Yet again, there would have been so much to talk about last month, but the posts didn't happen. But as picspams always seem a good way of remembering stuff and rambling about it, I'll do a holiday picspam! While the holiday season isn't entirely over yet, so this is still relevant! That way, we'll also catch up with the kids? I hope ( Read more... )

Everybody's probably getting tired of the sudden picspam deluge but now that I started it, I'm gonna finish, muahahah. (And then relapse into my usual radio silence, possibly punctuated by the occasional word count? We will see ( Read more... )

"Not everybody is permitted to go to Brest", as the learned old pirate in the Asterix comics sagely observes. As it happened, we actually made it to Brest - whereas other places of interest, such as Quimper, Concarneau, Pont-Aven or the previously mentioned Douarnenez, dropped off the agenda. On the whole, it felt to me as if we weren't doing ( Read more... )

a.k.a. the catch-up saga continueth ( Read more... )

Another birthday that I did not mention (here on LJ) was that of my dear little boy. Felix turned 2 years old during the Drachenfest. We celebrated after the event, which made enough of an impression that Felix occasionally said Felix hat wieder Geburtstag! ("It's Felix' birthday again!") throughout the following week. He unwrapped his own ( Read more... )

Actually, why not start with all the birthdays I missed?

Happy belated birthday, *deepbreath*

laurenia,
fileg,
elenbarathi
and
thaliontholwen!

(No virtual cards for you, so sorry! Please look kindly upon my social duties avoidance issues, which I'm trying to wrestle down with this post, and accept my apologies, my belated congratulations, and my best wishes for the new year in your