Surprises

Oh I do wish my digi camera was working. Its still sucking the life out of batteries without doing much. It would probably do a lot more if I took it to the camera shop but since I keep forgetting, I doubt if it will happen any time soon.

Anyway the reason I want the digi camera to work is so that I can upload a piccie of the lovely surprises I got today at work. I walked in to Vania jumping out from behind my desk shouting 'surprise' The minx is supposed to be on holiday, well moving house and not at work anyway AND to top it off she had baked a cake. A very smakelijk cake at that. Also the spare desk was piled with goodies. Well a small trolley case, you know like the ones you used to be able to take on as hand luggage and store in the overhead locker, and a large box with a large bow on top. Inside both packages was loads and loads of dutch goodies like pindakaas (peanut butter to us anglophones), hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles), chocolate, frite saus and lots and lots more. I really can't believe how much stuff I came back with. Its lucky that the wee trolley case had wheels otherwise I would have had very sore arms.

That brings me to another point. Wee felix our car is no longer our car. He's off down to Nijmemgen and has now joined the 94kmph is also a very nice speed even though the limit is 120 club. Frank's mum bought our wee car. Our car bunny Benjamin tells us that Felix is quite happy to go into retirement as he's a bit fed up with traffic jams and being driven up and down to the Hague every day.
Its really nice the way everything is falling into place with the car, the house, the flat in Berlin. Im not really a believer in fate etc but it kind of tells me that the move to Berlin is the right decision. Im sure it is. All we need now is for Frank to find a job there and we'll have landed on our feet. He's a clever lad and I'm pretty sure that he'll find something soon.

I decided to have a rest from knitting tonight. Sometimes its nice to read a book instead. I turned the TV off and put some music on. I must admit that its much more relaxing. Might as well get used to it. I hate german television so I think I'll be listening to a lot more music instead.

I'm still wondering what to get Sarah as a thankyou for being my witness at the wedding and for helping me make the outfit. She did the trousers and helped me pin and cut out the top. I want to get her something that she can keep but not something that will break. Or maybe something that won't break too easily. She does have 4 cats after all. Maybe a book or something sparkly like jewlery or something but then again I'm not sure what to get her. Maybe some silly freindship thing. She'll like that. I'll think about it a bit more in bed. I'm dead sleepy and have the cold. I've just finished the Gran Bel kill or cure you toddie. I think its curing so will go and reap the benefits now.

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