After seeing my friend's blog, I decided it would be nice to share our lives in Austria with family and friends. Whether or not I have the motivation to do this is another question.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

What do I write about?

Well last weekend was a nice relaxing one, watched some classic blu-rays on my new blue-ray 3D player (although no 3D TV yet - maybe an idea for a birthday present :-)) - inception and iron man. Another amazing bargain I purchased.
The nice wife that I am, told Ian to play XBox on Sunday while I tidied around the house. As you can see this is the usual set up for Ian, move the chair so he can be as close to the action as possible and can rest his feet on the unit and shoot away.


As we later watched 'Got to Dance', Neo wanted a cuddle from daddy.

Ian then found Morph on our bed, so took the opportunity to shave a few knots from his belly. People may think this sounds kinda cruel, but as you can see from the video, he actually doesn't mind it, although he makes a quick exit when Ian tells him he's finished. Can you belive Neo and Morpheus are now 10 years old (in fact I think it is their birthday this week).









Another item I thought I would share with you is my workplace, so people can try and see where I work. The photo below is a view from my office window (ok I admit the photo was not taken today as there would be snow everywhere).

Here is a photo of my office, currently squeezing 3 people in it. I share with 2 girls in their early 20's, which is making me feel very old, especially when
they complain they are nearly 40..... I miss my old office mate Mollsie, my American best friend and almost twin (she was born 2 days earlier than me).

I bought the boys a new toy last week, you can see their responce. I apologise for the majority of my posts being about cats, but we are the crazy cat people and they are our babies.



This weekend, was cold and cloudy, so we decided to hibernate in our house and watch the 3 bourne films. Basically a blog boring week,:-)

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Welcome to the Pattison's blog



Welcome to 'the Pattison's blog'. Its Saturday morning and as usual Ian and I are in our dressing gowns planning what we should be doing instead of sitting on the couch playing on laptops and ipads. maybe we should paint the house, clean the house, go to Brno or simply vegetate on the couch all day.
As you can see on the photos, the Pattison children are energetic and raring to go.

Soochi asleep on the office chair.
Tank being woken up on the climbing frame.
Tara looking slightly annoyed for waking her up too.
Morph sleeping in a box (the polystyrene squeaked everytime he moved).
Neo sleeping in the cat bed (kindly donated by for BFF Mollie).

Last weekend, Sunday was a beautiful sunny day and so we went to local park to fly Ian's new helicopter - model helicopter - I think the Retzers would have had a heart attack if it were a real helicopter. So here is a photo and video of the first flight. What the video does not show is 10 seconds later, after I told Ian to fly higher, it did a nose dive into the mud, oops. Not to worry Ian has a new found passion for taking helicopters apart and rebuilding them on the dining room table.
By the way, if you are wondering why this helicopter has 4 yellow balls sticking out at the bottom, these are 'Eugene's' training wheels ( makes it easier to land apparently).

Video:



Right decision made - we are going to the pet shop so we can feed the sleeping beauties.
xx