Author: Kris

  • You all seemed to really like my cost of living post, so let’s dive into something equally as mundane – German groceries and supermarkets! If you follow me at all here or on social media, you know that the Snook and I enjoy cooking and make a lot of things from scratch. Back in Australia,…

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  • Grünwald

    Thanks to the crappy weather in the past few weeks, I’m falling behind on my 2021 cycling challenge. Today looked like a promising day for a ride though, so I somehow talked the Snook into joining me for a trip south along the Isar. We rode on the right bank of the Isar on the…

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  • Lanatus and Orkney

    I realised recently that, while I’ve been having a lot of fun streaming my knitting on Twitch, I’ve been pretty lax at actually documenting it on Ravelry and the blog. I’ve completed two big projects since I’ve been in Germany, but unless you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you probably haven’t seen them. Lanatus…

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  • Happy Birthday to Me

    My 44th birthday has come and gone. 🎂 Normally we like to go out to a fancy restaurant, but with everything still closed due to Covid, that wasn’t happening. Instead the Snook ordered us a four-course takeaway meal from Mural Restaurant, a local Michelin-starred place, which he then assembled according to the instructions. We also…

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  • Now that Spring is on the way — and we’re still in lockdown — I’ve decided that I need a goal to motivate me to get out and about. I’ve really been enjoying riding my bike (now that I’m in a city with decent cycling infrastructure), so let’s make it public: I’d like to cycle…

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  • Lockdown Thoughts

    We’ve been in lockdown since December. Everything’s closed. So much for doing something every weekend, huh? There’s nowhere to go. We could rent a car and drive somewhere, but there’s no restaurants or hotels or museums or shops and it’s winter so the weather is crappy and we’re not really outdoorsy people anyway. I haven’t…

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  • The Snook Talks Coffee

    I’ve been promising for a while now to get the Snook to write a blog post about his new coffee machine, and I also recently realised that I left coffee out of my cost of living post. So rather than continue to nag him (he hates writing), I decided the easiest thing to do would…

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  • Uses This

    Three years ago, I got an invitation from Daniel Bogan inviting me to be interviewed for his site Uses This. This is a site where various nerdy people (lots of Aussies, but also international folks) answer some questions about the tools they use for their work and their hobbies. Unfortunately I got waylaid by life…

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  • Thinking.

    Spent ten minutes debating with the Snook today whether we should go back to low-carb eating… and then I read this Twitter thread, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. https://twitter.com/TheRotund/status/1346181272620716032

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  • I noticed the other day that a few of the craft technique videos I put on YouTube as a lark have started attracting lots of views, so there’s clearly an appetite for “how to” content. With that in mind, I’m going to try to make a few more this year. I recorded the first one…

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