Being a Christian is not all that easy sometimes. We have one lady who comes to our church, let’s call her Jane. Jane is in a wheelchair with a badly deformed foot, she carries all her worldly goods on her wheelchair in bags hanging all over it. The bags cause the wheelchair to drain the…
Today I came home from the office with tension in the shoulders, having spent at least 4 hours trying to reconcile some figures and then discovering that the reason I was out by about 2 Million was because the base report had duplicated several rows of data. Without them, it balanced. But I have no…
Here are a few random outtakes from recent conversations that made me smile. ” I used to eat Digestive biscuits, because I thought they were the healthy choice, but then I saw how many calories are in one. Now I just eat biscuits with chocolate on” ” I have been meaning to get a book…
It has been a mixed month. According to my step counter I have managed 173,890 steps this month, which sounds a lot, 5796 on average per day, and an equivalent of 124 km. Unfortunately, considering it was active April, the steps were way lower than in March, but that said, March was helped by the…
I did not have a motto for March, but definitely need one for April. I went on the scales last Sunday, when we were at the sauna. 2 more kilos, a steady increasing over time, when it is supposed to be going the other way. I was horrified. So now, it is fertig lustig as…
I wrote this post almost a year ago, and now I will finally publish it. Anyone who knows me will know that I love interior projects. At work we had a big one, that kept me busy for months. Our building was in two parts, one part all new and finished in 2019, the other…
Can I choose more than one that I wish I had? If I could have a secret ability, number 1 would be the ability to heal. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? To be able to heal by touch or even thought would be a wonderful gift, that would have to remain secret actually, otherwise the whole…
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I was born on a Thursday
This was one of those good weekends. I should have been visiting a friend in Zurich and going to a comedy show, but he is ill with the flu, so we cancelled. You would think therefore that my weekend was not good, but as I had planned to go there, and now I couldn’t, I…
Dear younger me, life is going to be good, you will do way better than you can imagine, but here are some tips:
It is pretty easy, as a European, to unintentionally break the law in the US; for example drinking alcohol outside in New York – apparently that is a crime, as several people were quick to tell me when I tried it once. How about trying to get into the US without a visa? Yep, I…
What a great prompt today, one I cannot let go by without attempting some sort of response. I love interiors, and my long term readers will know that I even did an Interior design course when i lived in Germany. But I can only dream of beautiful interiors, as my day job is still doing…
Last year we made the decision at work to stop the contract with the cleaning company that we had been using for 20 years, and employ our own people instead. As you might imagine, the cleaning company were horrified, and there were dark murmurings about “foreigners”, meaning me, who don’t understand how Swiss do business.…
A friend gave me some bags of books the other day for our Church sale, and there were a couple of women and home magazines in among them. English Magazine are like gold over here, so even if they are 18 months out of date, it doesn’t matter. I have just been looking at an…
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