September 13, 2008: Several birthdays later

There have been many birthdays since the last time I wrote here. For my birthday we went to a restaurant in Rønde, for Mia’s birthday we went to Randers Rainforest, for Tony’s birthday Ann and Jenny came for the weekend and we ended up at the Helnan and for Gwen’s birthday she requested a return match at the Helnan so we have eaten well in the last month.

Another thing to take our time away from the computer has been the acquisition of a new cat called Chocolate who is incredibly lively and curious but was at least house-trained from Day 1. The problem there has been getting the two cats to get on. Chocolate has no problem bouncing here, there and everywhere but big Rosemary is terrified of the little newcomer and simply takes a high vantage point and watches her without blinking, hissing when she gets too close and sometimes growling like a dog. So you can imagine what fun it was when Gwen and I took both of them to the vet to get their cat influenza jabs a couple of days ago.

So it has been back to school for the girls since mid-August, Gwen has started French and continues to need a challenge in English. She has started a blog but this will only be motivating if she gets comments! So go to http://nimtofte.edublogs.org, see what she has to say and add your to’hapence worth by clicking on comment even if it’s only to complain about the colour scheme.