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.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Only in Austria


On our drive to Vienna we spotted a rather funny advert on a van.


Without us..... It would be dark????

Our house is a seductive blue!

August was a beautiful, sunny month, with temperatures averaging in the late 30’s. We managed to do various jobs and relaxing. Over a few weekends, we painted the outside of the house. This led to Ian balancing on a ladder trying to reach the top of the house (with a worried wife moaning at him). But after much hard work, with Ian up the ladder and myself painting the lower half, the house looks a‘seductive blue’ (the name of the paint).
We still have the white around the windows to finish, but we plan on doing that this weekend as, fingers crossed, the weather will still be hot and sunny.
We had people from the Caritas (home for the disabled) watching us work, tourists asking where the windmill, Retz centre, and various villages were, and our noisy new neighbours working hard on their house opposite us.

We also managed to take a couple of bike rides. I decided that it was far too hot to be cycling, and waited for a Saturday afternoon when the temperature suddenly dropped 15c…trainers on and bikes out. Little did I know it was the build up to a storm, and by the time we decided to turn back the wind was howling and it took us ages to get home cycling into the wind.




The fields are now starting to look sparse, with all the crops harvested. The grapes are now being driven around in tractors and delivered to the ‘squashing places’ ready for the 2011 wine. Even the pumpkins are starting to disappear. We were very shocked at the size of the pumpkin below.
After another drive to the Czech Republic, we purchased some more M&S bread mix, and attempted to produce Tiger bread. It was semi-successful, as you can see in the photo, but still not right.

We managed to take a walk in the sun and fly Ian’s helicopters, much to the amusement of some kids, who couldn’t quite work out what nationality we were. We could hear them discussing us, and then speaking German, Czech and English to see if they got a response from us. So we decided to ignore them and keep them guessing.



Morpheus also had a hairdressing appointment, where upon we decided he would look so much better with a Mohawk!
So September has arrived and work is busy leading up to the big general conference week, where I am arranging two large exhibitions. The free pens and post it notes have yet to arrive, and I still haven’t checked the newly printed exhibition…but hey a couple of days remain before panic sets in