Where are you now?: View from the chateau in Nyon

5 things you didn´t know about us...

1.) Grandad Gaskell (Tom) was born and raised in Zimbabwe. One day when it´s safe, Maria´s going there... **********************
2.) Maria´s favourite snacks are cheese and chocolate - watch her balloon in Switzerland!' **********************
3.)Grandpa Fred has a plaque dedicated to him on the wall of Leicester City Football stadium. **********************
4.)Freyja has the same Chinese zodiac sign as Maria´s mum did - the earth tiger. There were only two last century! (1938 and 1998) **********************
5.) Thomas and Maria are both born in the year of the horse. But whilst Thomas is set to become a fine young stallion, Maria´s just an old nag...

Golden Nuggets

November 14th 2008: So today the school called me in about Thomas. His teacher is having problems getting through to him. ´He seems to think he´s Harry Potter´she said. Thomas studied her for a while and then said ´No, he´s a character played by Daniel Radcliffe´.
November 11th 2008: Thomas was complaining about school being boring today, especially maths. At the moment he thinks he is Harry Potter so I asked him if he thought he´d be more interested if for example they had to do sums with a box full of golden snitches instead of numbers written on a page. ´No point´he said. ´The answer would always be zero cuz as soon as you open the box they all fly out.´
October 11th 2008: Made sushi for tea and also put out some prawn crackers that needed finishing - having mixed Japanese and Chinese food together, I asked the kids if they could spot the mistake at the table. Freyja said ´Thomas´. Ouch!
October 10th 2008: Today Thomas asked me if he could have a glass of water, a piece of cardboard and some baking powder, as he needed to make a trombone...

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