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About erdhummel

Familial entropy - that's an insight into our current life which has been fundamentally changed last summer when our daughter was born. Having studied in Cottbus, Germany, and worked/studied in Edinburgh, Scotland, we momentarily live in a small town in Switzerland where Karsten is trying to save the environment and Freddie is trying to save our sanity. Since there is not much time for elaborate, long emails while doing that, we thought a blog might be a good option to smuggle ourselves into the lifes of our friends.

9:30 pm on our balcony

We not only have permanent sunshine, we can also gaze at the moon right from our balcony! Life is good!        

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diary blogging

It’s the 5th of the month again – time to ask “what are you actually doing the whole day?” (a question that I indeed ask myself every so often…). My day started at around 4am when Karsten entered one of … Continue reading

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continuity

Some things just don’t change, do they?

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memories…

Every now and then, Karsten and I get nostalgic. And when we get nostalgic, we either think of the good old times during our studies (in particular of all our friends and some memorable parties). Or we think of Scotland. … Continue reading

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old botanic garden Zurich

Lots to do this weekend! No, nothing special, just a lot of laundry, baking, cleaning and relaxing, so there’s not much time to write. Therefore, I’ll just post a few pictures from yesterday. We went to the Old Botanic Garden … Continue reading

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permanent sunshine

Days and days of rain? HA! No reason to despair! Because we now got permanent sunshine in our flat! It’s a wedding present by one of my best friends which she made herself (its wood partly covered with leaf gold). … Continue reading

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the goat farm in our lives

A few days ago, we caught up with some friends on some news. We had a nice evening, chatted about this and that, until I asked about the wife’s job. She mentioned she’ll only do the job for a certain … Continue reading

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seven days, seven pictures

Summer holiday is over and it’s time for the weekly review in pictures again! Our week has been relatively quiet and focused on the little one. Baby swimming, singing, visit of the grandmother and a long walk both on Thursday … Continue reading

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tilting windmills

I don’t know why but some of my German genes start kicking in again…Inborn desires regarding tidiness and order are piping up. They are normally a bit suppressed in the Swiss environment due to overstimulation (see here), but somehow the … Continue reading

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May I present….

Often in the media with negative connotations, but this time serving science by recording data of Karsten’s field: eBee! (Yet another proof that scientists do nothing else but playing around with cool toys every day…:-))

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