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Hello from the Wild West! Slowly, slowly we come back to surface. If anybody says we had a hard time, then this is the utter understatement but - and I say it almost daily to dear EG - WE DID ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-new-beginning-or-back-to-square-one.html

Our beloved farm, for nearly 18 years our home and shelter, is sold. Within the day it was on the market and the first visitors to view it, they fell in love with it and closed the deal at the as...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2018/04/bitter-sweet-farewell.html

Last Thursday, off for a second viewing. First across the channel, then on Friday across the bridge over the Severn, again :-). Today our offer has been accepted. Chuffed. to. bits. ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2017/12/let-adventure-begin.html

The last visit to my preferred island, just a week ago in fact, was not planned and rather in a rush. Wee granddaughter was ill with foot, hand and mouth disease - obviously widely spread over Eu...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2017/11/ngs-may-hanham-court-bristol.html

After Wales is before Wales... or ... dreaming of Mimosas. Back from an exciting trip to Wales! The Irish Sea But before all that, there was April. A wonderful, promising month with plen...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2017/09/catch-up-april-and-early-may.html

It has never been my intention to keep silent for so long. But so many other things kept me busy and so many moments were spent just enjoying. Enjoying spring with EG's national collection of daf...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2017/08/catch-up.html

'Wonne im Bauch' ---- Only my own word creation from childhood ---- it means more than butterflies in my belly.... Here we are, here we go. I am fully geared up to face that house in Wales. I h...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2017/03/wonne-im-bauch.html

Here we are in 2017, the year of change. Whilst winter was so long and rather cold, not a lot of things got done. The reliable antidote to the cold: Glühwein (mulled wine) - not sure if the...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2017/02/cottage-or-castle-wales-or-west-country.html

A part from many common, shared or tolerated passions, Wales has always been one of them between EG and me. Since our childhood and so many happy memories there, Wales is engraved in our hearts. ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/11/croeso-y-cymru.html

WILHELM BUSCH: IN AUTUMN The lovely summer has been leaving, and with its wealth arrived the fall. The spiders are all kindly weaving the garments for the festival. They're weaving fo...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/10/in-autumn.html

The French Family pram in new glory  DAS LEBEN IST HERRLICH!!! all those tiny details made with lots of grandmother love One of the Bristol balloons from the wedding  e...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/06/meeting-elise.html

...that's what the French call it, whereas the British call it RANGE COOKER and in German there is just this so appropriate saying: EIGNER HERD GOLDES WERT which means something like a cooke...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/06/mon-piano-de-cuisine.html

The photos taken by a famous photographer Hello in beautiful May! Some weeks ago, I spontaneously participated in a stationary swap organised by a dear blogger friend who I know in flesh, ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/05/stationary-swap.html

There are so many pictures of spring in blogland but we need it! Come on in for a stroll around EG's daffodil land: bunches of all different daffodils in the orchard  down by the stre...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/04/colours.html

Here are, as promised, 'some' pictures of that fabulous workshop at Hope & Elvis  I was so privileged to participate in, again! Christine Kelly, our awesome artist and teacher has already post...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/04/wonderful-workshop.html

Since early January, together with my friend from Hamburg, we started planning another snowdrop trip through English gardens. A part from a lady running into the back of my car straight on th...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-journey.html

January started with many happy hours on the sewing machine, one quilt was started, a bed throw out of old shirts and another bed throw was finished  but as it had to be sent to Bristol in ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-january-review.html

Before 2015 ends, a post is needed - perhaps to try to come back to normal? What is 'normal'? A rollercoaster year sees its end and I just hope that 2016 will continue in the way as 2015 ends, ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2015/12/in-between.html

In fact, many happy days in the Vosges! A perfect couple, a perfect wedding.

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Here are finally some impressions from the Gentlework workshop at Hope & Elvis in Nottingham-shire. The travel on a Friday afternoon around the M25 and then up the M1 was as foreseen, very dens...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-wonderful-weekend-at-hope-elvis.html

Our last travel to Bristol gave us the opportunity to stop for a visit in Wisley Gardens. EG had never been before and it was cool enough and we found a shady space in the (very crowded) ca...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2015/03/on-road-again.html

Nearly as many years as I longed for visiting Ireland, I dreamed of visiting York. We had our cottage near Harrogate and from there went across the different destinations we both had on our wishl...

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This is today's view from my window (taken with the laptop camera)----  ideal for to dig out some great memories from our  visit to Yorkshire on end of September 2014. After having been (t...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2015/01/fountains-abbey-yorkshire.html

Vite vite avant que l'année se termine encore! How could it happen that it is already the end of the year?  Here are some details of how December went by: The advents calendars for the ...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2014/12/in-between-years.html

... and plenty of other things which made me happy these days. Ce blogpost-ci est une éloge à l'amour et à la passion et plein d'autres choses qui m'ont fait heureux. Lets start with passio...

http://bayou-bayoublog.blogspot.com/2014/11/about-love-and-passion-brocante-du-fil.html