Sonntag, 23. Februar 2014

Microwave cake

was desperate for chocolate but didn´t have any at home so decided to try the microwave cake recipe with added cocoa.
Not to bad for the minimal effort involved :).
Just a bit too sweet for my taste, guess next time I´ll use half the amount of sugar.
Here´s another link: http://www.vanillakitchen.de/2013/01/schokoladiger-mikrowellenkuchen/


Montag, 17. Februar 2014

reactivating my study after years of use as a junk room feels weird but good

Sonntag, 9. Februar 2014

ribbit

Starting my apiculturist course next week , hurra!

Jame´s Chapman´s site has got a couple of Illustrations of onomatopoetic animal sounds in different languages .
He needs to work on it though, obviously german frogs don´t kwaak, that´s dutch frogs, ours quak! When you cross the border 15 k from here everything suddenly sounds completely different, I guess there´s no interbreeeding between the amphibian populations because of the distinct mating calls. http://chapmangamo.tumblr.com/post/59887645897/how-to-sound-like-a-frog-in-10-languages-poland
I guess polish Żabas don´t really go "kum kum", polish pronouciation is a world of surprises, got to look into that tomorrow.
And just to get everyone completely confused and worried about my mental state, I always use star wars´ jabba the hut as a "donkey-bridge" (mnemonic, english for runaways) to remember the polish word for frog. 
A frog is a frosch is a kikker is a Żaba.
But a rose is a Rose is a róża is a roos.
Oh, all the useful things you learn in a multilingual work environment :).

Don´t you just love love Sesquipedalians ? (my new word for today, liked it better than smart-ass :) )

"Summ, summ, summ, Bienchen summ herum"...

Sonntag, 2. Februar 2014

Sonntag, 5. Januar 2014

Primula 10-packs

Greenhouse with primroses at my workplace
Camera on a tripod, moving the zoom while taking the picture
this is what it looks like for real

Mittwoch, 1. Januar 2014

playing with my macro lens





The moss is my favorite.

Lovely piece on garden photography oin the BBC Website.