What is it about waiting rooms that make them so unlovable?? Someone obviously spent time decorating them. Someone chose furniture and pictures. Someone waters the plants and refills the flyers in the stand. But. Somehow, however hard they try, it never really gets it, whatever ‘it’ is. It would make sense if it was ugly […]
New Year, New Habit? No way. Too much work. New Year, New Hobby? Na, I was just getting good at last year’s – better stick with that for a while. *** Mondays have a bad reputation. They don’t seem to care too much about it though, preferring to carry right on with what got them […]
Aren’t sticky labels just awesome? 🙂 Also, these mini binders..
Don’t do it if you’re planning to move house any time afterwards. Make sure both you and the person you’re borrowing from write down what the book’s called.
Today I learned something I didn’t want to know. Today I found out something about myself which I’d rather wasn’t true. Today the doctor produced the paperwork to show me what I didn’t want to see. …I have lactose intolerance… (and maybe gluten intolerance as well, but that needs more testing). Okay, so it could […]
I usually like talking to people. One of the people I talk to most these days is my work colleague. He has interesting viewpoints and is knowledgeable about subjects I’ve never considered finding out about. It makes lunch breaks more like lectures, but it’s fascinating and I’m learning a lot. 🙂 Today, I had to […]
<- part 3 You can’t just be traditional, you have to do some outlandish things sometimes. My Christmas box had been ignored. This is the result: The dark bit in the middle is the skylight, and the light isn’t the moon it’s a handblown*, handpainted*, hand-put-together* glowing bauble. My curtain stars are hanging away from […]
<- part 2 ….Then I moved in with DB. DB is German. DB’s parents are German. All of them were born and live in [former] East Germany. There is a lot of tradition involved in a German Christmas, and a whole lot more in an East German one. I’m not sure why, or even if […]
<- part 1 ….Then I moved out. I also had a Christmas box, though mine was decidedly smaller – my flat was also smaller than the house ;). My treasures consiated of 3 or 4 strings of fairy lights, red, gold and silver stars outlines to hang on the curtains, home-made glass baubles and icicles […]
Once upon a time I lived in a house where we didn’t think about Christmas until all the birthdays were over (mid December). We had a huge (to a small child) box in the attic marked “Christmas”. It was brought downstairs a few days in advance, so we could walk round it and my parents […]
Today was a busy day. I would most have liked to stay in bed, but there were Things that needed doing. My list was a very indoorsy kind of list, things like finally unpacking the computer and pottering around in my corner, but DB said the outdoorsy things on his list were more important because […]
Temperature is a funny thing. Winter has just about reached Berlin. It’s something like -1′ in the mornings when I walk to work from the station. I spent most of the day shivering. The workshop was freezing, despite the flames and the fact thatthe window was newly wedged shut with a borrowed door stopper. The […]
I have 2 jobs. Both are part time, but I always work full days, if that makes sense. One of the companies I work for bought me a brand new computer today. I’ve never had a brand new computer before, unless you count my first laptop, which I suppose I do, and even that was […]
Sometimes I feel like a little kid. Sometimes I don’t care. Some days can be saved by an hour or so of undivided attention from a duvet. Today was one of those days. Having been undividedly attentioned by my duvet I am now ready to get up and make polite conversation over dinner. 🙂 Thank […]
If you want to park in central Berlin, you’re better off with a Smart than a VW bus… especially if you want to go to a concert 🙂