Today I went to the farmer market in Lörrach, across the border in Germany. The market takes place three times a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I regularly go there with my friend on a Saturday morning, enjoy visiting the same farmers and buy fruit and vegetable, occasionally bringing home new plants or fragrant roses. You will also find a lovely …
In the last weeks I have collected my egg boxes instead of shredding them, adding them to my compost or returning them to the farmer for further uses. I will try to grow my chili seedlings in them. The egg compartments should make ideal seed beds, putting two to three seeds in each one. Here is an easy step by …
Today I am in the mood for Thai cooking Did I ever share my recipe for Thai red curry paste? The only advice I’d like to give you: do wear gloves while cutting the chillies! I deseeded and cut about 10 of those beasts and, of course, forgot the gloves. Even Roco, my dog, watches me now from a safe …
A little while ago I wrote a blog post Who Needs Customers? and this is the sequel to it: The Story I ordered perfume from a prestigious perfume maker in Paris in November 2014, they were unable to deliver the goods and promised a refund on my credit card. This never happened. I cancelled my membership for a national marketing …
The Story I am upset, I have three items on my pending stuff list and they all deal with customer service: 1. I ordered perfume from a prestigious perfume maker in Paris in November 2014, they were unable to deliver the goods and promised a refund on my credit card. This never happened. 2. I cancelled my membership for a …
I am the world’s worst packer and my time management sucks. When I was younger this did not worry me at all. I used to work until the last minute, quickly throw something in my suitcase and arrive just before the call “Gates will be soon closed, will passenger YYZ please proceed to gate 13”. Amazing that I only missed …
Every year has its ups and downs. I do not believe in one year ending and rushing to its funeral, I do not believe in welcoming a new year and everything will be different. For years I have been caught up with the year end frenzy of getting things done before midnight on January 31, trying to reach as many …
We are near the end of the white truffle season and tonight we will enjoy this delicacy, maybe for the last time this year. The white gold – white truffles from Alba White truffles (tuber magnatum) are a fungus and can be found in various places but there is only one tuber magnatum pico and that’s the one …
Have you ever forgotten your best friend’s birthday? Do you remember how that feels? Not nice, I bet! Well, I completely forgot that Late Bloomers celebrated its 4th anniversary last Friday. I was so busy with planning and organizing my Open House – which was a complete success by the way – and had I remembered I would have …
Before going away on a holiday in October I received an invite to a new social network called tsu (pronounced: su as in zoo) and I thought „ok, another one, I will check it out sometimes ….“. On my return I found that in the meantime tsu had gained momentum and everybody was speaking and raving about it. …