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During our ski holiday, we met this lovely couple. "M & I".

Bhavishya loved them. Especially "I". "I" gave me her business card. Since I didn't have my wallet when she gave it to me, I asked Mark to keep it. Guess what??? He lost it! SH**!!!

"I" if you read this, can you please leave me a comment or drop me an email? As mentioned to you on our last night in Belalp, we would love to keep in touch with you.

He mentioned it Sunday during lunch. Our friend MN was here. We started to joke and told him he has to go with an empty suitcase so he could buy tons of "Hello Kitty" stuff. Poor Mark who is surrounded by girls and who loves to travel L I G H T! LoL! Then the conversation deviated as to how he should buy me this:

Avis à M & M: Manquerait plus que les converses roses pour m'la jouer blondasse, non? MDR!!!

Les barettes papillons / butterfly hair pins:

Dans ma rubrique "Du côté de la cuisine" j'ai référencé le blog de Scally passionnée de cuisine. J'aime bien aller sur son blog, il y a pas mal de choses sympa, dont ce poste: Vous prendrez bien un goûté

Photo: Pascale Weeks

Je suis attentive à ce que je donne à manger à Bhavishya. J'achète presque tout bio pour elle et apporte une très grande importance à ce qu'elle ait une alimentation équilibrée. Bhavishya a une intolérance au lactose donc je ne lui donne ni lait de vache, ni beurre, ni fromage de vache, crème etc. Très tôt elle a appris de demander au comptoir des fromages pour une tranche "de fromage de grobis ou chève".

Comme Scally et Dominique, l'institutrice, je suis toujours frappée voir même choquée de voir combien de déchet nous avons tous les jours même en allant au magasin bio, en recyclant, bouteilles, PET, papiers et cartons, piles, ampoules etc.

J'étais ravie de trouver quelques recettes de goûté sympa et pour certaines sans lactose. Pour ceux et celles qui seraient intéressés, veuillez clicker ici pour trouver le livret (en libre téléchargement je tiens à préciser).

N.b. dans les recettes ou il y a beurre je remplace avec la magarine et le yaourt par du yaourt Grec de brebis.

Question Nr 2:

What happens when Miss B spends time with teenagers?
Que se passe-t-il lorsque Miss B passe du temps avec des ados?




Looks promising! Ca promet!

What happens when Miss B hangs out with teenagers?
Que se passe-t-il lorsque Miss B passe du temps avec des Ados?




Zac Efron...

Demain j'envoie des cadeaux / surprises à 4 copines...parceque j'en avais envie...
Qui sont les heureuses élues? Mystère et boule de gomme!

Tomorrow, I am sending some presents / surprises to 4 girlfriends...just because...
Who are the happy girls? It is a mystery!

A little hint / une allusion:

I have girlfriends age 0 to 99 years old! J'ai des copines agée de 0 à 99 ans ;-)

Chui super contente j'ai reçu ma commande de chez Decoccinelle / I'm happy I received my order from Decoccinelle.

Some of the stuff is for Miss B and some others are for gifts...

Certaines choses sont pour Miss B et d'autres pour cadeaux...

Ben cette année je n'enverrai certainement pas Miss B en colo. Par contre nous irons toute les 2 en stage de ressourcement familial au milieu et avec les ânes.

Voici la déscription:

• Apprentissages - approche de l’âne


• Balade avec guide du terroir « la vallée des lacs et des châteaux »


• Balade forestière


• Bivouac de 2 jours

Externat ou possibilité de planter sa tente (forfait de 5€ pour frais eau, wc). Possibilité de repas : 2€ petit déj, 3€ dîner, 4€ souper.

Je me réjouis d'ores et déjà!

Voici le site internet de l'Asinerie .

On Friday, after cleaning the house, going grocery shopping, getting some fresh fish at the fish mongers (My MiL and FiL were visiting for the w-e) I was on my way to pick up Miss B from school and...bang a truck ran into me!

Vendredi, après rangé et nettoyé la maison, après avoir fait les courses pour le w-e et avoir cherché le poisson à la poissonnerie (eh oui mes Beaup. étaient en visite chez nous pour le w-e) je me rendais à l'école de Miss B pour la chercher...et boum un camion me rentre dedans!

I could not believe it! I was stopped at the red light in the right lane, indicating to turn right, patiently waiting for the light to turn right. A truck was on my left. I did not think twice, I assumed he was going straight ahead...no I was wrong...he started to manoeuvre to turn right. Of course as soon as I realised what was going on (a fraction of a second) I huted, and huted and huted...too late, bang, his front right wheel hit my car, I could not control my car, with the impact, my car was projected onto the wall of a building hitting the right wing!

