Newsletter 2016

We had a good beginning of the year with the holiday in Sri Lanka, but it ended with the worst colds in a long time. Luckily we had a lot of fun in the time in between.

The era of the big zeroes continues. It has been a year of celebrations, with festivities every month, celebrating friends who turned 50 or 60. As we are slowly getting older, we need the month in between to bounce back after each party. This year Carl turned 50, and next year it’s Kersti. We decided to host a 99-year celebration instead of 2x50, and after that party we needed two months to get back to normal. We decided to have a garden party, with large tents, lots of friends and a specially ordered sun. My brother Jan and his friends played beautiful music, we had exploding CD-discs, drinks, PokeAlm Go, champagne and trees full of candy. In other words, everything you need for a nice party.

In order to create some party space for the teenagers, we redecorated the garage, and turned into a man cave. With couches, TV, videogames, music and a disco ball it was the perfect place for the kids. Axel adopted it as his own, and did not move in again until the autumn made the garage uncomfortably cold (no heating…).

We are still busy with Project House. It was supposed to take 20 years and all our money to renovate. We only have a little more than a year left now! During 2016 we managed to finish the small bath room down stairs, fixed the living room floor and the walls and Axel’s room now has no cracked walls. The garden now sports a new zebra and a small green crocodile called Junior. We look forward to finishing the renovations in May 2018, and we hope to have some money left in the end.

Carl’s 50th birthday present from the family was a trip to Scotland, where he got to drive a Jaguar and drink whisky. It has long been a dream of his. It was fun, but not really useful with all the horse power as the roads were very narrow and winding. A car with no roof also needs to have a quick button to put the roof when it starts raining again. Castle and whisky was also fun. We had a nice road trip in Poland and Germany. Their castles are as nice as the ones in Scotland J. In Peenemünde there is a huge submarine, there are shelters from the Second World War in Stettin, and Trabants in Berlin. In Poland they have butter fudge, and they had beer everywhere!

Axel is now 15 years old, and he slowly realizes that the future is here. He is pondering what to do in high school and what to do when he grows up. So far he has decided on something technical, where the wages are good enough for him to afford really nice (=expensive) food every day. He plays badminton and the guitar. It is not possible to have too many guitars, right now he has five. One of them he has built himself.

Johan is 13, he plays the horn and floor hockey. He loves everything technical and wants understand everything. If the technical things happen to stink and explode it is even better. Right now his big project is to rebuild his NERF-gun. The aim is to rebuild this plastic gun that shoots soft darts into a plastic gun that shoots soft darts, but faster and harder. The computer is still his best friend.

Kersti still travels a lot. New Orleans is a very nice city, with 24-hour parties. It can really be recommended for people with iron-lined stomachs. Manchester is also a very nice city. They have rhubarb gin and a pub called the Alchemist where bubbling, smoking drinks are served. To everybody’s great surprise (Kersti’s as well) Kersti is now team leader for Johan’s floor hockey team. Knowledge of floor hockey was not included in the job description… We are all very happy for the coaches who seem to know what they are doing.

Carl/Cacke, Kersti, Axel och Johan.

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