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sonntagskaffee // sunday coffee

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ich liebe diesen moment:

entdecken dass mehr kaffee in der tasse ist

als gedacht.

i love this moment

to find out that there is still more coffee

in the cup than you thought.

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5 cent: The crocodile and the cat

Das Krokodil und die Katze: Das sind unsere neuen "Haus-Tiere". Von  Shabina und Hajar  (7 und 8 ) für uns gezeichnet. Auf den Gehsteig vor unserer Haustür. Die Tiersorte kann man sich selber aussuchen, kosten tut es 5 cent per Stück. 

The Corocodile and the Cat: our new "pets". Our neighbour girls (aged 7 and 8) drew them for us in front of our door. for 5 cent each!!

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Charles Harper

Last year - on vacation in Croatia -  I stumbled across a biology book at a flea market: with some of the best illustrations I had ever seen. Since that time I love the wonderful world by Charles Harper. He is doing the best birds ever.... and a lot more!! Read this article about him at Design Observer. (Click "Play Slideshow" in the article if you want to see some more of his illustrations). 

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Surprise* Surprise*

Short Trip to Vienna! Zum Pol(s)terabend nach Wien.....

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Lapsang, White Monkey and other t´s...

My favourite tea-room in Den Haag: Lapsang. We enjoy Lapsang and White Monkey, and leaf through a photo book about Picasso. Later this day they had a wedding there - what a lovely idea!

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The Highlights of today: Chamomiles and Greetings from Austria

Und hier noch ein paar kurze Zeilen aus dem Poesiealbum, zum Mitnehmen für heute. Viel Vergnügen beim Lesen und natürlich: Geniessen;) ! DAG!

Hab Sonne im Herzen, 

ob´s stürmt oder schneit,

ob der Himmel voll Wolken,

die Erde voll Streit!

Hab Sonne im Herzen,

dann komme, was mag!

das leuchtet voll Licht dir

den dunkelsten Tag!

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Sonntagsausflug: In den Japanischen Garten

Sunday Trip to the Japanese Botanical Garden. What a treasure!!!(Therefore it is just open 6 weeks every year) All those special trees, plants, and stone things as lanterns, little houses, shrines....could have stayed for hours there, wandering around (which we did;)) 

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Le ballon rouge//Der Rote Ballon

In a few hours I will celebrate another of our traditional °Friday Cinema Nights° with my darling. And for this lovely (but cold) mid-june day we chose: °Le voyage du ballon rouge°. Actually the film is having a connection to a special, strange, decennia-old film called °Le ballon rouge° (F, 1956). I am sooooo curious about this new interpretation, already looking forward to sit there in my cinema chair........ and definitly reporting about my experiences tomorrow. All my dears out there: have a wonderful friday night! Talk to you all soon! 

*The photo above is from the 1956 film, I took it from my beloved StadtkinoWien page - brought into life by the two smart brains of  vonautomatisch 

(Meine Verehrung an die Herrn!!!)

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North by Northwest.....

"Miss Strawberry´s Best Medicine" after intense working days: Prepare some tea (best: Kamille/Vanille/Honig), turn on nice lighting and hold a couchmeeting together with A. Hitchcock, C. Grant and friends......mmmmh, thats real relaxation! Good night - and good luck, my dears!* 

*Special thanks to CW for his kind support!

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The highlight of my day.....is a mystery

Visiting an exhibition at the Fotomuseum, The Hague, I came across this photograph: Taken in the 1970ies in former GDR, this little girl is obviously posing on her first school day. I love her dotted dress, the boy-ish hair cut and the small, painted SCHULTÜTE (this cardboard cornet that I and all the other first-graders /TAFELKLASSLER/ got and get for their first big day)... But what thrills me even most is the mysteriousness of it: why is she holding a picture frame into the camera?

(Anworten durchaus erwünscht!!)

By the way: the photos are out of the collection of the Dutch designer, publisher, exhibition maker Willem van Zoetendaal. I like the fact that people like him collect such sort of work..and make it possbile for people like me :) to enjoy those gems!


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