Je ne croyais pas ma poisse! Mes beaups allaient débarquer et moi bloquée avec le routier! Merde! Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé exactement? J'étais arrêtée au feu rouge sur la voie de droite, clignotant allumé, j'attendais patiement au feu de devenir vert. Le feu passe au vert, le camion tourne sur la droite, je réalise, claxonne, claxonne encore mais trop tard, sa roue heurte ma bagnole, avec l'impact, elle est projetée contre la façade de l'immeuble (donc les 2 côtés de la voiture ABIMES!).

VRAIMENT PAS DE BOL!

Poor Pashmina, she yelped, cried, and made the strangest sounds...she did not like the car to start with so now she really hates it. Let me tell you I was convinced she was badly hurt the way she screamed/cried...luckily it was just trauma.

Pauvre Pashminette, elle pleure, elle pousse des cris stridents, ça me fait mal au plus profond de moi, je me dis qu'elle est grièvement blessée. C'était le choc, la pauvre elle qui au départ n'aimait pas du tout la voiture elle a été gâtée! Inutile de dire qu'elle est traumatisée maintenant!

The verdict / le verdict:

• The car is undrivable / la bagnole est "inconduisable".
• 4'600 Euro of damage. 4'600 Euro de domages.
• The insurance is lending me a car (a VW polo diesel).L'assurence me prête une titine (une polo diesel).
• ...
  
  I feel lucky it is only the car that is damaged.
  Heureusement plus peur que de mal et que de dégats matériels! Ouf!
  
  

A dominican Church converted into a bookshop! Fascinating! They appeared to have renovated the church beautifully and then they placed (bolted in on the floor) a structure in black steel on one side of the church, not damaging any of the original structure.

I can only imagine the contreversy it must have had using a church for anything commercial but the way it has been renovated,in such an amazing way, the way the books are presented made me feel like it was done with much respect and I prefer this than having a church get into ruin because the clergy can no longer afford to keep it up. It is a way to preserve cultural heritage.

Une église dominicaine reconvertie en une librairie! Fascinant!




The Ceiling / Le plafond:




The coffee shop:


It has won an architectural interiors prize.

I fell in love with this old fashionned bakery!

Enjoy!



I guess with the "Z" she's got the British inflence of her Father ;-)

This shop is attached to "the Notre Dame" Church in Maastricht. Needless to say I just had to bring home some tulips!

More pictures later in the week...

Ha ha! (Inside Joke with D&Y ;-))

I had a blast with Yvonne and Dolly in Maastricht this week-end! It has been nearly as long as we have known them (nearly 5 years) that we said we would go to Holland with them. D&Y are our very good Dutch friends and "the parents" of Luna, Pashmina's best friend!

Well, this week end was the week end for me as we decided we to:

"Shop until we dropped" and we ate like pigs and drank like fish (litterly) HA!

I took 227 pictures with my Camera!

I did regret not taking Mark's camera because it is such a wonderful peace of equipement (thank you Amy for recomminding it) but I thought it was a little too big for a weekend out with the girls so I decided against it on Friday morning.

I must admit I was ever so reasonnable about the shopping...I bought 5 bunches of fresh tulips, 3 pots of white jacyinthes (I love the smell of them) , 3 pots of Muscaris and 6 of dark red helleborus (Christmas roses) one cannot resist buying flowers and bulbs in Holland. I also bought a light blue raw silk tie with some flowers for Mark, a lonely planet guide to India for us all, a fun thing for Easter for Bhavishya, some Dutch cheese for Mark and myself (Miss B being intollerent to Lactose) some beschuit and haagel (dark chocolate which is nicer because not too sweet and because it doesn't contain lactose) andsome Dutch cheese.

Oh and some fantastic magazine about gardining!

Voilà.

I bought these from Rachel's Itsy store. Here is the black one:


This is the brown one:



and received them in the mail last week.

Rachel makes them in her free time (I'm not sure when as she works as a medical doctor and has 4 kids...and she is on the C25K resolution!).

Her Itsy store is called "Simple Wishes" and the sale proceeds go toward projects for orphaned children. Last year she managed to make christmas special to 70 school age chirldren from a Russia Orphanage.

Thank you Rachel! They are great and I just love them. I took the black one with me to Holland this week-end.