The Old and the Restless

Margot invited us for dinner and made a delicious crown roast of pork with a sourdough, dried fruit stuffing. I think it would be good in the Christmas turkey. On the Fine Cooking website that each serving is supposed to be 1220 calories. I guess we won't have appetizers before Christmas dinner. Would we have to miss dessert? Trying to get the three cousins together started calmly enough. A little excitement here. I made a remark about the bare feet. Beginning to lose control... A final collapse Joshua recited a song and poem he learned at school. Ella joined in. "Go in Peace" (And he went)

Travelling by train from Cologne to Basel and then to Neuchatel we were surprised to see snow in Switzerland. However, when we arrived in Neuchatel, the only snow was on the distant mountains. The Eiger, the Mönch and the Jungfrau were out in all their glory. The white in the foreground are the greenhouses behind Bryn and Hervé's house. Not snow. Alicia goes to the local Kindergarten.  The hours are strange. Most days it's morning only. On one day it is morning and afternoon but lunch is from 11:45 until 1:45. One afternoon we made muffins. For Halloween, Alicia was a cat. Brandon was a monster. I don't think the mask was very comfortable. The pumpkin Bryn carved. In their town of Wavre, Halloween was to be on Friday November 2nd from 6 to 8 pm. I don't think all the Swiss quite understand Halloween. In the bags I found that someone had given the children a handful of shelled almonds. I guess they were supplies f...