Renoveringen af det, der bliver præseboligen i Vejle og vores nye hjem er gået i gang. Alt nedbrydningsarbejdet er mere eller mindre færdigt, og de er begyndt at bygge nye vægge og sætte nye lofter op. Meget spændende! Det er lykkedes os at få Duncan med op af trappen så han også har kunnet se det. The pictures here show: What will become our new bathroom. Hard to tell at the moment. But it'll be bigger than what we have now. And there will be a window!! It used to be the kitchen.

The big mess is what will become kitchen/bedroom/childrens romms. Severeal walls has been taken down and two staircases moved. The farthest corner will be our bedroom, and where the picture is taken from will be the kitchen. To the left will be two small bedrooms.

The final picture is of the living room. It's not very big, but it'll be cosy. There will also be a dining room. What I am amazed at is in how good condition the old floors are. They have been covered up for several years. I'm not entirely sure what floors we will get - but some kind of wood.

The work should be finished at the end of May, and mid June we are sat to move in. Only three months from now! Incredible. It's hard to imagine what it's going to be like, even though we have known since we oved here 3 1/2 years ago that one day - if we stayed - we would live there.

Here's a few pictures from Duncan being ill. This piture below is from the first week after the operation. His stomach is still bloated. As Jean said: "Now he only looks 4 months pregnant as opposed to 10!"At the moment he's home but has to go in every day to have the bandages changed and checked. The latest thing is that the wound opened up again when they took out the stitches a week ago. It's a known complication in situations like Duncans, although the doctors and nurses hadn't expected it with such a young person. So Wednesday he was fitted with a vacuum machine to help him heal up. We think he will have to wear it for at least two weeks. Maybe more. When Duncan asked the doctor yesterday for how long he's to wear it, the doctor stuck his fingers in his ears and started singing - they don't dare say. But with the machine from today he only has to go in twice a week and not every day. That will make everything easier!

We have been amazed how many people have phoned, written, sent flowers and cards or prayed for us. Our dog has been looked after, Duncan has had visitors, I have been fed and taken out. People all over Denmark and half of England. Protestants and Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists and folkekirken - Duncan thinks he's become an ecumenical movement :-) We're very grateful for it. I have felt carried by it. And with out the support from so many it would have been difficult. This pictures shows a selection of the flowers Duncan had at one point. The teddy bear is from some children in the congregation.

One og the fantastic things with the House is the garden. In it I have made a little wood bed (skov bed). And lo and behold: erantis stikker op af jorden. (I have no idea what they are called in english). Min farfar havde rigtig mange erantis i hans have.... I love seeing things I once out away in the soil find its way back up. It's very satisfying. And although we're not there very often I do think I can make a noice garden out of it. The evening picture is out from our garden over one of the fields around us.

One of the best things of our holiday - I though - was the walk in crisp weather down to see our bit of the marsh. Holly found a stick as big as her self. We saw a fox. Duncan and Holly had a run a round underneath a big tower made for looking out our the landscape. (Udsigtstårn) And the last picture is a view over the marsh (mose) including in it our part of it. Breathtaking, isn't it?!

It's been a while, I know. I also realize that the winter half term is some weeks gone now. But still. Here's some pictures from the lovely House, where we spent our only too short break. I can't remember the weather entirely - we had some fantastic clear days with sun. Did some good walks as you can tell. We went into the marsh (mosen). Beautiful! We hadn't inteded to do any work at the house really. But when we came up and turned on the water we found that the old hot waterboiler (varmt vandsbeholderen) was broken. So we had to have a guy out and put in a new of those. Also Duncan did a bit of shelves to the kitchen, I put lights up in it and cleaned everything thoroughly. And we bought a new oven. Very expensive. Very nice! It happened when we realized we could look into the fire through the chimney of the old one! this one heats everything up much more evenly. Even the floor feels warmer! The pictures show the new oven and our fantastic kitchen.
I have to split the pictures in several posts - they take up too much space.