Christmas 2012

Christmas is here! Vánoce, vánoce už jsou.
In the Czech Republic, we celebrate on Christmas Eve. So yesterday, we had a session together with aunt and uncle in their flat, and then supper (soup, schitzel and potato salad) and present opening at cousin's. Then TV. It was more fun watching Mirka (my cousin) cite (very accurately) every single line of the film, which she has seen hundreds of times) rather than the film itself. Santa came this morning to us as well, so we have done Christmas now. It was very, very calm and Christmassy and Jack is now playing with remote control car. We are still on coffee.








Happy Christmas everyone!!!

New skis

Michael writes...


I bought some cross-country skis cheap from a friend. I have never tried this sport before. Looking at the photo, can you tell?

Somehow Jack managed to look younger...

...even when going uphill...

!!!

I have written to the seller asking for instructions regarding steering and stopping as, trying whatever seemed intuitive, neither seemed to occur except by accident.

Michael

Winter's back

A fair sprinkling of snow on Thursday which has lingered. Jack caught the bus to school on Thursday and Friday. We had to cancel a pub trip yesterday, but had some beer at home, so invited friends over instead. Today a group of us went to the fundraiser of a Steiner school (there are quite a few in the Czech Republic) , which was fun because it was in a part of Prague I had never been to before. The temperature here is around zero most of the time. I have a week of getting reading for the Christmas presentation to parents and parents' evenings coming up so will try not to be ill again. Laryngitis last week. Can't wait for the holidays.