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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.

Cheer-up-strategy

Posted on 3. March 2014 by erdhummel

Some days seem like they could just be crossed off the calendar. Bad night, monday morning, dull weather, screwed up lunch, a constantly complaining baby…In order to make this day work, I used a long afternoon nap of the little … Continue reading →

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Smooth persuasion

Posted on 2. March 2014 by erdhummel

The funny thing about a blog: on some days, there is absolutely nothing happening whereas on other days, you have so many ideas what you should write about that you can’t decide which one to take. I could write another … Continue reading →

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Grey, grey, grey

Posted on 28. February 2014 by erdhummel

As you might have noticed in my last entries, I am becoming a bit frustrated with the weather in Turku. This is not how Finnish winter is supposed to be. When we arrived, we had freezing temperatures, sunshine, ice crystals … Continue reading →

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Ha ha

Posted on 28. February 2014 by erdhummel

  And for the record: the two days of bright blue sky and sunshine didn’t happen…it is as grey and miserable as it has been for the last month.

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Subjective perceptions…

Posted on 25. February 2014 by erdhummel

This evening when Karsten came home from work, I was busy doing three things at the same time: cooking, doing the dishes and putting away the clean ones. Karsten lay down to relax a bit. I complained that, in the … Continue reading →

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Naantali (without sunshine)

Posted on 25. February 2014 by erdhummel

Yesterday, the weather forecast promised a little (little, little) bit of sunshine today. So a friend of us invited me for a walk along the seaside at Naantali, about 15 km away from Turku, since we are all a bit … Continue reading →

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Seven days – seven pictures

Posted on 23. February 2014 by erdhummel

Again, I am joining Frische Brise with her weekly retrospect in pictures. Our week has been rather quiet since the baby activities are on pause due to the ski holidays. Also, the weather has been really shitty (excuse the language) … Continue reading →

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The not so restful restroom

Posted on 21. February 2014 by erdhummel

Toilets are, in most Western societies, places of privacy, of tranquility, a way to shut out the world for a few minutes and let the mind wander. Or, if you are a proud owner of a smartphone, to cultivatedly check … Continue reading →

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Snow White on a sawblade

Posted on 19. February 2014 by erdhummel

It’s the week of Finnish ski-holidays (not that the weather is appropriate for ski-holidays, but I guess further north you might actually have a chance to do some winter sports). So there are no baby classes taking place and since … Continue reading →

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What’s that? Sunshine? Really?

Posted on 18. February 2014 by erdhummel

You know that there have been far too many grey and rainy days if… ….your daughter bursts into cries of joy seeing the sun is shining through the window …and you start taking pictures of random motives in your neighbourhood … Continue reading →

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