"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

  • Good Things Friday

    MY birthday It was my birthday this week, and along with that came the obligatory eating. My Dad rang me up last Friday “I’m ringing for your Mum, she wants…

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  • List #1: My favourite ways to eat leftovers

    If you read my 101 list carefully (don’t worry if you didn’t) you may have noticed #5—50 lists blog project. This is the first entry. So leftovers, some people love…

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  • October’s Books

    I didn’t finish any books in November with all our travel but here’s the books I read in October The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays – Wendell Berry…

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  • Good Things Friday

    I know NaBloPoMo is finished but it’s Friday and I just had to do a good things post. TRAVEL … AND COMING HOME If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ll…

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  • Dachau – Sat Nov 26th

    We had to be in Munich to catch our flights home so we decided to arrive a day earlier to fit in a trip to Dachau. E was probably the…

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  • In The Garden – November 2023

    It’s now the 30th of November here, so the end of NaBloPoMo. I just checked my number of posts for November and there are twenty-seven, this post makes twenty-eight and…

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  • Stuttgart to Munich – Fri 25th November

    This morning we had a few hours to get breakfast and wander round Stuttgart before boarding our train to Munich. We had a look around Schloss Platz in the daytime.…

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  • I am home!

    E and I arrived home late last night. G is in the UK visiting clients. One advantage of flying in late is that we could just go straight to bed,…

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  • Stuttgart, Porsche and Esslingen Christmas Markets – Thurs 24th Nov

    Today was our final factory tour, this one at Porsche. We were a but rushed getting there because one of the trains out there was cancelled so we had a…

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  • Stuttgart Mercedes day – Wed 22nd Nov

    I’m mainly skipping past Tuesday which was our travel day from Munich, which involved a long train trip. We did enjoy an excellent dinner at the Cube restaurant in the…

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