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A warm shawl

It’s getting colder, slowly but continuously. That leaves us enough time for knitting a warm and fluffy shawl. That’s a lot of fun and even cheaper than buying one. I bought a wool mixture of Schachenmayr called Boston. The price of 4 ravels is between 16 and 20$. I knitted with a size 11 needle. […]

Currywurst and Church

Up to now I’ve only seen that in Berlin! Beneath the bell tower of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche you can buy souvenirs but as well savour the famous Berliner Curry Wurst (a sausage cut in pieces, served with a spicy tomato sauce) and Reibekuchen (potato pancake). To the chimes of the bell many tourists take a quick […]

Technical difficulties

The last update of a plugin for galleries does not function as requested. That’s why at the moment you don’t see any pictures at all or can’t open the gallery at the end of a post. We’re working on it and we’ll try to deliver fullsize pictures as soon as possible. Then I’ll also publish […]

First autumn wreath

At every second market stand we saw brightly shining spots of lilac, pink and white heather. So I just bought some of them for my nearly empty summer flower buckets. Back home I remembered all the pictures of autumnal wreaths I had seen on different web sites. I cut off some twigs of heath for […]

Angallis arvensis

This plant is lightly toxic and causes diarrhea if savoured by horses, dogs and probably donkeys too. The tinkering donkey however is afflicted by some virus that makes writing, handicraft and anything else impossible. The device now is drinking a lot, following the doctor’s diet and keeping calm. Hope you dont’t mind that this means […]