I took this photo yesterday morning. Our neighbours have a small pond without any fish in it and as a result they have lots of dragonfly nymphs in it. There is a small fountain int he pond which creates a dome effect of water. Yesterday morning they discovered that one of the Nymphs had climbed [...]

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Oma had been battling against poor health for a few years now with one thing after another gradually making her more and more weary. Oma fell very ill several weeks ago and was operated on to try and improve her blood circulation. Sadly the operation failed and despite Oma making it through the operation, she [...]

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A few weeks ago Becs, Hannah and I decided to head out to Lake Garda for a nice long weekend in the sun. It was a very wet 5 hour drive through along the Brenner pass through Austria and down into Italy but by the time we actually got close to our campsite it was [...]

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Hi there peeps. Hope all is well where you are in the world. To be frank, Munich is soggy and cold at the moment but hoping it will dry up and warm up soon!
For those who need a top up of Hannah, here you go!

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Mandy and Dave have been with us this week and we have been doing all sorts of fun things. With the sun finally out to play we decided to go for a little boat ride from Starnberg to Tutzing. It was lovely and the boat reminded us a little bit of the QE2 - just [...]

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It has finally happened!
Hannah is walking! At 20 months she has got there! Its been a bit of a suprise to us as she has a problem with her ankles and we are currently awaiting several appointments to see what needed to be done. She has been walking well holding onto a finger for a couple [...]

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We are loving the fact that the snow has now gone and that Spring has finally arrived! Hannah is walking now but not quite on her own. She can manage to walk about 150 metres when she holds onto a finger or two but can only manage about 3 or 4 steps on her own [...]

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IMG_7327, originally uploaded by danlayphotos.

We bought Hannah a little table and two chairs today. She has spent much of the the afternoon drawing and sticking with Mummy as more snow fell outside! At the moment, Hannah is into a little manic journalist frog called Jelly and Hannah and Becs are busy making a lookalike in [...]

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IKEA!, originally uploaded by danlayphotos.

Been doing lots of building of Ikea flat pack.
Now have lots of Allen Keys.
Destined for the “man-draw” methinks!

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Well these blogs are a bit like buses - we don’t write one for ages and then we write two in two days!
As Dan has already said, we had a wonderful time back in Oxford over Christmas - lots of good company, good food and good wine! We are now back in Munich and I [...]

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