Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year - Snow in Sandymount
Ok, to be honest, it was snowing when I arrived yesterday too, but it was late... So I snatched my camera today to catch the snow...
Christmas Holiday in Munich - December 22nd through 31st
When I arrived, there was still some snow left. So, the very next day we went on a short walk along old paths. As expected, there were quite a few changes...
Christmas presents handed out, mass sung (quite successful this time... oh, and there was a butterfly attending too)... more walks on the next day, this time to the Allianz arena and our little old church.
Normally, our family comes over on the Stephen's Day, but this time it was on Sunday after mass and having sung at church. Food was wonderful, as always, but it took them quite a while to go... Family can be taunting.
On Monday, when everybody else ran into town after 4 days of celebrating, eating and being forced to walk instead of going shopping, Munich went shopping, and some, as we did, went to the museum to view the Mucha exhibition which was really wonderful. Afterwards, we passed the space where once the Süddeutsche Zeitung's building had been. The rest of the day I spent meeting friends and catching up...
Christmas presents handed out, mass sung (quite successful this time... oh, and there was a butterfly attending too)... more walks on the next day, this time to the Allianz arena and our little old church.
Normally, our family comes over on the Stephen's Day, but this time it was on Sunday after mass and having sung at church. Food was wonderful, as always, but it took them quite a while to go... Family can be taunting.
On Monday, when everybody else ran into town after 4 days of celebrating, eating and being forced to walk instead of going shopping, Munich went shopping, and some, as we did, went to the museum to view the Mucha exhibition which was really wonderful. Afterwards, we passed the space where once the Süddeutsche Zeitung's building had been. The rest of the day I spent meeting friends and catching up...
The next day I spent with more catching up and... and hunting books with one bookshop gone and two others with not the books I was looking for. And I also walked by an underground station which had changed a lot: Münchener Freiheit. I do like the style above ground...
Visit from Munich - December 6th 2009
We actually planned to go into the Guiness Brewery, however, we didn't. Instead, we walked to Temple Bar and O'Connell Street to get the girls some "real" fish and chips, before they had to head back to the airport...
Visit from Munich - December 5th 2009
We made a 5 star hotel our base and, after a short night headed for Howth on Saturday to check on the seals and to sea a lighthouse. Although the weather was not brilliant, in fact it was drizzling and very windy and cold, we climbed up the hill and walked until we could see the second lighthouse on the other side of Howth island. Hungry and freezing, we went to a fish restaurant at the pier and enjoyed a wonderful dinner.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sushi weekend - 22 Nov 2009
After having started a new job which I currently enjoy very much, there was no much time and less energy to do something nice the last few weekends. (Not to forget that I was helping out on a shoot last weekend, but whatever...).
This weekend I decided to make some Sushi, finally. After having past a Sushi-training-course it was about time! So, I met with Helen in town and we went shopping the local Asia market to get a rice mat, rice, sea weed and fish... Making the rice correctly is daunting and we didn't do it right, but who cares? Our sushi were very nice and delicious!
Today, I did the rest. Here they are: tuna and salmon sushi with avocado... Hmmmmm!
Monday, October 26, 2009
On mice and men
Well, normally, mice can be regarded as cute, but at the moment they turn up at your house, you feel like screaming and jumping up on chairs. It is that easy.
Fortunately, I wasn't the first to spot our first mouse. I even couldn't get the fear of the girls when they told me they had contacted pest control. (Of course, the guy showed up, set some traps with and without poison and disappeared charging EUR 280! Something we could have done easily ourselves, he only confirmed that we had not to deal with rats, but with mice...). Of course, we couldn't find the mouse later, and the traps didn't work. Then, when Helena came over to visit me, the sitting room was smelling really awfully, and now, several weeks later, we know that the mouse had babies...
Then, days later I was sitting in the living room, enjoying a movie and reading, when I noticed something big running and hiding under the chair, a fat dark-grey mouse. I just packed my stuff and went upstairs, closing the door firmly behind me. There I was, anxious that the mouse shall never go into my room. And freaked out a little myself, now being a testimony!
And then, one morning I spotted a mouse in my room. I left the door open, hoping it would disappear, and couldn't find it later anymore... But then, I found a dead baby-mouse in the hallway, and later on, when I returned tired to my room, there it was... Sitting on MY BED! - I cannot repeat it often enough, sitting on my bed and looking at me, as if to say, well, here I am, it's my room too. I left. We decided to put a box over the mouse, together with a trap. Denise helped me with it! But then, when they were talking about leaving the mouse traped under the box and leaving the room, I intervened. We took the top of my shoe box and put it underneath the plastic box (as if you would pick up a spider from a wall) and carried it outside, popping the baby mouse in the bin. Now, weeks later, I can laugh about it, how we were standing there, sweating and terrified to remove the mouse from my room, but at that time it really was horrible...
Denise bought stronger traps, and we killed two baby mice in our bathroom and another one upstairs. I strongly believe - and I do want to believe it! - that they are now all gone or dead.
Finally, the house is ours again!
Fortunately, I wasn't the first to spot our first mouse. I even couldn't get the fear of the girls when they told me they had contacted pest control. (Of course, the guy showed up, set some traps with and without poison and disappeared charging EUR 280! Something we could have done easily ourselves, he only confirmed that we had not to deal with rats, but with mice...). Of course, we couldn't find the mouse later, and the traps didn't work. Then, when Helena came over to visit me, the sitting room was smelling really awfully, and now, several weeks later, we know that the mouse had babies...
Then, days later I was sitting in the living room, enjoying a movie and reading, when I noticed something big running and hiding under the chair, a fat dark-grey mouse. I just packed my stuff and went upstairs, closing the door firmly behind me. There I was, anxious that the mouse shall never go into my room. And freaked out a little myself, now being a testimony!
And then, one morning I spotted a mouse in my room. I left the door open, hoping it would disappear, and couldn't find it later anymore... But then, I found a dead baby-mouse in the hallway, and later on, when I returned tired to my room, there it was... Sitting on MY BED! - I cannot repeat it often enough, sitting on my bed and looking at me, as if to say, well, here I am, it's my room too. I left. We decided to put a box over the mouse, together with a trap. Denise helped me with it! But then, when they were talking about leaving the mouse traped under the box and leaving the room, I intervened. We took the top of my shoe box and put it underneath the plastic box (as if you would pick up a spider from a wall) and carried it outside, popping the baby mouse in the bin. Now, weeks later, I can laugh about it, how we were standing there, sweating and terrified to remove the mouse from my room, but at that time it really was horrible...
Denise bought stronger traps, and we killed two baby mice in our bathroom and another one upstairs. I strongly believe - and I do want to believe it! - that they are now all gone or dead.
Finally, the house is ours again!
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