skirting, what goes where?
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Yay!

It worked!

Today is Wednesday, middle of the week, a good time to reflect on the first half gone by and the second half to come!
My boss is on holidays this week, well has been for the last two weeks, and though I had a lot of work to do, it has now all progressed to a stage where I need her input before finalising it, so twiddling my thumbs until she returns on Monday. Today I might start developing the template of a report due in December :-)

Yesterday we went to an AFS meeting where we picked up Kamilla, a Brazilian exchange student, who will stay for a year at Jeroen's parents. Poor thing was bloody nervous.. I wonder if I was the same when I was 17? Probably not :-)Should be interesting to see how well she fits in here...

This weekend I have a dry run for the cooking workshops I am going to give this year at Mmmmh! The dry run is for me to get to know the kitchen, the equipment and practice teaching to a group of people, though the group of people is other chefs teaching there, so not an easy crowd to please!

Sunday is autovrij zondag - Car free Sunday- in Antwerp. Will be fun if it doesn't rain.

Housewarming

Now that most of our boxes are unpacked, it's time to "warm" the house and do what I like best: throw a party!

The housewarming party is on Saturday 15 October. Hopefully we'll get some of the Londoners over.

I just discovered how to blog without having to post on the website each time! If this works, blog frequencies will drastically increase... inshallah!

Let's try this first...

cook here
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study in this room
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guestroom
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room with bath
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living the room
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Honeymoon

Honeymoon was great! We went to the Atlantic coast, 100 kms from Bordeaux, and it was a warm, breezy 30 C everyday. This area was surprisingly well equipped for bikers- the bike paths even has roundabouts! So we hired bikes for the week, biked lots, ate lots and generally unwounded after a month of working in our new house.

I had to look up the address of the townhall in Berchem, where we have to register now and came accros the the colourful weaponshield of our new town. Apperently the three red stripes come from the king of Aragon, who gave them to the family Berthout who had protected him on three occasions.

But we live in a safe neighbourhood, I really enjoy having moved away from the centre in the protection of a street full of nice families. (We moved last weekend but before that we had already recieved a bottle of liquor from our neighbours.) Living closer to the station makes commuting by train to Brussels also so much more pleasant (read shorter).