My dear friend Simone from Junglefrog Cooking and Scribbles&Notes and her partner Tom are adopting triplets this week and it is a wonderful reason to celebrate and have a kitty shower! Yes a kitty shower! Simone and Tom are taking the leap of adopting three kittens at once. Are they crazy? No they have fallen ...
Zita and Ivan are having a baby!!! Hurrah little Adam is almost here – he will be a Taurus child, strong and hearty. **Flash update: Adorable Adam arrived April 30th with 3850 grams and 56 cms – now that is strong and hearty!!!** He will love the great outdoors and later enjoy a small garden ...
Where do you go to do your introspection? You know, those long drawn-out inner discussions about your life and feelings. Do you go for a walk, a bike ride, play solitaire, or sit in the bath? I usually play solitaire. The repetitiousness of the game the challenge of the patterns, the rhythmic placing of the ...
Oh winter sun there you are!!! You have been hiding for weeks and weeks. Bogging me down with grey, making me weary, with dark thoughts and a muddled mind. Sending me out aimlessly along my days, shuffling and head down instead of looking up and skipping along with a smile. But today you rose ...
I hear you say: The way you like to cook is often….. what?? Here are a few explanations: ex·tem·po·ra·ne·ous Pronunciation: ()ek-stem-p-r-n-s Function: adjective Made up or done on the spur of the moment see also: impromptu - ex·tem·po·ra·ne·ous·ly adverb - ex·tem·po·ra·ne·ous·ness noun a (1) : composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu ...
Hospitality just won’t do – in German one says: Gastfreundschaft – guest friendship – and it is a perfect term to describe weekends, festivities or invitations to the Salzhaus as the welcome guests of Sigrid and Isaac. To quote Homer: “True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.” ...
On June 29th 1880 the French senate passed the law to declare the 14th of July a national holiday to commemorate French Independence Day called Bastille Day. It was named as such because it celebrates the storming of the Bastille, the famous prison, in 1789 during the French Revolution. The taking of the prison marked ...
Lines from the song: That’s what our life is –Jonathan Edwards – 1972 Pictures by yumandmore They said I would shine like the light in the city, I hoped it would be like the moon on the sea. But I don’t let it change all the things I believe in like love and its music ...
I am about to embark on a journey. A journey to myself. A time has come in my life where I have to put everything and others aside and look inside myself to find me. And so my dear readers and my beloved foodie friends, we must also part for 8 weeks. What better way ...
I am going to move soon. Again, for about the 30th time. Honestly. If you include moving Transatlantic for 3 months every summer and returning to a new house, a new apartment, maybe a new city usually a new school, every year for 16 years. I am happy about this move though. It feels like ...