In the past months we had two heat waves (hadn’t happened in a long time) and July broke all sorts of decades and/or centuries old records. Lots of 30+ days, some even up to 37°C! That makes me physically sick, ugh. I’ve had a lot of headaches and almost-migraines, thanks … » full post and pics!
RIP Robin
RIP Robin 9/12/1991 – 6/21/2006
Very sad news this time, two weeks ago we unexpectedly had to say goodbye to Robin…
He came in at 10.30pm, restless and with big eyes, wobbly legs, in half an hour he was almost paralyzed at the back. After giving him sugar, because … » full post and pics!
doing well
Good morning 🙂
Not a lot of news lately. Been focusing on writing reviews for Morrigan’s Pit and to finally get through the pile of CDs here (must’ve been 80 or something when I started, should be around half now).
Robin is doing very well on the diet + insulin. … » full post and pics!
Robin is a sugarcat / happy new year!
Time for an update! The biggest news we’ve had lately is that Robin turns out to have diabetes (we went for shots and a checkup, so found it out before much damage was done), and that we’re looking forward to going to Canada again in October (likely). You can read … » full post and pics!
pics updates!
What have we been up to the past month? We really needed a break before our actual vacation to Crete in September, so we went back to Ahrweiler for a weekend. That was great! Warm weather and it all looked much nicer in the summer 🙂 It was a pity … » full post and pics!
Summer, Ahrweiler app. website
We’re having a couple of hot days right now, so we’re enjoying summer 🙂 Next weekend is the Bang Your Head festival in the south of Germany (Balingen), so hopefully it’ll be still good then (it’s usual real hot in that weekend!). For the first time we’ll be sleeping in … » full post and pics!
Queen’s Day – conifers
Oh my, I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since my last post!
Not much is new though… only gig we’ve seen in the meantime is Jon Oliva’s Pain and that was awesome! Never thought he’d do so many oooold Savatage classics, it was a big party. And he … » full post and pics!
Dew-Scented & Rock Inc press day (Lars Ratz, Sabina Classen & Hank Shermann)
We had a great weekend!!
Saturday afternoon Anneke, Cordy and Milan visited us, and we had a good time. Milan is a gorgeous little guy, but his future is still very uncertain. He’s home now and for now they’re taking some time to enjoy him and see how it goes. … » full post and pics!