Very British- A Journey to England

The Days around Easter in England   This year I celebrated Easter a little different from how I would normally celebrate it. It started with the Holy Week in which I arrived. A service took place on every evening of this special week and I went to some. Easter sunday we went to chruch as well and the service was very nice. The chruch was decorated again with beautiful flowers and everybody was in a very good mood. The choir sang and I enjoyed the time. Afterwards we had coffee and biscuits as usual and afterwards J gave me the task to go for a walk with Patch.  I went with him and when we came home we drove to Bethan who had invited us for lunch. J had already made the starter and the pudding and B. had prepared the rest. Her whole family was there including her daugther who studies in Wales, her son who is going to do his Master's degree in Oxford and her other daugther Lawrie. Two other friends were invited and as well and so we were 9 people in total. It was a lovely

My first week in East Leake The last days were full of activities. I already wrote something about the pudding party and it really was a big success. We served more than ten puddings and it was not a hard job, because I knew nearly every single guest from my last visit and therefore it was more like being surrounded by friends. I think the best puddinng was J's Pavlova and the Lemon Passot! Paul even got a cake in form of a car from one good friend!:D He loves all kinds of cars but his favorite car is, funnily enough, a German VW bus. I gave him a card (All people from England love cards and they display them in their living-room) and a little present and he was so happy about that. Here is one photo I took at the pudding party They day went over so quickly, I helped P&P to clean up their kitchen and then we went together to the 8 o'clock service. There is a service every day in the Holy week and these services are more like a mediation. The vicar plays a song

My first days being back in Middle England    You can not imagine how glad I am to be back in East Leake! It's great to be back. I really missed J and of course Patch. When I entered my room it really felt like I had never been away. I came (again) by Eurostar and the journey was easy and without any difficulties. It's the Holy week this week so everything is a little bit busy. I arrived on the late afternoon on Sunday and J welcomed me at the train station. We drove to her house and Jean and Max (Judith's closests neighbours came over to see us. We had a lovely meal: Oven baked potatoes, veggies and chicken wrapped in bacon and apple pie with ice cream for dessert. After the delicious meal we played Scrabble and J helped me so that I really won the game!:D It is not easy to be good at Scrabble because they are experts and they really know all the small words which score a lot! It is neccessary to play tactical but I think I'm improving. Here is one pic