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331: Merry Christmas From Graz, Austria
~Apologies~
I know ! I KNOW ! Slap my wrist ! It’s been weeks since my last post and you must be wondering what’s going on. Well, everything really. My move from Spain has totally screwed up my hands and balance. I couldn’t get my head around blogging, answering comments and doing the simplest things are almost impossible. So I am sorry that many of your comments in previous posts lay unanswered. I have read them and love you all for putting yourselves out to write.
Life so far has been revolving around government paperwork, some easy, some brain frying. Still, almost finished. My UK pensions are coming to Austria, but Brexit has been ruining the exchange rate. I am now officially a permanent resident in Austria and not classed as a “gay pride 40 year old bearded child migrant with no paperwork” who is given everything. Yes, craziness is a norm in Europe.
Paperwork is delaying Natascha and I getting married, but we are almost there ! It will need a full future post to tell you what “fun” we had. The following 3 photos were taken in Vienna, part of the game governments play when we had to visit the British Embassy for a bit of paper needed for us to get married.
~Natascha Is Awesome~
Yes she is ! I love her to bits. Never having done any DIY she is willing to have a go at anything with my guidance and does it well.
“Will I die ?” she asked before climbing the ladder to hang curtains 12ft high.
She does everything for me and the cats and loves doing it. She is awesome and I am so lucky to be with her.
~Sonic & Murli, Our Christmas Lights~
It cost me a fortune to move from Spain to where I am now, so as part of my cut-backs the cats now have to chip in and work for their living. They are now Trainee Christmas Lights Cats (TCLC) unpaid !
Sonic on the bed
Murli flashing at the birds in the back garden
Samantha blew a fuse !
~Christmassy Evening In Graz~
A cold evening. My feet felt like penguin’s feet, but worth the tram ride into the centre of Graz to see the lights.
~Happy Cats~
“Merry Christmas everyone !”
Love Murli, Sonic and Samantha ❤ ❤ ❤
Samantha surrounded by stuffed friends
Natascha playing ball with Sonic
~Flying Truck?~
Bouncy truck ? I had some fun with my photo editor. Click on the photo to see the stabilisers, needed as there were men high up on a cherry-picker installing the city Christmas lights.
What does Christmas mean to you ?
Wherever you are in the world, whatever your faith or belief, have a lovely Christmas. Be kind to each other and that includes you crazy politicians !
Love, from our home in Austria
Ralph xox ❤
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Elles sont magnifiques tes photos… Bonne fêtes de fin d’année 🙂
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Merci Georges. Je vous souhaite un joyeux Noël et une bonne année à vous et à votre famille. Ralph 🙂
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to YOU ALL, I am so glad to see you all, Blessing and Happiness to you both, Thank you, Love, nia
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Hello dear Nia,
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment and may I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. Have fun my friend. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Merry Xmas friends, I love your black cat ! Love : )
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Thank you so much Lou Fox for your Christmas greetings and for liking my cats. I hope you have a wonderful time over the Christmas period. Ralph xox ❤
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So happy for you both. Merry Christmas.
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Thank you so much Lynne for being happy for us and may I wish you a Merry Christmas in return. Have a good one. Ralph xox ❤
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Ralph, lovely to hear from you. Grrr…sorry to hear about your hands and balance…I really hope that improves for you soon. The wheels of bureaucracy grind slowly but seems you’re getting there. Wishing you and Natasha a very special first Christmas together in the magical wintry Austrian landscape. Wrap up warm! Merry Christmas and warmest wishes for an amazing new year!
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Greetings dear Annika,
Grrr indeed ! I have been doing a bit of research lately and have stumbled across the exact name for my problem. It is called Essential Tremor and it is as common as muck. My Spanish Neurologist did not even mention it, kept going on with fancy names such as Lewis Sumner and all her treatments came to nothing. There is no cure for ET except for zapping a minute spot in my brain with ultrasound and it has to be exact or I would be turned into ET phone home.
