Monthly Archives: January 2013
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National attitudes to snow
Leave a commentJanuary 19, 2013 by anelim
On 17 January, on a Lufthansa flight to Birmingham, I left a warm Berlin. A comfortable -3’C, a splatter of …
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Mensa food
1January 17, 2013 by anelim
Mensa food isn’t bad at all;-) This whole pile cost me less than €2.50 (student prices are a few cents …
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Ink
Leave a commentJanuary 16, 2013 by anelim
Some plans take decades to accomplish. I should have got this date stamp back in 1994, when I first started …
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Write! Your! Book!
Leave a commentJanuary 15, 2013 by anelim
This random U-bahn advert sums up my motto for the next few months. I’ve printed this off and stuck it …
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Mango (and morello cherry) cake
2January 14, 2013 by anelim
I have recently discovered that cake is an excellent mode of procrastination. The yellow cake I made last night turned out …
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A night of yellow things
Leave a commentJanuary 13, 2013 by anelim
Keeping the heating on is good. My fingers aren’t frozen and I can work at home. Let’s see what this …
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The Slumber Bridge
Leave a commentJanuary 12, 2013 by anelim
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Banking
Leave a commentJanuary 11, 2013 by anelim
German banking has baffled me for a while now. Mostly this is my own fault for putting off opening a …
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Berlin Polaroids
Leave a commentJanuary 10, 2013 by anelim
Check out this collection of photos by Maurice Weiss called “Berlin Polaroids”. Aren’t they enchantingly timeless?
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Schumann at the Kammermusiksaal
Leave a commentJanuary 9, 2013 by anelim
Last night there was an absolutely superb concert at the Kammermusiksaal in Berlin. András Schiff on the piano and Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass …
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Back to my third home (with hedgehogs)
Leave a commentJanuary 8, 2013 by anelim
As I get off the airport bus, I see the TV tower at Alexanderplatz lost somewhere high above, in the …
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n days in Berlin 