SylkeWeb – Sylke’s mutterings to herself on an island not so far away

One of my Colourlover friends made me remember something today:

Some years back on Christmas eve (that's when we celebrate in Germany) my mum and I were trying to get to my sister's place despite a completely iced over car. We couldn't open it so we tried public transport instead.

We barely managed to get there: they were running replacement buses for the trams and we probably got the very last one. Phew.

We had to negotiate the last 500m by foot on a very icy pavement - carrying presents, a half-cooked goose and supporting each other on the worst bits.

However, we managed to get there without falling down and despite some desperate giggling attacks!

Funny thing is, I don't remember at all how we got back home.

This morning my outdoor thermometer showed me -3C, that is very cold for this area. I think last year we managed this kind of temperature once; this year we've had a lot of mornings with minus degrees already.

I've finally found a pair of winter boots for Yannick that were affordable and which I actually really like! Yannick and his daddy go out every morning on the weekends, I think it's wonderful. Yesterday Frank found some gloves for Yannick, they are sooooo cute but I fear not really that warm. However, that's not a problem, we also have warmer mittens for him.

Here you can see Yannick waiting for his daddy to go out with him for his Sunday morning adventure.

I found this in the Cosmic Buddha blog:

Eating Mickey (or, how I overcame one of my last food prejudices)

Don't read if you are a vegetarian or very squeamish. I found the first photos hilarious and the result quite interesting to be honest.

Yum yum.

Frank has been looking around for a better internet provider than effing TalkTalk and it turns out that we have to go back to British Telecom first. All other providers rent the phone lines from BT and if you were with somebody else they apparently cannot switch you over to their network. So much for free competition, this is still a monopoly position for BT and it's sooooooooooo mega annoying. So our phone line will be switched to BT one of these coming days and we'll have no internet until Frank has found a new provider. No internet means no SylkeWeb and no surfing for me. Gah, that's just horrible!

Anyway, have a good week or so without me. I'll miss you all! Sniff.

It's old photos again!

Among these are a bunch taken at the Alresford steam train station and we have a photo of Thomas there too. At the time Yannick didn't even know Thomas, but I'm sure if I'd show him this photo now he'd be very excited. You can also see Yannick holding hands with other children and sitting on his tv throne dressed up strangely (another photo he will kill me for later in his life…). Enjoy.

And some more posting done, Yannick at the beginning of this year!

I can't believe how much he changed. You only ever see that when looking at old photos and thinking back at how he used to behave.

And again, a login is needed to see these pictures. You can register yourself at the gallery actually, only takes a sec. However, if I don't know you or don't recognise your name, you'll be deleted. Sorry.

About time, here are our photos from last Christmas and some others too!

Yannick will probably kill me later for the very first photo…

Oh, yes, a login is needed to see these pictures. If you don't have one please leave me a message on my contact page and I'll sort that out.

… and now nothing works. Beware of TalkTalk.

I hate sales people who don't know what they are talking about. They promise you what you want to hear (broadband with static IP address) instead of what they really have on offer (no static IP address). We fell for it and now we need to look for a new one to get SylkeWeb back on-line permanently instead of intermittently.

On top of that, ever since we are with TalkTalk our connection has become really flaky. I'm not happy at all.