On therapeutic pancakes
Sometimes pancakes are the best kind of therapy…
On moving in and out of the dark ages
In Germany it’s common to take all your fittings and fixtures with you when you move house. From the kitchen cupboards to the oven, from the showerhead to the toilet roll holder, from the curtain rails to the lightbulbs. They leave nothing but the barest of bare bones. In some extreme cases they even take […]
On staying in my pyjamas
ALL day 🙂 Some days are pyjama days. Today was one of them.
On a bridge in Hamburg
It stopped raining briefly and the sun came out to say hello before she set.
On discovering a baby
Look! Ok, you might need some help if you don’t know what you’re looking for.. Isn’t it awesome?! 4 of the 7 miniature schrimp I bought a month ago were ‘pregnant’. At some point I noticed that they were no longer carrying their eggs, but there was no sign of the babies anywhere. Until now. […]
On aphids (and making a mess in the kitchen)
On the grounds that I still don’t feel like doing all the things I ought to be doing, I stopped at a garden centre on my way home from work and bought another bag of compost.. ..which I then proceeded to spread all over the kitchen floor. (It’s cold outside, and I need to wash the […]
On making a mess in the dark
I started planting my balcony boxes almost a month ago. Various things kept getting in the way, and I kept wishing I could get out and finish them. Today, I left work earlier than usual and decided to ignore most of the things I should have been doing, and instead spent the evening playing in […]
On lacking trust
This morning I bought 10 chocolate catfish. They are small and dark brown and incredibly cute. The saleslady at the fish market said they’d grow to approximately 4-5cm long – perfect for my tank. I had no signal in the salesroom, so I couldn’t check anything online. I bought the fish, based purely on sight […]
On complicated coffee
I went out for coffee with a guy from school and his wife today. I’d borrowed some books for him and he was returning them now that school’s over. It was too cold to stand outside the library for long so we decided to find a cafĂ©. Most cafĂ©s don’t appreciate cards, so I went […]
On waking up on the sofa
At 11pm I sat on my sofa, phone in hand, ready to write my post for the day. At 3am (ish) I woke up on my sofa, phone in lap, still postless. *** Ho-hum. Good night people.
Quote: on coming alive
“Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman *** One of my favourite people told me today that she sees me as a “PowerFrau”. That translates literally as “power woman”, but kind of […]
On peppers in November
(posted on the 1st, but somehow got stuck in the works) One of my customers brought me a chili-pepper plant today. He wanted to thank me for getting his glass stuff finished so quickly. I didn’t actually have very much to do with his glass, my colleague did 95% of the work, but I do […]
On days without news
Usually, the radio goes on when my colleague gets to work, and goes off when I leave. He can’t stand adverts, so we listen to ‘Deutschland Radio’ and ‘Deutschland Radio Kultur’ which generally makes for a good mixture of news and interesting information about a huge range of topics. Anything from book reviews to current scientific […]
On looking helpless and being helpfull
I can only claim half the title credits… the other half goes to the incredible computer guy at work.. *** “I need a new toner cartridge for the printer” “Ok, that’s fine, but you’ll have to order one yourself..” “???” “Uh, yeah, since they implemented the new system, I’m no longer responsible..” “Oh. So how […]