24 - 30 March 2008

This week Justine took part in the Hausfrau Race, which involves skiing, and other typical hausfrau activities such as knocking back schnapps and knocking in nails.

17 - 23 March 2008

Apart from fish and chips, we still enjoy a lot of home comforts here. This week's visitors Nina and Margie replenished our stocks of marmite and chutney which were recently enjoyed whilst listening to Choral Evensong from Winchester Cathedral and Radio 4's The Moral Maze (last week featuring Justine's uncle Marcus!). Apparently we are also currently experiencing similar weather conditions - it snows and snows and snows, tiddlypom.

10 - 16 March 2008

Apparently this was a quiet week in Maria Alm. For us, that meant that all the young and attractive ski instructors went home again, and those remaining had twice as many children in their ski groups. Justine may look as though she is smiling here but she is actually slightly demented having had 13 3 year olds to teach for the whole week.

3 - 9 March 2008

A lovely 3 day visit from Dominic and Rebecca this week with much merriment. If that is not quite enough detail for you then visit Dominic's blog. With a word count of 2476 he has written almost 1000 words more, for a three day visit, than Justine has in 29 weeks of life here.

25 February - 2 March 2007

Two weeks of summer temperatures followed by two days of rain storms have reduced the Ski Kindergarten Sammelplatz to a swamp and the pistes to a puddle. On Friday we reluctantly packed up the ski school on Natrun, our beloved little mountain, and moved onto the main ski area on Aberg. Justine and Simon will now have to get up a whole 10 minutes earlier each morning to get to work on time.