At the beginning of the month, we joined in the local village Tirolean festivities to celebrate the return of the livestock from the pastures - the Almabtrieb.
This was particularly nice because it was not at all touristic, 
just local farmers and families and our friend Meinhard was working at the bar! Click here and you can see a short film of the lederhosen slapping dance. A little calf was also born during our stay.
In mid September Alister spent a very enjoyable long weekend in London, revisiting his old department at Imperial College, seeing old friends and walking along a very lively South Bank with Marielaure.
Uncle Roger timed his visit to Munich perfectly during his European
tour, coinciding with the opening weekend of the Oktoberfest. For the first tim
e, we watched the festival procession from the comfort of a grandstand - well needed for the two hour event! We were all very happy to see Roger again 
and the children were particularly excited and could understand, from experience, the magnitude of his trip from New Zealand.The weekend after Roger's departure for Simon and Jane in Devon, guess what, we returned to our hut in Austria and came home with a special ball of fluff called "Tirol", specially selected from the kittens playing in the barn.
Apart from that in general:
Alister's shoulder is repairing well, started some gentle swimming. Work is returning to normal.
Delphine continues to improve the house furnishings and keeps track of the children's busy schedules.
Mattéo enjoys school and is starting to recognise some words. Swimming like a fish and starting pottery next week (after soccer and cricket practice during the weekend).
Juliette is very chatty and has a busy social life with her little friends. She enjoys her dancing and music classes.
