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When looking for details of this year's Hegi Chlauslauf, I discovered a picture of me from last year on the website. I wonder if I'll look so cheerful this year? It was freezing last time...

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Our beautiful brook has become a raging torrent with all this rain!! Steps covered, trees surrounded and grass flooded.

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When I was running yesterday, all that was in the ground. Speedy harvesting!

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I was reminded of something someone said to us when we were considering schools for the boys when we moved here.
"ISW may look uninspiring from the outside but wait until you see what goes on inside." They were right. It's what goes on inside the walls of that white building that matters. And if you look around, there are plenty of things to see too - like streams and fields, and ducks and cows, and trees and hills. It's not just a 'block'.

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Not many places you get to play - and watch - football surrounded by an airstrip (for light aircraft), fields of corn on the cob, and sheep.

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Badi time! Badi is short for Freibad (outdoor pool) or Hallenbad (swimming pool) and is where people spend their free time when it's as hot as it is today! Oberi (Oberwinterthur) Badi has just been refurbished and is just lovely. Jude had a great time frolicking in the water - and so did the rest of us!

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I couldn't believe how brave this heron was being this morning, stood in the stream with the ducks, bold as anything whilst kids walked past to school.
And it stayed still whilst I took its photograph! Miracle.

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Look what we found on the way back from school. A teeny weeny creature. We thought it might be a mouse or a vole. A baby one, and a very young one at that. Hope it hasn't been trodden on or ridden over.

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On the way back from school today we noticed that someone had been building towers with stones by the brook. Three perfectly vertical ebeneezers. I find pebbles very attractive and love walking on stoney beaches finding beautifully smooth stones.

Der Stein - the stone
Das Steinchen - the little stone/pebble

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"Look at the sun!" said Jude this morning on the way to school. And it was worth it. Very red - shepherds beware! In fact, so pretty I couldn't decide which picture I liked best!

So today let's learn some colours!

Red      rot

Blue     blau

Black    schwarz

Green   grun grüen

White  weiss wiiss

Yellow   gelb  gäl(b)

Purple   violet

Orange  orange (oransh)

Pink       rosa pink

Gray     grau