I did, the sticky ones for the IKEA glass bowls. Instead of using plastic Tupperware, you can now use environmentally sane glass containers with Bamboo lids. I designed the labels.
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The Mind Sweeper
Another day, another night. I am bored of this. I am bored of my joyful albeit brief interactions with my oh so lovely neighbours, of my shallow and oh so entertaining work colleagues, of my oh so fabulous self. Be gone! Change! Do different!
Continue reading “The Mind Sweeper”When I met Darren on the train to Manchester
It was a rainy and cold November day.
Not much going on in my own life, I was happily convinced to start a conversation with the bloke sitting across from me in the aisle seat of coach E.
Continue reading “When I met Darren on the train to Manchester”A Genie in a (chopped) Tomato Tin
I really don’t know any more how it happened. We were sitting in the car and suddenly there was this bright light and some unbearable noise.
I had rubbed some dirt off a chopped tomato tin from our grocery shopping at Aldi and all of a sudden this impeccably dressed guy in a 1930s cocktail tuxedo outfit was sitting next to me in the car.
Continue reading “A Genie in a (chopped) Tomato Tin”A Love Story ❤️
My eyes firmly fixated on the buildings around me, I am usually walking through London ready to discover this fascinating city’s quirks along the way. On one of those days, I ended up in Primrose Hill, in a 1920s villa housing a cultural temple for English Folk Dance.
Continue reading “A Love Story ❤️”Who is Octavia Hill?
When volunteering at an Octavia foundation charity shop in London’s Kentish Town, I stumbled across the name giver of this organisation: Octavia Hill.
Octavia was living in 19th century London. She was a prominent figure in the fight against land developers who were as early as the 1830s planning to build townhouses and villas on London’s famous green lung “Hampstead Heath”. Yes, the Hampstead Heath. This amazingly vast forest so close to the city.
Continue reading “Who is Octavia Hill?”A weird rekindled love story
After being away for three months, I have returned to my flat in central London. I had expected things to be a bit more dramatic, one of a kind to experience how it would feel to come back after such an extraordinary life-and-society-interrupting event as Covid-19. We are trained through media exposure, aren’t we?
Yet, all seems rather ordinary here in Kentish Town. This impression is only true when first arriving.
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I have left Berlin. It wasn’t an easy decision. But it was the right thing to do considering the dire circumstances. I had envisaged my stay in Berlin so very differently and it started all so well.
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Bye bye Garden Bridge, hello Camden Highline!
Anyone remembering the high flying idea of the Garden Bridge over the Thames? For all non-Londoners: It was a private proposal for a pedestrian bridge over the Thames in London, the attraction was mainly designed as an uber-green play space across the river between Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges. Awesome!
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