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So, what’s been going on in the world of Kat and Loe…

- Our new house is still not quite finished yet, but it’s getting there

-  We are really enoying living in Ede

- Our puppy (Tobi ) is now 6 months old and doing really well

- We can now go for long walks with Tobi in the forest

- Loe is still enjoying her new job

- Loe got a pay rise!

- Loe is playing badminton again every week and loving it

And here’s some photos of Tobi:

This last one was taken after his coat had been plucked for the first time, which is why he looks a bit bald lol…and yes that’s a towel on him…his favourite kind of thing to play with!

I think Twitter is going to be easier to use, so I might switch to that, if people want to keep up with my (ahem) fabulous life

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For the sake of archiving my life here a bit still:
- we got a little puppy. His name is Tobias. He’s a dachshund. He is very naughty and also very cute and he keeps us busy all day LOL He’s currently taking a nap on our rug; dreaming of the mischief he is getting into next

Anyway, yes, Earth Day. I didn’t know it even existed, but for the occassion I’ll put the lyrics of the Pocahontas disney film in our blog. The lyrics sum up my beliefs about our precious planet, and the lines that I have made bold sum up my beliefs about education.

You think I’m an ignorant savage
And You’ve been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don’t know?
You don’t know…

You think you own whatever land you land on
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know ev’ry rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You’ll learn things you never knew,
you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of a mountain?
Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once,
never wonder what they’re worth.

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the other are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hope that never ends.

How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down then you’ll never know

And you’ll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon.
For wether we are white or copper-skinned
We just sing with all the voices of the mountain
We just paint with all the colors of the wind.

You can own the earth and still,
All you’ll own is earth until
You can paint with all the colors ohh the colors of the wind.

(lyrics written by Stephen Schwartz)

It’s absolutely lovely outside today. I’ve just spent an hour in the garden and it’s lovely! The birds were out, the sun was out, the little grape hyacinths are out. Lovely.

Something else that is lovely in our bookcase:

Happy Spring Time everyone!

- my new job is fantastic and challenging, so far!

- our house is sold! the buyer’s real estate agents were complete &*#()#bleep*@#s! grrrr! Not giving us any security in the whole deal and trying to get more money every step of the way, threatening not to sign. We held our own pretty well, and in the end they signed. Phew!

Hei ho! Off to work I go!

We are not at all used to having stairs in our house though. We used to have everything on the same floor. Now we are walking up and down those friggers twenty times before we can finally go to bed, because it seems like everytime you are on the top floor you remember something you’ve forgotten to

a) turn off
b) clear away
c) pick up to take upstairs with you
d) lock

argh… I’m hoping we’ll get used to it soon!

Our neighbours seem very nice, we hear birds instead of mopeds, upstairs’ base music or carhorns and the trees in our garden and opposite our street are absolutely stunning. I’m sure we’re going to like it here!

We have moved all our belongings to the new house, and we finished painting 75% of the house and finished about 50% of the laminated wooden flooring in the house. Phew! We have been able to sleep and live in the house for the past two days and we love it. There are still a few bureaucratic things to sort out, and there is a lot of DIY still to be done but so far so good!

We might be able to get internet, telephone and television again today. Fingers crossed. We’re probably not going to be properly up to being on the internet till the beginning of next week though.

Ah the wireless is still on! Better post this quickly!

Strange contrasting feelings. It felt like graduating and leaving the parental nest all at once.

Today we are going to pack everything we own in cardbord boxes and tomorrow it will be transported to our new house. That’s the plan anyway. Please all gods, may it work!

We might not have internet for a while. (Might be months, if it works the same way it did when I moved to here …grrr..I’m on the phone with them later today.) We might be able to sneak on the internet at my parents every once in a while though.

Kat said that she read somewhere that moving house is the number one reason for couples to split up. Hmm..lovely. You’ll know what happened when she is suddenly reporting from London LOL
Well, we survived putting several items of IKEA furniture together, so I suppose that gives us some level of security that we’ll get through this too

Hope you all have lovely weeks! See you on the other side!

PS for Bärbel: I present to you….

Oh yeah!