Update A

You know the feeling when a friend asks you how you spent the summer and you want to refer him to your blog - only to look at your blog yourself and realising that you didn't really publish anything... uups.

So, update A as Away.

We've been away :-)

 

And yes, this is A, the largest sailing yacht in the world.
If you look closely, you will see a regular yacht in front of it :-)

I love you too!

Photos not by me, these are screenshots from Youtube.

I was enjoying the whole thing way too much to bother with the phone.

But mostly I curl up inside my typewriter with my housefly and cry
I tell my housefly not to cry
My housefly tells me not to die
Because someone’s gotta sing the stars
And someone’s gotta sing the rain
And someone’s gotta sing the blood
And someone’s gotta sing the pain.
N. Cave

Movie time!

In my previous life (before kids, that is), I went to the cinema at least once a week. At least! I've seen all sorts of films, from blockbusters to the most obscure independent productions. Then the kids came and I couldn't be bothered with other people's problems any more. So in the last few years, I haven't seen many films that weren't cartoons...

So it was something special when I went and saw an "adult" film - A Walk in the Woods.  Katz would be proud by calling it an adult film :-)

It's not a masterpiece. But it is quite enjoyable. Especially since I've read the book and since I've actually walked a few stages of the trail when I was visiting my Dad at Virginia Tech ...

... 22 years ago!

Which brings me to the age of the actors... Robert Redford playing someone aged 44?!? This is a strong and obvious statement: when you're 44 Hollywood sees you as 79.

So I would be played not by, say, Kate Winslet, but by Judi Dench.

Oh well ...

If you can, read the book. It's not the "Wild" sort of book, it's enjoyable and informative and funny. And the writer really understands long distance walking:

"Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark you go to bed and when it is light again you get up, and everything is just in between. It's quite wonderful, really. [...] There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. [...] But most of the time you don't think. No point. Instead you exist in a kind of a mobile zen mode [...] Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breating."

Yes.

32000!

Did you know that Ravensburger makes the largest jigsaw puzzle in the world? No, I do not own it and until I own a huuge house, I won't have the room to make it. But anyway, the puzzle has over 32000 pieces.


All the jigsaw puzzles that I own combined have a bit over 35000 pieces.

When I was younger, my worst fear was that if the burglars came into our house they would search the puzzles for jewelry or money and mix all the pieces together! Now THAT would be an even larger puzzle.

But all of you who solve such large puzzles actually know that the pieces come in separate bags. So technically...

More drooling

I just have to share this with you - the latest German edition of AD:



and the house on the cover... Not to mention the garden in the Provence and the house on Bali that you cannot see. But one day, I swear, I'll have a nook in my house looking just like the one on the cover!

So what I'm doing when I'm not doing something else? Looking into other people's homes (only the ones who make it into AD) and wish I was rich!