Dwight Peck's personal website
Christmas
2006 in Ollon, Switzerland
Winter
2006-2007 spent waiting around for winter
Dr
Durham has got a new house in Ollon, Switzerland, and we're here to celebrate
the Christmas holiday and fog.
You
may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a
good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught
up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go. 
Ollon
at its gloomiest, 24 December 2006, from a little way up the hill behind it.

Dinner's
on the boiler and we're out for a hike from Ollon up over one of our old annual
running routes through the cliffs above the town over to the vicinity of Aigle.

Dr
Durham above vineyards in her Christmas colors

Dr
Durham relaxing by the chute de pierre, or steinschlag, or rockfall danger sign

Returning
to Ollon on Christmas Eve, with the Dent de Morcles looming above

Ollon
and the Dent de Morcles

Christmas
Eve in Ollon, 2006. Coming up on time for dinner.

Dr
Durham's highly original kitchen, with Christmas Eve dinner in the microwave (this
year it's Mongolian fondue!)

Dr
Durham lays out the Mongolian fondue, a traditional Christmas specialty

Famished
diners assembled: (from left) Dr Durham, Dr Durham, and (on the right) Dr Durham

A
selection of Drs Durham (with the traditional Swiss paper crown out of the Christmas
cake)

Two
Drs Durham (André with traditional paper crown), with a concerned citizen

0.5%
of Dr Durham's collection of Venetian masks

Some
of Dr Durham's collection of bustiers and model thoraxes

Some
of Dr Durham's collection of Asian puppets and Venetian harlequins

Some
of Dr Durham's collection of still more puppets

One
of Dr Durham's collection of kids

Dr
Durham the Younger and the Christmas camera

Dr
Durham's mannequin observing the Opening of the Presents enviously

Careful
scrutiny of the Christmas presents (Mr Peck received a lovely shirt, an astrological
beer mug, and a windshield ice-scraper)

Durhams
playing Christmas-present jokes on each other

Mercedes
stirring up the Christmas dinner

Christmas
day in Ollon, viewed out the 18th century windows

Definitely
time for Christmas dinner

The
15th annual Christmas photo on the sofa

(from
left) Dr Durham, Dr Durham, and Dr Durham

(from
right) Dr Durham, Dr Durham, and (on the left) Dr Durham

Under
the Christmas rug (from left), Dr Durham, Dr Peck. (The "47 km coast
guard" is the nickname of the Slovenian navy. Really.)

Dr
Durham carving what looks like a turkey, but isn't really. It's something else.

Dante
and the roasted capon

Big
and fat now, dinner's over, it's time to go home and wait around for the snow.
Thanks for the grub, Drs Durham.
Further
info: Ollon in September 2006

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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 9 February 2007, revised 26 September 2008, 23 March 2014.
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