Weekly overview

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to find a good time to catch up with a primary school friend of mine – Sascha.  Monday it finally worked out!  In the afternoon I headed over to his new place – he’s currently in the process of remodelling a house he bought last year.  It’s a pretty impressive project – 3 stories completely gutted and being re-done. I look forward to seeing the final result!

After the tour we headed to his parents place for some pizza and chats about our childhood.  It was really interesting catching up with his parents too.  Unfortunately I failed to take pictures…. Again!  You’d think I’d learn…

On Tuesday I helped out Manja a bit by doing some renovating at her place – red wall is now blueish gray.

After

Wednesday I was invited to Noras birthday party at the “Schwarzes Cafe”.  It’s quite an old joint, which somehow reminds me of the sort of place my Aunt may have visited?  @Sigrid – maybe see if she remembers it at all?  Could be completely wrong, but the place has an anarchist/alternative feel and opened a short time before she emigrated, apparently quite popular at the time.

Thursday the weather turned and it was POURING with rain for the day… Only one thing to do: Update the blogs again finally! I sat myself down in a local cafe and wrote.  I also planned next weeks trip a bit!

Updating my blog at Father Carpenter (A local cafe)

Yummy Currants will be jamified!

Friday I had a haircut, and Manja and I dropped by Ilkas to feed the garden and water the cats… or something like that.  Ilka had kindly left us some fresh redcurrant to turn into Jam.  Yum!!

I’m fiiiine…

We also put up the hammock for a bit…. and I managed to STACK it getting out of the hammock, smashing my wrist against the brick floor.  After what I thought was a reasonable time of me grimacing and rolling on the floor, I inspected the damage only to find it “a little bruised but fine”.  Phew! A broken wrist would have put a dampener on my motorbike plans real quick. Manja was a little worried so insisted that I put an ice-pack on it, which I conceded to doing as soon as I finished putting up the hammock properly….  Which apparently took too long, so I was ordered to “lay down and stop moving” until further notice.  What can I say? I’m an impatient patient. Luckily nothing was broken, but I probably did sprain it slightly.  She was probably right to be a bit concerned.

Manja and I had made plans to cook at her place tonight, so we eventually headed back to do so. On the motorbike I noticed that my wrist really did hurt…  But I was able to move it normally.

Back at Manjas I was ordered to take it easy with my wrist, and we made a DELICIOUS veggie burger with crispy potato wedges, all from scratch.  I really enjoyed cooking together with someone again – it’s nice to exchange ideas and improvements and chat the night away! We enjoyed our dinner with a nice white wine moving out onto the balcony to chat the night away.