21- 27 June 2010

Caspar had his stage debut this week (not counting performances as sheep/king/donkey in various nativity plays). He played the part of the old farmer in the school play 'Der Arme Ritter' (The Poor Knight). It was the director Frau Haid's swan song, she is retiring after 30 years of teaching and directing. At the moment there seems to be no-one willing to take up the mantle and if someone doesn't come forward soon, Simon is wondering if he could squeeze it in.

14 - 20 June 2010

Children the world over get at least one good talking to in their school career about the danger of cars. Caspar's school decided that the best way to teach them is to let them drive one. We are pleased to report that given the usual apparent lack of health and safety regulations, on this occasion it appears that they did a little risk assessment and decided that if they were going to let over-excited 9 year olds drive cars they should close the road and issue a few fluorescent jackets.

7 - 13 June 2010

Just a month until the end of the school year, so the season of outings, ice cream, swimming, walking, anything except that which one would expect school children to be doing in school on a school day, is upon us. Caspar and his class mates went to Salzburg for a 'personal development and social learning' day. In the session entitled 'Social Power (self-defence boxing workshop) - fair play for fair life', the tutor, for the sake of health and safety, demonstrated a few techniques on our only son, punched him on the nose, gave him a nose-bleed and sent him to the medical centre for the rest of the session.

31 May - 6 June 2010

You wouldn't think that a group of, mostly elderly, English church goers, our Oberammergau guests, could cause a stir in Maria Alm, but last Sunday, Holy Communion was celebrated in Maria Alm church by, not just 1, but 2 women priests for the first time in the church's 503 year history. If the Pope knew what was going on in this quiet Catholic corner of the world he would be having kittens!