Some more quotes

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
Karl Krauss.

"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does."
Steuart Henderson Britt 

In case you're wondering where I'm getting these deep quotes from - Inspector Morse :-)

Responsibility

A quote from the second Harry Hole novel, Cockroaches:

"You can't run away from responsibility [...] That's how civilisations crumble."

So, so true.

Strawberry chocolate cake

Today a friend of MiniMojcek Nr.2 celebrated his birthday in the kindergarten. However, he only had ice-cream and no cake! MM2 was so disappointed that I just had to bake a cake myself. Just for us.

A strawberry-vanilla-chocolate cake it was.

 
I didn't have the time to make it pretty nor did I have the time to take a proper photo. But the cake was delicious :-)

Books, books, books.

To relax my mind, I need to read. So I read a lot. Recently I've read

- Jo Nesbø's The Bat: 
not bad, will surely read some more Harry Hole novels.

- Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked:
I bought this book ages ago but hated the cover design so much that I never touched it. Surprisingly enjoyable, actually. And someone even recorded You and Your Perfect Life and uploaded it to Youtube. The Naked version :-) 

- Mike Gayle's Turning Thirty: 
Aah, the good old times :-)

-Mike Gayle's Turning Forty:
Hmmm. Kind of depressing, innit? 

What worries me is that when I was 30 and read the Turning Thirty book, I didn't like it. Now I think it's quite enjoyable to read. Now I'm 40 and reading the Turning Forty book. And I don't really like it. Will I find it enjoyable in ten years' time? Hope not. 

Anyway, the reason why I haven't posted much recently is that I'm preparing yet another book myself. This time it's a book for graduate students. A lot of work. A lot.

Bat and James Bond

I decided to be a bat. Just some black clothes, black wings (I used the fabric that was left from the Harry Potter cloak) and some ears. Simple!

MiniMojcek Nr.1 wanted to be James Bond. Well, who doesn't want to be James Bond, right?

Luckily for me I found a black tie suit and shirt in H&M combined for about 30€ :-) So I only had to make a bow-tie, a holster and a gun. Well, I did the bow-tie and the holster, MrMojcek carved the gun (PPK something) out of wood and then painted it black.

And why do I always run out of black thread on a Saturday night? So everything was sewn with dark-blue, dark-red and dark-green...

Dumbledore costume

One day before the carnival my working table looked like this:

Thirty minutes later, the hat was made, without a pattern, just a slightly distorted ellipse and a rectangle sewn together.

All that I needed to make was the cloak, the beard and the glasses. As I was really rushing, so no time for taking pictures.

The glasses were simply made of a wire, the beard of felt and the wand used to be a wireless antenna :-)

5th of February

Today is the fifth of February.

I have seen a field of blooming snowdrops.

And a field of lilac crocuses.

A cyclist wearing shorts.

And two shops full of Easter Bunnies and Easter eggs.

This is so wrong.

This is actually an older photo. But it looked just like that.