Congrats on the HS @Grannylorraine
Morning
Joining @eggyg and @MeeTooTeeTo on the 5.2 step todays plans finish off some knitting/crotchet projects and then weather permitting go out with the running group this evening.
Congratulations to my fellow HSs
Dream on......had an exchange in Erlangen and Nuremberg as a teenager in the 60s !!!!!! Very different for a Scottish teenager but I loved Austria. Been back several times, youngest son is skiing there just now with the Royal Marines training course.I'm joining the Heinz 57 club on this rather cool Berkshire morning. No sunshine, and none in the forecast either, just a sky the colour of milk.
@Sharron1 - I get up and test while the kettle's boiling, so generally within 5 minutes of getting out of bed.
@rebrascora - I agree about Austria. My wife and I had a lovely summer holiday there a couple of years after we met, staying in Kirchdorf in Tirol but with coach trips to places like Salzburg. Stunning scenery, including the nearby Wilder Kaiser mountain ridge. I've stayed in Vienna too, but that was back in 1968 (blimey, is it that long ago..??).
Free day, more or less, so as it's forecast to be dry I think I'll cut up the honeysuckle I had to cut down and bag it up for the garden waste collection tomorrow. Neighbours are back and they're OK with me stripping their creeper off the fence panels that the storms brought down. But first, coffee and read the newspaper.
Congrats @eggyg and @MeeTooTeeTo on your HSs
Hope everyone has a good day.
We walked into nearby St Johann a few times and one thing I remember is that whenever we encountered locals they always smiled and said "Grüß Gott". Despite German being my foreign language choice at secondary school I'd never heard that expression, but it's apparently the common way of greeting people in Austria.@Martin.A You won't believe it but Kirchdorf was my very first stay in Austria when I was 17. It was fabulous not least because they had record amounts of snow just before we arrived which was a yard deep on every roof and piled high everywhere. Temperatures were something silly like -25 but it was fine and sunny and everything including the air glistened. Your breath froze on your hair and eyelashes, but it was just absolutely magical! It was my first trip abroad and my first skiing holiday and I fell in love with skiing and Austria and have been back many times over the years, mostly in winter but also spring, although that all stopped when I got my horses. Would love to go back for a walking holiday one day. Happy memories!
I never went on an exchange but my father was Regular Army (and former Royal Marine, as it happens) and his regiment was stationed in what was then West Berlin back in the early 60s. When asked to choose between German and French for O-level once we were back home, German was the obvious choice as I'd picked some up while out there.Dream on......had an exchange in Erlangen and Nuremberg as a teenager in the 60s !!!!!! Very different for a Scottish teenager but I loved Austria. Been back several times, youngest son is skiing there just now with the Royal Marines training course.
Was that Saalbach Hinterglemm? We’ve walked there a couple of times in the summer. Was there enough snow? Son is going to Kitsbühel in a few weeks time, and saw on the World Cup skiing TV coverage from there recently, it all looked very green, apart from the course route that had obviously got the snow cannons working full time.went to semering to star it 1 hour from Vienna and then to Salzburg hinterglem
im original from Vienna (i guess you could see it from my spelling)
I never went on an exchange but my father was Regular Army (and former Royal Marine, as it happens) and his regiment was stationed in what was then West Berlin back in the early 60s. When asked to choose between German and French for O-level once we were back home, German was the obvious choice as I'd picked some up while out there.
I might have forgotten mine had I not worked for three multinationals with factories and offices in Germany. I've had dozens of German colleagues during my working life and been to Germany several times for meetings.I took German and French, both boys took German as well but all is forgotten
Morning Colin a better match would be a HS and you being 52 but no matter have a great birthday and will still give you a Star.5.8
And it’s my 58th birthday today so that’s nicely matched.
Off to Houses of Parliament for 9am as I’m touring Big Ben this morning. They provide earplugs. The Tempest this afternoon.