Nollaig Shona Duit, or, Hauskaa Joulua!

Dear Friends and Family,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009!
Instead of Christmas Cards we decided to spend the money this year too on a
Hamper of Cat Food Delights that we donated to
The Society for Abandoned Animals
With seasons greetings,
Dee, Emma, and Lily & Rose


Rakkaat ystävät ja sukulaiset,

Hauskan Joulun ja Onnellisen Uuden Vuoden 2009 Toivotukset
Joulukorttien sijaan päätimme käyttää rahat tänäkin vuonna
Herkkukorilliseen kissanruokaa, jonka lahjoitimme
Löytöeläintalolle The Society of Abandoned Animals
Jouluterveisin,
Emma, Dee ja Lily & Rose

Snow!

Christmas at Mossley!

Cats fighting over the comfy seats!


Rose gets a good seat!

Lily waiting for Santa! (and her pressie!)

Cats posing...

Sleepy cats

Rose and Lily taking it easy at home..


And keeping Emma company during the lonely PhD process...

Gingerbread house & biscuits!

Fabulous baking by Emma!

House - finished render-work

Finally got the render finished despite the rain and delays. Looks good:

builders were nice and polite and apologised (a lot) for breaking 2 panes of glass from our greenhouse!

Talon kunnostusta - works in the house

Takka valmiina - Fireplace ready with the companion set!














The work is underway on the render in the back of the house -
Talon takaseinan rappaus on kaynnissa

Scarborough

Holiday in Scarborough - beautiful sights by the sea - and the Grand Hotel
Scarborough'n merenrantakaupunki ja Grand Hotelli

Kasvimaan satoa / pictures from the garden

Kasvukausi alkaa nyt olla Englannissakin ohi (tosin viela on salaattia kasvihuoneessa ja ruusukaalit tulossa), kuvassa omia herkullisia tomaatteja ja irlantilainen Galwayn kristallikarahvi (naytti niin kauniilta tomaattien kanssa...)

Lily's pose

One more picture of Lily as she's become very keen lately to pose for pictures (rather than just come and sniff the camera as she used to...)

She's calmed down a lot otherwise too, not as jumpy as she was during the first months we had her

Greenhouse

Plants getting bigger in greenhouse


... and the dragonflies love the heat in there!

Flowers - Kukkia puutarhassa

Some flowers in our garden - it's interesting to move into an existing garden in spring and see what comes up!









This shrub had taken over a lot of the garden and we were wondering if we should clear it all out. We didn't, and now it has lovely blue flowers attracting bees :)

Shetland trip May 09

The seals in Lerwick







Me with our cute litte rental car














Wigwam in Northmavine...








..where once again it was stormy












Papa Stour Sword Dance

Lily and Rose

Lily and Rose have settled in well to the new house - they have several favourite places to sleep in!

Lily ja Rose ovat kotiutuneet hyvin, heilla on useita lempi-nukkumapaikkoja!

Greenhouse!! Kasvihuone!!