Staying inside in the warm!!

MY LOVELY DAUGHTER OF WHOM i AM SO PROUD, i LOVE HER MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD, With me of course ! ! !!



Kenny , Alina and Yasmina . Sylvia with Rosie and Yasmina all wrapped up for the snow! Me cutting mine and Kenny's birthday cake which Mariana so kindly made for us. Lastly my little French Madelines Yummy!!!


It is so cold and the snow is quite thick still and it froze last night that I am afraid to venture out .(Don't want any more falls!) So I decided to bake some Madelines (the dainty cakes from France) The first lot I put too much mixture in the special shaped trays (They tasted delicious though) but the second batch were perfect as you will see in my picture.

Just going to put a few random pictures on today as I must get on and do some house work!!!!!

OH!!! Gosh we have snow now!!!

Oh !! I spoke too soon, we have thick snow now and it's still snowing. It is very pretty out there but minus 5 deg. I shall be staying in today I wouldn't want to slip and upset my back again and it is jolly cold, I chanced it to the dustbins and that was bad enough. The strange thing is; things have not come to a stand still as they did in UK !!!!!

I got a phone call last week on Wednesday from Catherine at the BBC , she asked if I would go on Radio Manchester again , I said OK. So Thursday am, I was on the radio talking about communications.I told them how good Skype was for me, to be able to talk to my sister in Hyde who has no computer but I speak to her on the land line for an hour or so , usually Sunday when she has time to talk and it only costs me about 50p and of course to Angie and Bill in Oldham for nothing as they have a computer. We also spoke about the Blog and how people contact me from all over the world to ask about Romania. They also mentioned Twitter but I have not as yet explored that.

It was Amy's birthday on Sunday so the gang came and we had cheese and biscuits , nibbles and cakes and a little champagne , it was nice to see everyone if a bit tiring but that's normal, we had eight adults and three children, Mary Beth who has come as a volunteer to help for three weeks is wonderful with the children and is a lovely girl we will be sorry when she leaves, her Mum is a nurse and she came last year to help the charity that Kathy and Kenneth run for the poor people and street children.

I am looking forward to my trip to Hyde and have booked wheelchair assistance as the walking across Munich airport and Manchester are too much for me with the state of my back and I want to get there feeling OK so that I can enjoy my stay with Betty and Tom and hopefully see Angie and Bill and all the rest of my family and friends. I will be there for Easter so that will be nice.

Hope you like the photo's I took this morning from the apartment. The snow is so pretty !!!!

Spring is on the way!!

Well while Britain is experiencing the worst snow fall in 18 years we have nice sunny days and much warmer temperatures. The first snowdrops have popped their heads up which to me is a sure sign that spring is on the way.The big difference with Britain having snow and snow here is , we have very low temperatures with it IE. 16 degrees below zero on the coldest day in Arad this winter.

I managed to go to the English conversation club last Wednesday with Gloria and Kate and Amy came too, It was nice to see everyone again and there was endless chatter about all sorts of things.I think we shall all be glad again when the Terrace opens at the end of April beginning of May. It is so pleasant to sit outside and the gardens are lovely. The speed life is passing it will not be long, I never used to believe it when folk used to say "time passes quicker the older you get" but now I know they were right.

I am hoping to visit Manchester in April to see my family, it will be almost a year since i went , so it will be good to see everyone and walk round Hyde market, go to Ashton and Stockport on the bus and of course to eat "HOLLANDS" meat pies ha ha !! Yum oh! and of course fish and chips.

Well it is Wednesday again already so Gloria (my friend from Ireland) and I hope to go to the club again tonight. I have a few jobs on the agenda today so must get on.
I was just comparing prices the other day whilst shopping and everything here is dearer now than UK, you can not get a tin of tomatoes or baked beans for under 40p., butter is £1.50 for half a pound and the gas and electric are so much dearer. It seems people think things are cheap here but that is not the case, however that does not stop me from still liking living here .!!!!