November 2024

christmas is coming

I had decided I would wait with a Christmassy post at least until middle of December, but finding myself unexpectedly in Tenjin, the center of Fukuoka, one day last week – well what can I say, there were simply too many Santas to avoid showing a photo of them. Next to Naka river, in front […]

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crash

Suddenly the other day, my computer just decided to stop working, entering an endless loop of reboots that turned out to be caused by a “fatal error”, whatever that might mean. Even though I have mostly been using photos taken with my phone for this blog, writing a blog on a phone is not so

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saturday morning

Every weekday I put the alarm at 7.15 to have time to do all the morning preparations in a not-so-stressful pace before going to the kindergarten bus with our son. (Although sometimes I treat myself to a little snooze if I managed to prepare his clothes and bags the night before.) On Saturdays however, we

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halloween

Halloween was not over until the Christmas decorations started to pop up in stores and windows. My son was very happy when he saw the first Christmas tree of the season on the counter of a cake shop in the local shopping mall and started to talk about putting up decorations at home as well.

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