Goodbyes: Grab Lims, Switzerland

Ok – thanks Russia we have had enough of your cold weather. Can’t remember when we had a day that wasn’t a minus something! Just need to see some sun please. We have actually seen the sun through the clouds, but it never succeeds to push its way through.

Well Grabs Lims is a beautiful place, an alpine village sitting at 800m, surrounded by very steep jaggered rock faces, some covered with snow and some just too steep for it to stay on. We are staying with a lovely swiss couple in a gorgeous traditional house, complete with the barn and cellar below. In the barn they house two black sheep and one white, all with bells on them and in good health. They spent winter here at the house in the barn over night and out if it is suitable during the day. When the weather warms up they go up to the mountain meadows. They also have four hens and a cat called car-lick. Firewood is high priority here, so we have shifted about ½ m2 firewood from the outside shed, into the basement for easy access and then Ernst has had 20 birch logs delivered that Murray has been cutting up with the chainsaw . In the afternoon Murray went skiing with Rosemary to Wildhaus ski fields, had a great time although it was really cold. I went for a walk to the next village and had a look around. Real pretty, the little lake had almost completely frozen and they had cordoned off an area for people to walk on – pretty cool the kids were having so much fun. Today, Murray cut some more logs up and Ernst has been using the electric splitter to split and put in the outside shed ready for next year. Murray had to put the chainsaw down on the ground today for a short time while he shifted something and when he picked it up again, the chain had frozen to the blade! In case you are wandering what I did today, well I pulled a sicky – nope- I have got a sore throat and runny nose so spent the day in bed. Feel pretty good now. Hopefully a rest day will put a hold to it getting any worse.