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Katrin Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
Yes, that would sort of fit that aspect - but you can also go from bits of woods to sticks if you ar...
Bruce Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
I think the closest English equivalent would be 'Down the rabbit hole'. It has one entrance (No, not...
Harma Spring is Coming.
20. Februar 2024
I'm definitely jealous! Mine disapeared except for one pathetic little flower. But the first daffodi...
Gudrun Rallies All Over Germany.
23. Januar 2024
Vielen Dank für den Beitrag. Ja, wir müssen darüber reden, gegen das Vergessen. Zum Glück haben mein...
Anne Decker Aargh.
17. Januar 2024
This is less likely to have an effect on your personal samples as you likely wrap the same way for a...
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It's Pi Day!

It's Pi Day, 3.14, and to my great delight, I've actually realised it before posting here - so you're getting a Pie post today. 

I am quite fond of pies, and sometimes think I should make them way more often, but... well... they do require either some work, or some suitable leftovers. Work as in "making the pie and the filling to go with it", or leftovers that can go into the pie shell with little or no modification, so there's only the dough, and then the baking, to do.

For weekday lunch (which is the thing I'm cooking stuff for), making both the dough and the filling is usually more time than I can fit into the schedule... which leaves leftovers to put into the pie. Sadly, that does not happen too often anymore either. The nicest leftovers (I think) that you can stick into a pie shell is some meat-based dish. Add in, maybe, some leftover potatoes and vegetables, the remainder of the sauce or make some if necessary, and off you go. However, we've reduced the amount of meat-based dishes that we eat over the course of the last years... and there's my problem with having leftovers. 

So, hm, maybe we should have the sweet version more often then, to make up for it - but there's so many nice cakes to bake...

Do you have favourite pie recipes? Sweet or savoury?

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Squirrel!

I'm having the day off after my workshop, so you are getting this photo of one of the squirrels living hereabouts: 

It's sitting on the tree one garden over, having a snack. There's at least three squirrels that we see frequently, and two of them - one red and one greyish-red - seem to be romantically involved... so there's a chance for more squirrels over time! 

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Deutsche Bahn on Strike.

With absolutely impeccable timing, the German Rail is on strike since yesterday and all of today. Fortunately, this was announced a few days beforehand, so I could look into my options to get to my tablet weaving workshop...

With a normal train connection, it's about the same amount of time for me to drive and to take the train. However, train means that I can do something else while travelling (like reading, or knitting), and driving means... driving. So I usually strongly prefer using the train.

Which got me into a conundrum: Brave the strike, take the train (there's still a decent connection I can take which is, according to the schedule, going to run) or go for the "safe" option and drive instead, on roads that are probably a good bit more full than usual, and on a Friday afternoon to boot? So after weighing the pros and cons, I've decided to be adventurous, booked seat reservations for the trains that are supposed to bring me where I want to go, and now I'm off.

Wish me luck! 

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Textile Events!

It looks like it's the time of year for announcements of textile events again! First of all, one for a conference in the UK in June: 

And then, also in the UK, the Early Textiles Study Group offers a practical course. Here's the description, and if you are interested, go to  https://www.earlytextilesstudygroup.org/etsg-courses.html for more!

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Rare Species Found Again!

Some nice news for a change - a very rare species of rodent has been re-discovered: The Bayerische Kurzohrmaus (Bavarian Short-Eared Mouse), a sort of vole that lives mostly underground. Which is the reason why it was not seen for about 60 years after being first discovered.

There's an article with links to a video about it (all German) and some photos here at the Tagesschau page. And I do think that pictures of little critters with truly tiny ears and eyes are a nice thing for a Friday afternoon!

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Hieroglyphs.

We're living in the age of automated translation, and it's actually getting where, in some cases, it's possible to work with the outcome. Mind you, proper translations made by human beings who are fluent in both the source and the target language will always be a lot better, but at least things are not always complete gobbledigook anymore.

How is that topic popping up here, you ask? Well, because of some going-s-off-on-a-tangent. (In German, by the way, I'd say "vom Hölzchen auf's Stöckchen kommen", which literally is to get to a small piece of wood from a stick. There's no translation that really catches this in English - it's when you start with something and then have another topic and then another. Kind of like when you want to look something up in an encyclopaedia and accidentally read another entry first, or afterwards, and there's a cross-reference to something else, so of course you read that too, and then on the way to the next one something else catches your eye...)

So - I was wondering about translating stuff into hieroglyphs, and did an internet search and found that most "translators" only do a phonetic transcription, which sort of defeats the purpose. But it turns out that there is a sort-of translator by Google, called Fabricius. the amount of words on there is, unfortunately, limited, but it's still sort of fun. There's also this helpful list of dictionaries where you can look up things - and more or less make your own translations. 

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Monday!

...and because that day sort of ran away from me, and it's suddenly evening... here's an unmotivated cat picture for you: 

I hope you had a good start into the week!

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