Tokyo, July 2014

September 14, 2014

It has already been 2 months since Kai and I spent our winter escape holiday in Japan. And yet there’s still no post telling you how awesome it was on this blog. When I woke up today – listening to the rain outside and wondering what I should do with my morning – I suddenly […]

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Keeping chickens

June 29, 2014

Every now and then I get asked questions about my chickens. They’re usually along the lines of: how much work is it to have chickens as pets? What are their personalities like? What do they eat and drink? What should the ideal run look like? We’re not the ultimate chicken experts. I’m just an animal […]

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Renovating a bathroom – a story in 3 chapters (final)

June 29, 2014

Chapter three – it must be all done, right? I drafted this post back in November last year, when our bathroom still wasn’t finished. The plan was to get everything done while we were on holiday, but the series of things going wrong went on while we were away. Today there are still a couple […]

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100 happy days – recap

April 22, 2014

As you know, during the last 100 days I took a photo of something that made me happy every day and posted it on Instagram. Here’s a gallery of all the 100 pictures I took: There are quite a few things I’ve learnt about myself during these 100 days: I’m usually a quite happy person. […]

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Visitors from primary school

April 8, 2014

We’re living at a prime holiday destination, so you might think that we have visitors staying with us all the time. But quite the opposite is the case – it looks like New Zealand is a little bit too far away for most European people to travel. You can also add that a lot of […]

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Happy HuHa hens

March 22, 2014

A couple of weeks ago our beloved chicken Gerda died. She got sick like her sister Petra did a year ago (read Good-bye Petra, hello Ingrid if you don’t remember) and again we knew it would be cruel to keep Ingrid as just one single hen all by herself. To get a new chicken, we […]

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