Tarting around at the Tate

Walking along by the river Thames we stopped here and there to admire various sights such as a big pirate ship, our own shadows and the Globe Theatre. Despite having studied English Literature to A Level and being fairly down with the Bard, I’d never seen the Globe in real life. It’s big, white and [...]

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London

More photos from our trek around the capital Click for the set

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Borough Market

I went out yesterday. Work is for pansies. PANSIES, I tell you. Real women take the day off work and go up to London to see how many free samples of yummy food they can find at Borough Market. For that is where I went and indeed what I did. Actually I did more than [...]

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Mmm, cosy

There’s a CD on ebay.de at the moment called “Austropop – zum Kuscheln” – that is, a collection of songs for snuggling. Most of the songs on the album have titles like “Can’t you hear”, “Let yourself fall”, “This is my girl”, “Addicted” and “You are like the winter sun”. I can understand all those [...]

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Travel plans and thwarted egotism

So, this 7 Days thing. I’m actually not going to be in my usual country for 3 of the 7 days as I’m going to Salzburg for two nights. My last visit to the city was the few days I spent there with Suzy in December 2004 (we heartily recommend the St. Sebastian youth hostel), [...]

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At the supermarket

Not my taste, but I suppose the combination may appeal to pregnant women …

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Total lunar eclipse

Lots of other people were outside photographing the eclipse last night, I’m sure. But how many of them were doing so in their pyjamas and dressing gown? Just me? Ok then.

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I am woman, hear me roar …

… and watch me destroy stuff. Things are afoot in my vegetable patch. My patch is a not particularly big piece of ground at the bottom of our garden, backed by a trellis fence covered in ivy and vinca. Over the past years I’ve carefully wound all the trailing stems of ivy and vinca around [...]

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