Movie Night - The Godfather

Here's Janet. She organized 'The Godfather' Movie Night at Centrepoint, complete with Spaghetti Napoli, red wine and other delectable nibbles. Good one Janet.

Our friends Val and Anna (from Queensland) enjoying the evening.

Roger and I had never seen The Godfather movie. After seeing it, I sort of know why, but it was fun to get together with 23 other people and enjoy a movie together and a good feast. We hope to be able to watch the next movie sometime in June!!

No time for blogging ! ! !

The last few weeks we have had a wonderful time with friends we love to meet for meals, coffee, chats, walks, etc. We even went to the movies for the first time since we've been here in Basel. Now that the weather is getting warmer it is great to be able to get out and about and we are all making the most of it.

We've had a few adventures with the trains. Just caught the last train from Basel one Saturday night. I was dressed up to the nines with the stileto's on, etc and couldn't keep up with Roger who bounded up the stairs. Fortunately he kept the train doors open for me until I got there. Too close.....Too scary indeed. We don't fancy spending the night at the Bahnhof when we have a nice bed to sleep in. I've had a couple of weeks of just missing the train and if it's after 8pm at night, that means an hour wait. But, unlike in Australia, I am never worried about being on my own or what might happen to me. Funny isn't it, especially as I am in a foreign country. Walking around at night as a woman on your own just doesn't seem to be a problem here. Just as well, as quite often Roger and I are going our separate ways to catch up with different people and we eventually meet at home.

We've had some wonderful hikes these past couple of weeks. I didn't blog about the walk we led in our area. There were 20 of us on the walk, which was 2.5 hours. Up hill and down dale! Roger and I served a choice of 2 soups and crusty bread after the walk - Zucchini and Chicken and Leek. It started to rain towards the end of the walk, which was a great shame. On a fine day we would have seen the Alps from the Ridge we were on. Anyway, a great time was had by all. Our next walk that we lead will be on Roger's Birthday on 19 May. We are doing a Mystery Walk (decided to call it this as we haven't done it before leading it!!). Should be fun actually and I think we're all quite looking forward to it.

Have had fun in the garden over the last 5 days. We have decorated our front steps and bought 2 standard fuschia's to go either side. Will take a photo to show you sometime. I've had fun with the Hydrangeas, pruning them and cutting out all the dead wood, so now I am waiting patiently for them to green up! Yesterday I went back to Toom (like Bunnings) and bought another pot and a blue hydrangea for the top of our steps. I took the shopping trolley with me and I couldn't believe how polite the drivers were to me on the way home. It brought a smile to my face and a warm fuzzy to my heart! I love 'em!

Twilight Saturday we sat outside near our front steps sipping beer, wine and eating cheese. Herr Bergmann from across the road suddenly appeared with a camera and took many photo's of us. He said we looked very romantic!! We wanted to make the most of the sun before it disappeared for the day.

Will post about Sunday and put up some photo's soon. Am off to have my hair cut now.

C O N T E N T E D ! ! !

THE MOST WONDERFUL AND LOVING HUSBAND

BLUE SKIES

LOVELY HOME now surrounded by BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS

GOOD HEALTH

WONDERFUL FRIENDSHIPS

ALTHOUGH FAR AWAY, A FAMILY THAT LOVES ME

MY FAITH IN JESUS THAT KEEPS ME ON MY TOES



Today my heart is shining
......there is no need for pinning
I am blessed to be alive and well
And all that I hold dear is swell

ANZAC DAY GET TOGETHER

This is The Fish Inn in Zwingen (20minutes train ride out of Basel, Switzerland), an English Pub where we had our get together last Friday night.

Here we all are thanks to Maria and her wonderful camera. 5 from New Zealand, 7 from Australia, 3 Swiss and 1 American but brought up in Australia (so really an Aussie).

We had a great time together. As you can imagine there was lots of noise, laughter and chatting. It was such a success we thought we might organize a gathering like this on a regular basis. Mind you, the organizing will fall on my shoulders, but I suppose that's part of the fun.

Zwingen is the cutest little village. Not a lot there actually, but it is on the river.

NEW PLANT and NEIGHBOURS HOUSES !!

So, what's inside here! I just love the way the Florists and Garden Shops wrap up your flowers and plants (to keep them safe from the weather).

And here it is! My new bathroom plant looking very healthy. In the background is a painting given to us by a friend (Lisa) here. She is a wonderful artist and this is a special picture.

Isn't this house so cute. Taken from our loungeroom window!

Also taken from our loungeroom window, the side of the house next door. Oh I forgot, I should have taken a photo of the vegie garden in progress. Next time.

Yes, I did have things to do today, but I didn't really feel like doing them. I did make a lasagne for my Girl's Night tomorrow night and started on the chicken soup stock for Monday lunch time when the hiking group is coming here for lunch.

GIRL'S AFTERNOON

Fauzia, Marieke, Patricia and Yvonne

I have enjoyed a wonderful afternoon with young friends watching Pride and Prejudice and munching our way through the day! We have decided we are going to start a yearly tradition! Ah, there's nothing like Miss Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy!

Roger was at an all day Choir Rehearsal so I decided to make the most of the day and do some serious girlie TV watching!!

THIS AND THAT

So, what have I been up to since Easter?!! Having been sick for 2 weeks prior to Easter I have been trying to catch up on 'things', but I realise this is not possible! We've done lots of entertaining, which we love, walking, reading, writing, etc. I am hoping for some Spring weather. It has continued to be rather cold here and the last few days we have had a lot of rain, so our little canal in the backyard is rather full and bubbling quickly along. We love it.

I've been cooking a lot, but giving most of it away (which is good for us both - that we don't eat all the things I make!!). Had 2 visits to the Dentist - my teeth are terrible. I don't know how they can do anything to my teeth, but they do and I continue to have my own!!

Last night a few of us met to say goodbye to Galerie Weibel and then to move on to Trade.ch to inspect Fritz Weibel's beautiful new offices. He has begun an investment trading bank and my goodness, is he doing it in style. He would have one of the most central positions in Basel with quite the view of the comings and goings of people.

Above are Fritz, Amanda, Roger and Aaron

with

Lorraine, Adam, Marianne and Bernhard in the top photo.