Best Photo 2006

Hi,

I've put up my favourite photo's for 2006 here! Please vote for your best one by adding a comment here (or in the album) - I'll publish the best voted (or commented photo) in 2 or 3 weeks! It's a hard choice but this was my fav:

Xmas 2006

Well Christmas has come and gone again - man time really does fly, just the other day I was saying to Dion how much fun it would be to go overseas, and now I've been here for 10 years. Hard to believe isn't it.

We celebrated family Christmas with Leo and Gitte and the rest of the Müller / Gathercole / Gattinger (called GaGaMo) on the 24th at 33 hausstattstr. A great time was had by all, there were huge amounts of presents - mainly for Hanna though - but even Christine and I walked away with some lovely gifts - thank you to all.

On the 25th we celebrated at home, just the 4 of us. We had some gifts under the tree and then we had Christmas lunch (Roast Beef) which was really good. After lunch we went for a long walk with Aisha and Hanna in pram and then Oma and Opa came round for a quick visit. In the evening Christine and I watched "Superman Returns" which was excellent.

And that was Christmas for the Euro Gathers. We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with lots of eating and drinking and family. I have included the link to my NEW online web album here which I am using with Google. Enjoy.

Merry Christmas

So it has been quite a while since I posted, but now is a perfect oppertunity to do so. Not much to report really. Work is going well for both Christine and I, and I am slowly recovering from my really heavy bout of "the dreaded lurgy"! Only thing was poor Hanna had to be rushed to the hospital yesterday because she took her "first" fall, and we thought so was going to get her "first" stitches. Luckily the doc said it wasn't that bad and gave us a special plaster to cover the wound and help it heal quicker. She'll have a little scar, but hopefully that will disappear before long :)

So, just to finish,

We

wish you

a very Merry

Christmas and a

Happy New Year with

much Love from Aisha Hanna

Richard

Christine

X-Mas Preparation

Christmas will be here in only a couple of days and I am almost ready for it ... This hasn't happened very often in the last couple of years! Most of the presents have been bought and although there is no snow here in Salzburg I am slowly getting the christmas feeling - thank god for "Last Christmas" on the radio again and again and a light chain on our balcony! We will celebrate christmas on the 24th in the evening with my parents (including my sister, Oma, aunt, uncle and cousin), however we decided to have a 2nd christmas on the 25th - to celebrate also a bit in the "british way". The christmas tree still has to be bought though!

However not only the christmas preparations keept me very busy but also 2 written tests I had to prepare and correct in the last 2 weeks. The correction work took much longer than I expected but the outcome was quite satisfying. Last friday afternoon parents could come and talk to all the teachers. It certainly was a very interesting experience for me!

Friday this week we will have a christmas party for teachers at the school, and Saturday will be filled with the last minute christmas preparations. I am looking forward to the 2 weeks school holidays to come! It's a good life ...

Have a great day!
Christine

It's a dogs life

So I just had to share this video :) Man it is so funny I couldn't stop laughing! Enjoy!