Tuesday 20 September 2011

Saturday 17 September 2011

some of Jason's drawings:

We will place them in Jason't Etsy shop over time. So if you would
like to buy one, keep an eye out.. :) Of course there shall be
drawings from Thailand, Cambodia and India, too.. Your collection
could be quite an exciting one..





Thursday 15 September 2011

Monday 12 September 2011

Sunday 11 September 2011

Croxteth Hall / Open Day / Liverpool



Silly us, we forgot to photograph the mansion from the outside.
Here is Jason in the basement pointing along with signs.
And the picture below is upstairs in the long hall.. In the only
moment where the hall wasn't filled with streams of sightseeing
people.


It was nice to get out for a few hours, there are huge parks
around the mansion and we went for a little stroll once we
had seen most of the building. To be honest I am not sure
we are overwhelmingly excited about looking at other people's
faded wealth, and a wealth that was based much on warfare,
loyalties paid to the right people (in this case loyalty to a king
in the 11th century started the family fortunes..) and of course
not to forget colonialism and the slave trade, without which
this house would probably not stand here.

Anyhow... It was nice to be out and smell mothballs and even
better that we snuck in on the one day a year where entrance is
free. The parks are huge, and we only covered a small portion of
the estate, had to get home for some an afternoon nap, some food
and some work.

(J = ideas and dishes, B = dissertation, but actually sidetracking and uploading photos instead)


Jason's theory was that he was like a snake in the tree,
invisible and branch like..... Did that work?


oh and we came across another park on the way home and
just popped out of the car to take a VERY quick look and
pose with the ball. Too much hunger to linger longer.

Friday 9 September 2011

no news

we just haven't updated the blog much because while we are kind of busy, we haven't really done much out of the ordinary that we could photograph or write much about. Birgit is shackled to the desk and laptop most hours: working on her dissertation; and Jason is carrying on being happy, inspiring, yogaing, meditating, climbing and sharing the household love for good food. We eat a lot of lentils and have become experts at cooking them.

That is about as exciting as life gets at the moment...