On blisters (and carrots)
I’m used to getting blisters at work. The sort caused by touching glass before its had a chance to cool down properly. I’m not used to getting blisters from washing carrots… Edit (3rd Nov): Squeaky clean 🙂
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On strike
We have a long haired dog to stay for a week. I’m not vacuuming or mopping til he goes home.
On yelling
Early evening. Dark, except for a few streetlights. A couple with a dog. Walking. Behind them, at the far end of a side street 2 figures can just about be made out in the shadows. Yelling. Shouting. Mean words, angry voices. Screams. “Help!” Shrieks. “Help! Let go of me! Help! He’s going to kill me! […]
On getting fitter from the outside in
I’ve been drinking this herbal fitness tea for a while now, and I don’t seem to be much fitter yet.. Yesterday I poured most of a cup onto my leg instead of into my mouth, maybe it has more potency that way! I can hope, right?!
On compost heaps and Peruvian chickens
“Wherever you go, you can collect all kinds of plants to take home for your compost heap, unless you’re really busy doing other stuff – like looking after Peruvian chickens* for example.” – The Voice of Authority in my dream. Apparently dreams are your brain’s way of processing what happens during the day. Sometimes, when […]
On getting sentimental about cutlery and cheese graters
I’ve been here almost two years already, and, until yesterday, still had a couple of boxes in DB’s parents’ cellar. I didn’t unpack them when I first moved in because we (DB and I) still had the crazy hopeful idea of knocking the kitchen and dining room together. One side of the wall* was already […]
On correcting but not conforming
We have to send the planning office a plan of all the medium we need in the new workshop. Where the gas, oxygen and water pipes have to end, where we want to put the phone and the computer etc. They’re the ones who know how to plan, we’re the ones who know how to […]
On filling an aquarium / Or preparing one – part 2
Usually, when setting up an aquarium (especially for fussy fish like discus), one starts planning a month or so in advance. That leaves plenty of time to fill it up, and let the pump, the filter and the water get used to each other. There’s enough time for the chemicals in the tap water to […]
On preparing an aquarium – part 1
We started with the glass. The DB’s father had 2 aquariums, neither of which was in use. The short version would be: we chose one, washed it out and took it home. The real life version was more complicated but that’s not relevant here.. 🙂 Anyway. We had an aquarium we wanted to use. DB […]
On coughing too much to smoke
I don’t smoke (and never have) but DB does. Or at least used to. He hasn’t smoked AT ALL since Friday. DB is so ill atm that he can hardly breathe, never mind talk; smoking is unthinkable. Much as I want him to get well as soon as possible, it would be soooo good if […]
On nerves and internal plumbing
Can somebody tell me how come nerves and limelight and stagefright and bladders are so directly connected? (No. I didn’t wet myself, I just always have to run for the loo right before anything important happens)
On thinking instead of sleeping
It’s half past midnight* and I am lying in a crisp white hotel bed. I’m probably supposed to be asleep, although I know that lots of my peers are at the bar, drinking mostly, and talking. The rest, including DB, went to bed a while ago and are presumably sleeping soundly. DB is snuffling more […]
On the 27th September…
…I celebrated 10 years in Germany… TEN YEARS!!!
On baby fish – part 4
(April 2014) One month old! If fish were interested in celebrating anything, they could have celebrated having lived for a whole month. All except 3 anyway. Since they don’t much care for anything besides swimming, looking cute and eating, we had to celebrate for them. We (DB, his folks and I) went to an Indian […]
On baby fish – part 3
(Late March 2014) At 3 1/2 weeks old, baby fish are still really really small, as in, small enough to be barely measured in millimetres.. They are also incredibly fast swimmers. Adult discus fish can swim fast but don’t very often, they can spend hours practically not moving. The babies didn’t spend 3 seconds not […]