Yes, the paperwork is almost finished and once married we will have to start all over again by changing my status from single to married and Natascha has many name changes to do as well, as she is taking my surname. Oh boy, it may stop one day !
Thank you so much and do have a lovely Christmas yourself my friend.
Love Ralph xox ❤
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Your experience with Spanish bureaucracy will come in handy.
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Surely will Gallivanta ! Have a lovely Christmas. Ralph xox ❤
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Merry Christmas to all of you Ralph and nice to see, that you are settling in, even if you have lots of paperwork 🙂
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Thank you Irene and may you have a lovely Christmas yourself. Ralph xox ❤
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Thank you, Ralph.
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So Happy that you are getting everything sorted Ralph, and lovely to see your photos.. Have a very Happy Christmas in your new Homeland.. And sending much love for your future..
Happy New Year to you both.
Hugs Sue xxx
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment dear Sue and may you have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Lovely to hear from you, Ralph. Well, congrats for the wedding to be and have a great Christmas. Austria is so Christmassy. 😘🙋 Stefy
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It is lovely to read your comment Stefy. As soon as Christmas is over, hopefully we will be able to set a date for our wedding with the registrar in Graz unless of course they want another piece of paper. Have a lovely Christmas. Ralph xox ❤
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So happy to hear from you, Ralph! Wishing you, Natascha and the cats a Happy Christmas and New Year! 🙂
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Thank you for your lovely comment MM and may we wish you a very happy Christmas. Ralph xox ❤
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Sorry you haven’t been well, Ralph, but you did an outstanding job on this post!! Have the Christmas of your dreams!
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I am feeling much better after reading your comment GP. Keep up the good work with the cartoons in your posts as I love to see them. Have a lovely Christmas. Ralph 🙂
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How wonderful that you are now feeling better Ralph after having received a comment/visit from (the) GP – get it? :))
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Well it was good of you to visit Ralph in your capacity of GP – a visit from the doc always aids recovery. :)))
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Ralph, I am so glad to hear from you as I so often wondered how you and Natasha were doing. Not good about you hands and balance. Hope it settles down as stress and bureaucracy ebbs away. You have had a major upheaval in your lives and I am not surprised if it affects you.
It all looks wonderful and all the sweet cats are settling in. Paperwork will sort bit by bit and it won’t be too far off before the bells are ringing for you and Natasha.
First, you have Christmas to celebrate and presents to wrap……and lazy mornings with even lazier breakfasts.
Sleigh ride would be wonderful but I couldn’t see any snow.
Hugs to you both
Miriam
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Thank you so much for your lovely long comment dear Miriam. No snow, but very cold here in Graz. I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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happy christmas to all of you, the whole kit and kaboodle ))))) good to hear from you !
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lol. There is definitely a whole kit and caboodle in my new home. Happy Christmas my friend and I hope that you have a wonderful day. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Happy Christmas Ralph and Natascha! Your first Christmas together as a couple – that must be so exciting. I wish you happiness always, Marie (Luke, your son haha)
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Thank you so much for writing such a lovely comment Marie. I really do appreciate it. Have a lovely Christmas and be happy. Ralph xox ❤
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Good to hear from you Ralph, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you both. I hope you take lots of wedding pictures to show us.
Leslie
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It is lovely to hear from you too Leslie. We still have a little more paperwork to do before setting a date to get married. We hope to get that done this week. I hope you have a lovely Christmas day today. Merry Christmas ! Love Ralph xox ❤
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Hugs to you both from Canada.
