Went to visit my grandmother today, up in the Wood Quarter of Lower Austria. She's quite poorly as of right now - as is my grandfather, but with her it's not just physical health but mental as well. Initially she wouldn't even get out of bed because she was so depressed, but I think us being there cheered her up enough to get up around midday and ( Read more... )

It feels strange to be returning to this journal after all these years ... but there you go. I've started a great number of blogs over the years - on dreamwidth, on blogger and probably on a number of other sites the names of which I can't even remember anymore. But somehow this blog, which I first started at 15, has always remained the one closest ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm gonna out myself as boring now, but ... I just watched PMQs and loooooooooooook:

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I love what Jeremy Corbyn did there, in the beginning, trying to change the culture of PMQs. I hope things are going to change for real. I was most amused by the tiger question though - an MP basically complained about having troubles importing a tiger to ( Read more... )

Hooray! The kitchen is back in business, guys - I repeat, the kitchen is back in business ( Read more... )

Since I wanted to broaden my literary horizon a bit, I recently read Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. To be honest, I didn't love it from the start, since the narrative style and the literary world was quite unfamiliar - it was very hard to get into at first. However, about a quarter into the book I really fell in love with ( Read more... )

So, making myself a cup of tea or coffee is still a bit of a science, since I have to pour the hot water into a glass inch by inch in order to gauge how much more heat the glass can probably take. I've not been wrong so far, and now that I've got milk, I can sort of balance the heat with the lukewarmth (if that's a word) of the milk (since we've ( Read more... )

So, I just put coffee in a glass. In a glass people. And this was in spite of the fact that I know glass can actually break when you pour liquid into it that's too hot ( Read more... )

So, my brother and I finally saw Jurassic World today, after having said that we were going to watch it together almost a month ago ... It was surprisingly okay - bro even confessed to liking it and I have to admit Chris Pratt just looked soooooooooo attractive! I mean, how can anyone resist him:


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Yesterday I went to see the new Asterix film with my brother. First off, my initial reaction: I absolutely loved it :)!
This film was great, honestly! Much, much better than any of the recent Asterix films that have been produced - which especially includes all those live-action ones (I absolutely hated those). First of all, for anyone who would ( Read more... )