http://family.74monkeys.com Keeping you in touch with our life in the Alps. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:57:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jo-Jo need Hammer, Jo-Jo hit dog, Dog Woof-Woof He suddenly, rather excitedly came out with this one just after finishing his milk this morning ! Strange things kids come up with ! http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/12/04/jo-jo-need-hammer/ Every year in autumn St Gervais holds the Foire Agricole. The farmers bring down their Cows, Goats, Sheep, Donkey's and even pigs this year and they are paraded through the main square - leaving a lot of sawdust an clearing up to be done on Monday ! Joe loves to see ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/10/20/foire-agricole-2008/ Well, Joseph has caught Chicken Pox (In his words "Jo-Jo has Chicken Pox, Same as Daddy"), which was inevitable given that I have just had it for 2 weeks. He has coped pretty well with it so far, definitely better than me! We are in a bit of a sorry ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/10/06/chicken-pox-all-round/ We went on out first camping trip with the 3 of us to see how it would go. 2 Nights in the Vercors with our friends Pete & Helen and their 2 little 'ns Thomas and Anna. Joe loved camping, as it meant he was outside all the time. He tore ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/07/26/first-camping-trip/ There was a really bright double rainbow yesterday evening which we took Joe out to see and he was really impressed - Isn't it amazing we said - he replied "Mazing"! Now when we say rainbow he says "Mazing" with a big sweep of his arms to indicate the rainbow. ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/05/16/mazing/ This week we got the new stairs built and installed by a friend who is a carpenter. A Brilliant job by Barrie in just 5 days ! Even batter than we had hoped for. It Would have taken me about 5 months and would have looked like a Homer Simpson ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/05/09/new-stairs-go-in/ Boois is what Joe calls his Orange waterproof jacket ! I have no idea why he calls it Boois or what it means, but he is quite definite about what Boois is ! It's funny that he seems to make up words for things, but I guess it's all part of ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/04/08/boois/ This was what Joe said when he saw the photo's of the kitchen Wall being knocked down! And it was a big mess - There is rubble all over the floor now. Still it's progress. I'm putting photo's in a photo-stream which you can find at the bottom of the sidebar ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/03/07/oh-dear-a-mess/ The bathroom was the first room to be pulled out. I needed to know how all the plumbing went! Here are the photo's. http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/03/02/bathroom-tear-out/ As you may know we have finally bought somewhere bigger to live. A little chalet in the village of Bionnay, just up the road from St Gervais. We aren't living there yet though because it needs quite a lot of work! I thought it might be fun to document the work ... http://family.74monkeys.com/2008/03/01/bionay-chalet-renovation/