Leslie ❤
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Great to hear from you, wishing you both a wonderful Christmas together.much love Ute xx
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It is lovely to hear from you too dear Ute. I hope that the boys, Thomas and yourself are having a lovely Christmas day today. With love from us all. Ralph xox ❤
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Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to you all. 😀
Bureaucracy is such a pain in the ass … stay strong and remember to laugh when it all gets too absurd. 😀
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I totally agree with you Widdershins, bureaucracy is a real pain in the ass. That is great advice about laughing about it. Have a wonderful Christmas. Ralph 🙂
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Merry Christmas you two xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I don’t know what is going on dear Shey, but your comment was in my dashboard spam. It must be all part of Silv’s plan of world domination and making your life a misery. 😉
Have a wonderful Christmas my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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Ha ha. It must be xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Huh! I was just thinking about you this morning, as I ate my rather boring muesli with yoghurt. I don’t know what the connection was there, you’re sure not boring!
You and Natasha look so happy, and it seems the cats are getting along quite well, also. Have yourselves a most merry Christmas. Hugs to all of you from Down Under Here. oxo ❤
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That is amazing ! I was only thinking about you this morning when I was eating my rather boring cereals. Definitely a psychic connection (spooky) and you are definitely not boring my friend. I hope you had a lovely Christmas day as it must be almost over now down there. Love Ralph xox ❤
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But where is china cat?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Texas, USA. Best wishes to you and Natascha as you struggle with the paperwork. I look forward to seeing wedding pictures. Do you think the three meowgos would consent to being your attendants?
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China Cat is still in bubble wrap in the cupboard with Coo Coo as we still have plenty of work to do in the apartment and do not want China Cat stomped on and broken.
I hope you have a wonderful Texas yee hah Christmas my friend.
No, the three cats are always too sleepy to be interested in attending boring human things like weddings.
Take care my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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Happy Christmas dear Ralph. 🎄💕🤗
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Hello dear Amanda 🙂
I hope that you are having a lovely Christmas day and as a present I hope that all your dreams come true. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Auguri Ralph, buone Feste, 🙂
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Buon Natale Laura! So leggendo i tuoi post che farai meravigliosi piatti di cibo per la tua famiglia oggi. Buona giornata. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Grazie caro amico, un abbraccio grande, 🙂
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Wonderful to see how you and Natascha are doing. Love the photos, too. All the kitties with their shiny eyes are so adorable! Wishing y’all a Merry Christmas, and best wishes for the New Year. 🙂
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comment Barbara and I do hope that you are having a wonderful Christmas day. Have a good one. Ralph xox ❤
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, my dears!! 2018 will be brighter, you’ll see ❤
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment Annette and may you have a lovely day today, Christmas day. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Merry 1st Christmas together, guys ❤
The city's festive light display is really beautiful!
Love that extra twinkle in your cat's eyes, too 😉
Wishing you good health and continued happiness,
now and throughout the new year! 😻🎄🎉🎶🙏😊💜 Jackie@KWH
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So sweet ! Thank you so much for your lovely words Jackie. Yes, it is our first Christmas together and last night, Christmas eve, we spent with Natascha’s dad who cooked us a lovely traditional Christmas dinner.
Have a lovely Christmas day my friend. Love Ralph xox ❤
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May your world be filled with warmth and good cheer this Holy season, and throughout the year.
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Your music is wonderful Mihran. Thank you for the link. Have a lovely Christmas day today. Ralph 🙂
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Wishing you all a Happy Christmas. So glad to hear from you both. 🙂
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Thank you so much my friend and I hope that you are having a lovely Christmas. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Quiet and very hot; that’s lovely enough for me. 🙂
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Merry Christmas
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Thank you Maja. I hope that you are having a wonderful Christmas day my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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Very happy to hear that you are settling in, Ralph. I wish both of you a very Merry Christmas!! xo
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You are very kind to write such a lovely comment dear Tanya. Have a lovely day today, Christmas day. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Ralph and Natascha, It is so wonderful to hear from you, see pictures of Graz, and just generally know that you are pushing through the obstacles one at a time. Feliz Navidad to both of you and of course to your hard working cats.🎄💜
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comment dear Linda. We hope that you have a brilliant Christmas day. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Hi, dear Ralph, I know this is my second comment but I finally signed into wp.com so that I could leave a proper comment! LOL
You are a superman! No wonder you’re feeling a bit wobbly after all the moving and hustle and bustle over the last few months, you’ve had a crazy time!
