6 Feb 2012

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND ?



Helps you to remember what you have done on the weekend of February 4, 2012.

On Saturday my friend Nicole from my painting group had asked me if I would like to do a walk with her and Charly her dog and then have cake and tea in her flat.

The sun was shining although it was freezing cold (- 9° C, 15 F) but warmly dressed it was a pleasure !



Charly loves the snow ! Nicole lives in a flat, but it's like a house, each flat has a separate house door, then a little entrance hall and then a few steps leading into the appartment. Although it looks as if the houses had two floors each appartment has only one, it's a real strange construction and difficult to explain. The living room has such a high ceiling like in very old houses but it is not flat but pointy ! Her selfmade cake was delicious and the tea too !



Charly immediately brought me a piece of wood, but then prefered to nibble on it himself, he probably feared for my teeth.



Sunday morning I went to the Waterloo market to buy our Thai plate (chicken with noodles), the stands were protected against the cold by red tents. Looked rather funny. Despite the cold there were quiet a lot of people who had the same idea, to buy supper for Sunday evening.



In the afternoon I went over to Dominique and took these pictures of our "white house" from her office, where I helped her with a computer problem.




our street



cat Arthur trying camouflage in the snow.



and the weekend ended with Miss Marple, together with Dominique our neighbor !

This year our fireplace works every evening !!

5 Feb 2012

FROZEN

As each year (or nearly) it is the coldest winter this time we are really freezing ! This afternoon - 12 °C (10 F) in Brussels and - 20° C in the Ardennes, it's really too much.

My brain is frozen too, I suffer in silence ... (next time I complain about the rain again, I promise)



Sitting close to the open fire to warm up, if I could I would sit in the fire



Before we went to bed I opened the window to get some fresh air in, it snowed



Arthur tried the snow but then prefered to come in and use the litter box !