Ever since I have posted the last time, I suffered from a summer cold, crashed and totaled our Ford Fiesta and had a kidney infection. Great. Just great. BUT! We had blue skies and temps in the high 30's (Celsius not Fahrenheit). Harvesting from our garden has been ... difficult to say the least. Snails, torrential rains and marauding ducks and
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Getting or having a cold usually sucks big time, but having a cold in summer sucks SUPERBIG time. Especially as no one can really say it is summer ... okay, so the calendar says it is July but it's about 18°C. It was supposed to be warm and sunny but it is rainy and cold ... and my nose is runny and my sinuses act up
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Apparently, Germans and Americans have the same kind of taste in television, esp. where British humour is concerned: Benny Hill, Mr. Bean, Spitting Images ... all loved by Germs and Americans alike. If you want real black British humour why not airing Black Adder? Red Dwarf? Dawn and French? Anything? Because it's too British and while the
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For about a week we had no new snow and slowly the sun is getting warmer and warmer over the day. Our poor garden has taking a severe beating during that long winter and the lawn resembles more of a mud hole than a meadow with grass and flowers :s But our little zoo is out and about and enjoying the sun :)
Additionally, with the freezing temperatures still having us in its heavy grip I started to play The Sims 3 again and while I am putting the finishing touches to my Japanese world Iwo Shiro (based on Martine's Arkham) I
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