I adore your little Christmas tree and I hope that all of you: Natasha, all of your furry babies and you enjoy your Christmas together and all good things come your way in 2018!
Amanda 🙂 ❤
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Hello again dear Amanda. Your comments are always proper even when not signed in. Shame really. lol.
I totally agree. The move has a lot out of both of us and it will take a while get settled. Christmas has helped a lot.
Thank you so much for your lovely words, I do appreciate them.
Have a lovely day today. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Beautiful pics and post dear Ralph… Merry Christmas and happy New year!!!!!!. xx 🤶💕♨️
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Merry Christmas dear Amalia. I am always in awe of your long and informative posts added to which you reply to hundreds of comments. I don’t know how you do it, maybe I should have a taste of what you are drinking. lol. Anyway, have a lovely day today my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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So lovely to hear from you Ralphie. I was thinking about you when I didn’t get any blog notifications. I’m glad you are safe and sound with your bride to be. Nobody said true love would be easy. Thank goodness you have the cats to help pull the weight, LOL.
Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas and much joy and good health for the New Year. ❤ xxx
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No. No notifications when I don’t post dear Debby. lol. Anyway, I have eventually got around to publishing something and I am so pleased to bring you up to date with what’s been going on with us. Amazingly, with what has been going on we are all together, safe and sound.
I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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Thank you Ralph. I’m just glad to know you’re ok. Merry Christmas my friend. 🙂 ❤
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Joy, love and peace to all!
It’s great to see things are coming along, nicely.
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎵❤️🎵🌈❤️🎵⭐️🧡🌲⭐️
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Ho, ho, ho ! Thank you so much for your lovely comment dear Resa. I hope your pussycats and flock of ducks are keeping you well entertained, maybe putting on a pantomime for you.
Lots of love from all of us here in Graz. Ralph xoxoxo ❤
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Happy Holidays to you Ralph and Natascha!!!
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Thank you YC.. Have a lovely day my friend. Ralph 🙂
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Dear Ralph, what a wonderful surprise! First you get to know a wonderful woman, then you marry her and finally you move to Austria!
I wish you and Natascha all the best for your wedding and your living together in Graz. It seems to be a beautiful city with all the Christmas decoration.
I am wishing you a happy Christmas and a warm new home with Samantha, Sonic and Murli and your sweet and beautiful wife Natascha!
All the best, my dear friend Ralph!
Celebrate the wonder and the joy of the festive season ❤ Merry Christmas ❤
Julia
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Hello dear Julia 🙂
Wow ! Thank you so much for your lovely long comment. So sweet !
I really do enjoy your posts and I am always wondering where you will end up next. I hope that over the next few years you will be well known in the fashion industry. Best of luck for your future.
I hope that you are having a wonderful Christmas. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Hi Ralph! Computer is STILL working!!! yay! I Wish You Well in your new life. I hope you get what you desire!
ps happy merry hannakwanzamasolstice!
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Hello Elisa 🙂
Wow, that is amazing that the computer is still working well after so long. I am so pleased that I was able to help in a small way. I hope that you are feeling better and that your life as turned into a positive and happy direction.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment and do have a wonderful Christmas. Ralph xox ❤
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Happy Holidays! If I told you last Christmas what you would be doing this Christmas, you would call me crazy!
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Thank you so much Greg for your fun comment. I totally agree with you, I would have called you crazy, but now I would have to eat my hat.
Merry Christmas, have a lovely day. Ralph 🙂
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I wish your paper work is completed soon and we get to see your wedding pics soon. Lovely pics of Natasha. All the best and happy holidays😊✨✨
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I must agree with you SKD. I am really hoping for the paperwork to be finished, but someone somewhere always seems to add to it. I will be doing a post with wedding photos when the day eventually happens.
