“Chips”? Oh, you mean “chips”.

I am not a breakfast person. Eating early in the morning just isn’t for me. I don’t disagree with the notion, but it disagrees with me. Thus, Little Miss I’ll Eat Whatever Isn’t Nailed Down went down to breakfast without me on our last morning in Vienna. Barefoot. In a four star hotel. But she [...]

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Dalliance with the Danube

Let me take you back to 22nd June – our second day in Vienna and the day of the concert. We took the underground to the Donauinsel, crossed the bridge over the river – hello Danube! So, you’re the one all the fuss is about? We looked at our map, looked at our instructions, spotted [...]

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In which I break the rules of a meme. And the world doesn’t end. At least not immediately.

The very lovely Rayne, queen of surreal tangential thoughts, has very kindly bestowed upon me a Thinking Blogger award. See? There it is: She also said some very nice things about me. Well, I’m going to take “Romancer of Gourds” as a compliment, whichever way it was intended. Though my days as a Madam Pumpkin [...]

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Why I like working with my brother

the phone rings Me: Hurro! Him: Hurro! Me: What do you want? Him: Two things. Me: Aaand when do you want them? Him: NOW!

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Matchmaking

At last, the male flowers on my pumpkin vines have decided that opening would be a jolly game. So this morning I had – *gasp* – an open female flower and a number of male suitors lined up ready and waiting. I could have relied on insects to, err, spread the love, but I prefer [...]

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Large green things

We’ve had a fair amount of rain recently, with a huge downpour this morning. Somehow the sun has made it out from behind the clouds after all these showers and rainy periods and so my veg patch has been in a somewhat euphoric state. The sunflowers are huge and most have multiple heads on them. [...]

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7 Days Summer 2007 mosaic

7 Days was another fabulous week of inspiring photography, vanity and comment love. We had two theme days this time – “outside” and “green” – which brought forth some interesting interpretations. We’ll definitely be doing a theme or two next time – and to answer the group’s very own “FAQ”, the project will return in [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – and back I go …

… into my cupboard. Thanks for playing along with 7 Days everybody :-) The project will return in about 3 months and we hope you’ll join us again … and I hope I’ll have come up with some more ideas by then too.

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