April 2019
Friday 19th April 2019 (Good Friday)
This Easter weekend promises amazing weather. This afternoon - Good Friday we drove over to the other side of Lake Zurich simply to enjoy the colourful scenes of apple and cherry trees in blossom.
On the side of the Etzel there is one particular viewpoint I enjoy. From there you can see pretty well all of Hombrechtikon at one glance. In the foreground is the island of Ufenau.
On the side of the Etzel there is one particular viewpoint I enjoy. From there you can see pretty well all of Hombrechtikon at one glance. In the foreground is the island of Ufenau.
Saturday 20th April 2019
Dying eggs
Our Easter tradition includes dying Easter eggs using onion-skin dye.
This is how it works
First gather your materials. A pair of scissors, some cotton thread, fresh white eggs from the farm and freshly picked wild flowers and leaves.
Cut some pieces of nylon tights.
Then choose some attractively shaped leaves or flowers and
Then choose some attractively shaped leaves or flowers and
…fasten them to the egg using the nylon and a piece of thread.
Soak a quantity of onion skins in a pan of hot water. When the mixture is a rich brown colour, boil the eggs in it for ten minutes.
When the eggs are ready, take them out and rinse them in cold water.
Then comes the exciting bit:
When the eggs are ready, take them out and rinse them in cold water.
Then comes the exciting bit:
…cut open the nylon and look at the pattern which the flowers and leaves have made on the egg.
The only thing left then is to polish the eggs up with some butter…
The only thing left then is to polish the eggs up with some butter…
…and lay them out decoratively for Easter Sunday.
Sunday 21st April 2019
On Easter Sunday we joined together with others for a wonderful Easter breakfast and celebration at our local church.
A colourful Easter
This Easter has fallen at a time when nature is at its most colourful.
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Here are my details:
Here are my details:
Mobile
078 609 56 51
+41 78 609 56 51
+41 78 609 56 51
Location
Tödistrasse 9, 8634 Hombrechtikon
(New address from 24th March 2018)
(New address from 24th March 2018)
If you are travelling from Rüti / Wolfhausen, drive past the Hombrechtikon place-name sign for about 300 metres and turn right into Tödistrasse, just before the Tobel bus stop.
Approaching from Hombrechtikon
If you are approaching from the centre of Hombrechtikon, follow the signs to Rüti. At the Tobel junction (the Methodist Church is on the left) turn left. Tödistrasse is the next turning on the left, just past the Tobel bus stop.
The entrance to our new flat is about 100 metres from the junction with Rütistrasse, on the left-hand side of the road.
The house number is number 9 and we are on the first floor.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
Arriving by bus
If you arrive by bus from Bubikon, get off the bus at Tobel and follow Tödiweg until you get to Tödistrasse. Our house is on the right.