Have a lovely day my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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It is good to hear from you again, Ralph. I am glad you are doing well despite your government paperwork problems. I enjoyed seeing the photos of the beautiful Christmas lights where you live and the funny cat photos. Merry Christmas to both you and Natascha! 🙂
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Hello dear Arlene 🙂
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. At least things are moving in the right direction and almost finished so that we can get on with living our own lives without the worry of more paperwork.
I hope things are turning better for you and that you will be able to relax somewhat.
Anyway, have a lovely Christmas today and I hope that you will have a wonderful time.
Love Ralph xox ❤
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Hi Ralph! 🙂
You are welcome. I can imagine this big move has been somewhat stressful for you (Is a combination of pleasure and pain a more accurate way to describe it?), and dealing with government bureaucracy and related paperwork can be frustrating.
I think things are getting better, but I am not sure if I will ever be able to relax again. Life keeps surprising me in unexpected ways.
I hope you and Natascha are having a wonderful Christmas too. Hopefully both of you will be able to relax too once you finish with all the work you have to do. 🙂
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Each photograph seems to hold examples of yours and Natascha’s love and resilience! It is well worth this transfer to another beautiful country to have True Love, Ralph. 💕
Sorry, you are now in a much colder climate, gorgeous views, though. . . Brrr-r! ⛄ 🌬🌫❄ ☃
Merry Christmas 🎄✨🕊 and may this upcoming 2018 bring you marriage and stability. ❤💙
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comment dear Robin. It’s really lovely. I hope you are having a great Christmas day my friend. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Merry Christmas
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Thank you so much. I hope you are having a super Christmas yourself. Ralph 🙂
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Thank you so much Ralph-
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Merry Christmas!! So happy for you!! Have a blessed New Year!!
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I hope you had a wonderful Christmas dear Rene and not having to work. Thank you for your lovely comment and do have a great New Year my friend. By the way I still have your unopened bottle of maple syrup which I brought with me from Spain. I promise to open it one day. Love Ralph xox ❤
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Aww, so nice that you remembered and brought it with you. I did have a wonderful Christmas and am so happy! xoxo
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Sounds like life is a bit hectic for you, Ralph. But also sounds like you are making a lot of progress. Really like how you used the phrase ‘brain frying’. Sometimes life is just like that. Great to see you take a bit of a walk around Vienna. Looked like a great time there aside from all the paperwork. Good luck for the New Year ahead!
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Yes, it has definitely be hectic and progress is gradually being made. I am now a certified citizen of Graz and my Austrian health card arrived in the post yesterday. Yay, only our marriage paperwork to go. Yes, it was a lovely day in Vienna, but we did get lost and had to get a taxi. Brain frying ! lol. Happy New Year dear Mabel. Hugs Ralph xox ❤
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So good to see you again. Despite your description on your health, you look wonderful. She’s beautiful, alright. I wish you both Merry Christmas and a new year continued happiness and always!
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Thank you Byung. It’s good to see you here too. With my hands as they are, pretty useless really, Natascha is being wonderful, helps me so much and she loves to do it. I am so lucky to be with her. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and do have a brilliant 2018. Hugs Ralph xox ❤
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Merriest Christmas, Ralph and a happy, prosperous and healthiest New Year!😊
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Thank you so much for your kind wishes Little Lilly and do have a wonderful New Year yourself my friend. Hugs Ralph xox ❤
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Dear Ralph. Lovely to read a post from you 🙂
I love your photos – it looks so Christmassy – wrap up warm!
Hoping the paperwork all sorts out soon.
Wishing you and Natascha a very happy and healthy new year together, with lots of smiles and good times.
Your friend
Carly
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment dear Carly. Wrapping up warm is on the top of my agenda as we have planned to go to C&A next week to get me upgraded from my Spanish wardrobe of short sleeve shirts to something more suitable to wear in this Austrian winter. The only paperwork left to do concerns us getting married, everything else is done including my residency and changing my health card from Spain to an Austrian one. Got it in the post yesterday.
