Holding your tongue until you have something good to say is generally a good idea. Being so full of negativity that you practically explode from not talking, isn’t. Especially if your negativity is toxic enough to radiate into your surroundings. I don’t have a lot of answers or suggestions for you, I just know that […]
Talk about idyllic 🙂
This is my table. It’s a work in progress at the moment. A couple of years ago a friend saw it sitting forlornly on a pavement, thought of me and rescued it by packing it into her huge van and bringing it over. We fought it up the stairs and that’s where it stayed until […]
Dear amazing women of the world, I apologise. I apologise for letting the side down. Again. I apologise for not being able to compare to your incredible standards of awesomeness. Again. I apologise for my lack of ability (and interest) to keep house the way houses are supposed to be kept. For my chaos. For […]
I’m not actually sure that this applies to anyone else, but it’s something that really bothers me. If you’re going to do something for me, do it because you want to and not in order to tell me about having done it (because, chances are, I would have done it if you hadn’t got there […]
Most people would probably think of baubles presents or sparkly sweet wrappers if you asked them for a Christmas tree tradition. Some might have a decorating ritual, or a special stand. Some might go out into the forest and cut their own. The DB has his own tradition. The tree hides, or tries to hide, […]
( – or being praised and proud of it – ) As most of you know, I made a very complicated, old-fashioned, obsolete pump for my Masterpiece. A couple of months ago the editor of the German Glassblowers Quarterly* appeared at work and asked me to send him a report of how I made it, […]
I used to cook a lot. When I lived in a shared house I often cooked for everyone. When I lived by myself I lost some of my motivation, but when i cooked, it was with increased creativity and of a more experimental nature. Then I moved here. The DB is more a traditional than […]
DB: Do you collect loo rolls? Me: Heh? *recalls the 3 cardboard tubes on the bathroom shelf* No, I thought you did..? Apparently we have a phantom loo-roll-starter…
Anyone know out there got any ideas on how to be grateful for the ‘nice’ things people do for you, but which you didn’t actually want them to do..? What about for the ‘helpful’ tips they share with you when you really can’t appreciate them..?
It rained on the way to the train station. Really hard. Hailed too. I understand that it has to rain sometimes. I know the ground is rock hard. I know the farmers have been practically begging for rain for weeks. That’s all good and logical. I’m all for happy farmers. However. Why can’t it rain […]
If you are the sort of person who not only wakes up at the same time every morning and gets the same train at the same time, but also reads the same newspaper, after a while, your friendly newspaper vendor will recognise you and have your newspaper folded and ready for you when you walk […]
* There’s a lot to be said for getting wood cut professionally – the corners were square and it didn’t wobble when we joined it together. * There’s also a lot to be said for measuring properly. Which we didn’t. There’s a lot of difference between 1370 and 1365mm. Especially when that’s the measurement all […]
I moved to Berlin in January. Most of my things moved in after me. Most of them still live in the boxes we moved them in. For the last few months my bookcase looked like this: No[t much] longer! First, the DB chose a good space for a bookcase. Then we measured it. Then I […]
Isn’t that just amazing?? 🙂