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Lemon Yellow

There was sun yesterday and now it’s gone again. My hopes for spring were raised, and have to be postponed for the next while.

Despite loving being here in Austria and knowing that there will soon be spring, then summer …

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67/365:2013 - Rhubarb emerging at the Hafengarten

67/365 – 68/365

One of the best things that I’ve done in the last month is join a community garden. I’m hanging out with some new people and I finally get to look after my very own patch of dirt again. There are …

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65/365 – 66/365

Apparently nothing happened on Monday. We drove back from Hallstatt and I know I taught, but it turns out that I didn’t take a photo at all. You know that something’s becoming a habit when you notice its absence.

There …

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63/365:2013 - Hallstatt

63/365:2013 – Hallstatt

I’m lucky enough that Tim’s best friends in Austria live in Hallstatt, a World Heritage town. We regularly visit Hallstatt and each time I’m stunned at what a beautiful place it is. We collected our friends from the airport in …

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62/365:2013 - During winter you can kind of forget that shadows are even possible. Then the sun returns and so does the excitement of seeing your shadow self.

62/365 – Munich (Munchen)

We spent a day in Munich before we met some friends who were flying back via the airport there. Forget about being in an interesting city, the highlight of Sunday was that we walked around in sunshine.

We followed the …

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58/365:2013 - Black radish, celeriac, apples, carrots, pre-cooked beetroot, brocolli sprouts and feldsalat.

58/365 – 61/365

More from the February backlog.

I’m finally working out how to use Black Radishes. I’ll almost be upset to farewell them when the spring deliveries begin to come.

Has anyone done research into the effects of baking on mood? If …

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55/365:2013 - Stage one of the technicolour dream quilt. I've been storing and hoarding these fabrics for years. Now they're finally getting made into a quilt.

51/365 – 57/365

Being home again feels so good. I was welcomed home by the loveliest man in the world who prepared Sauerkraut Strudel for dinner. It sounds horrible, but was actually one of the best things I have ever eaten.

This is …

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42/354:2013 - I rarely went to the north west side of Berlin when I lived there, but my friends moved across town and I get to explore Alt Moabit while I stay with them.

40/365 – 50/365

Even though my blogging fell behind over the last month, I still managed to keep up with a photo a day:

I took a trip up to Berlin to catch up with old friends and to teach a webskills workshop. …

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Photograph of photographer's shadow against interior wall with photos, shelf and other belongings

Catch The Sun

Our flat is not dark, but it only gets limited direct sunlight and at very specific times of the year. Through spring, before the tree in the carpark below us fills out with leaves, the afternoon sun comes directly into …

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Photograph of aqua mini Moleskine day to a page diary and pen on Hmong textile

The Little Blue Book

I intermittently write a paper-based journal across three different notebooks of which one is ostensibly for Morning Pages, another for sketches and general ideas and another where I put teaching reflections. Ideally they’d all be in one book, but then …

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