I do hope that your operation will be soon and successful my friend. I wish you well and do have a much better 2018. Hugs Ralph xox ❤
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Ooh, a trip to C&A sounds like a good plan 🙂 Glad most of your paperwork is sorted…hope the marriage papers can be sorted out too, without too much hassle…and then you can be married!! ❤ ❤
Hugs to you too!
Carly
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It’s great to see a new post from you. I’d checked just before Christmas and there hadn’t been anything.
Beauracracy is a pain isn’t it, hopefully you will get sorted before too long.
Everywhere looks beautiful, especially lit up like it is for Christmas.
Happy New Year to you all, I hope it is an awesome one 🙂 x
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It’s great to see you here too Juls and thank you so much for your wonderful comment. Happy New Year to you too and hope that 2018 will be a better year for you my friend 🍾🥂💖
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Happy New Year! Hope you two love birds have lots of fun, stay warm and cozy!! 💕 🍷🍷🍾
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In spite of all the crap you are having to go through you are still hilarious!
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So true ! It has been a difficult few months, but we are getting there. Blogging, for me, is a fun way to get it out of my system. Happy New Year Terre and thank you for your spot- on comment my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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I can see you’re having lots of fun. I hope you’ll soon invite me for the wedding….looking forward to!!!
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Hah ! Definitely a lot of fun ! We are still waiting for the paperwork to be sorted and then we can get a date to get married. The year 2305 is looking good. lol
Happy new year my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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You just have to get used to have penguin’s feet in the cold of Austria, but love will keep you warm. Good to hear from you again. Happy 2018.
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Yes, cold feet are quite normal for me here and when I wake up in the morning warm feet are bliss. Have a prosperous 2018 my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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Happy New Year to you and Natasha, if I ever visit Austria I will ask for your tips 🙋🏼. I’m sorry to hear the big move North took a toll on you but here’s to a happy, healthy 2018 👍🏻 all my best wishes Charlotte
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I know it is only a couple of days into 2018, but I hope the year is going well for you Charlotte. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I really do appreciate it. Have a wonderful year my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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Such beautiful lights – amazing xx
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The Christmas lights in Graz were really lovely. Shame I had cold feet ! I wonder what the lights were like where you live Sandra ?
Love Ralph xox ❤
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Oh I forget that you don’t see my Facebook – I did a Facebook Live with all the Christmas lIghts in my City – there was an adult and baby polar bear all lit up in the centre as wells ton of other beautiful lights. I am currently finishing off my quirkybooks.net ebook store site – finally! So people can buy my books directly from my site. I am using a third part to actually host and process my book payments, but it seems like a good system and the theme I bought originally I had problems with and the developer was not going to solve it – so I thought this was a great option.
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Oh and I saw the stabilisers – very funny.
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Maybe HGV learners need stabilisers on their trucks ! lol ❤
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Ha! – Yeah too true x
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My Doberman Pinchers would not play nice with your kitties I’m afraid to say but I love em, cats I mean, just can’t rescue any not with my 2 love bugs around -I never doubted you were an animal lover though..
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Oh yes, I love both dogs and cats, but I do prefer cats, probably because I have lived with two for over 13 years. I must agree with you Alana, your two and my cats will not get on. I do hope that you are well and happy my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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https://riamenians.wordpress.com/ also my site if you would care to visit… Love Alana
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Your new town is so, so pretty Ralph. You do look so happy!
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Thank you Kate. Graz Is a lovely city. It’s a shame that these young men that came from Africa and the Middle East are ruining it. Natascha was rudely abused the other day while going to the pharmacy, which she has to twice a day for medication for migraine relief. She is going on a self defence course in a few weeks to defend herself from any more abuse or attack. Otherwise, the city and general population are lovely. Take care my friend. Ralph xox ❤
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