While it wasn’t nearly as cool as hitchhiking round Ireland with one’s miniature fridge, I’d argue that driving accross Berlin during rush hour with a nearly-full-sized fridge on the folded down back seats of your car is slightly more nerve wracking, especially if it’s dark, drizzling, and the rear windscreen wiper doesn’t clean the top […]
I wrote this while on holiday in January. (I will aim to make the links work soon). *** (Trigger Warning – contains information about sex-trafficking. May also contain too-much-information about periods…) *** I was going to write a whinging, whining, self-pitying post about how stupid and mean and unfair and generally ‘meh’ it is, to not […]
One I wrote a long time ago (mid summer, sometime) and never got round to sending.. *** Until recently I’ve always been a bit, I don’t know, snotty about yoga. I first heard about it 15 years or so ago when it was propagated as ‘not a good thing’ by the church youth group. I […]
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself. – Brittany Renée (Just to fill a bit of the gap before I finally post one of the million half-finished posts […]
Baby-Essay is finished and handed in. Presentation has been presented. I now have excess writing capacity and two months of repressed ideas – you have been warned 🙂
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life”. – Socrates* I have been, and indeed still am, stupidly busy for a month or so – as witnessed by the emergence of a barren wasteland on this blog. “This too shall pass”* I will hopefully be back to writing semi-regularly in a year or so (maybe earlier […]
Reading old scientifical papers is hardgoing, but occasionally it makes up for it by throwing me a delightful new word.. Any guesses what “quinquennium” means? no? I had no idea, but it was too good not to look up… Turns out it’s a […]
My dad’s arms are this big! My dad’s are much bigger – and stronger.. Mine’s been training; working out and everything. Mine’s been training for 10 years – chin-ups every morning before work. Mine’s got legs like trees Mine doesn’t bother about his legs – he says no one can see them in the club. He’s […]
I’m not sure why 1337 is considered a cool number, but WordPress has just congratulated me, so I’m guessing it must be. I am a bit of a lot bewildered that so many of you luffly people read what I write, and a lot of a lot more amazed that you like it enough to […]
I just spent the best part of 2 hours in a queue 50+ people long, waiting for someone to give me a ticket number for an approximate-time appointment in October… Gotta love beaurocrats!
This morning started the same way most mornings do – in a bid to stay in bed and pretend the world wasn’t actually expecting me to get up and be useful. I spent longer than I meant to looking for the paperwork I needed to take with me, which resulted in missing the train I […]
As of 10 days ago, apparently, and I missed it. Hello new people, welcome to my world. Have a biscuit or 3 and let me know what you’re thinking. (There are currently just over 1000 other thoughts on here – missed which one was the 1000th too) *** @Dearlilyjune: Looks like I’m going to have […]
I have “Daumenknochenhautentzündung”. “Thumb bone skin inflammation” sounds pretty impressive, but German is a whole lot cooler :). I think the Latin is periostitis but I may well be wrong. I didn’t know that was even a thing until yesterday, I just knew my thumb hurt. Apparently, all bones are covered with a very thin, […]
If you ever happen to find yourself invited to a German party, remember to turn up at least half an hour before the time on the invite. It doesn’t matter what kind of event it is. Birthday, Barbecue, Leaving do. In the last couple of weeks, I have been late to 3 different “occasions” despite […]