turn them off!
Linked to the On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Turn off Annoying Alerts.

The tech is in the bike itself, in the cell phone on the handlebar, in the power bank in front of the handlebar, in my bluetooth earbuds – and I use all of it for transport!
Linked to On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Let your tech transport you.

If you know where the place in the title is, you understand the picture and the relation it bears to a password.
I would never use it as it is far too easy for nerds (I’ve just tested it). But it did make me smile.
Linked to On the Hund for Joy Challenge: Perfect your password.


next to your bed? I’d feel like I was in hospital…
Linked to the On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Put flowers next to your bed.



Drink envy or just a healthy interest?
Linked to the On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Remember to hydrate.

This year isn’t really the year for field trips but last year I had three weekends in the town of Böblingen, just south of Stuttgart, for a training program. I got up early (against my nature) and took photos around the hotel and the two town lakes.

The school and hotel was in the old part of town, amongst the pubs and restaurants and clubs.




Böblingen has an upper and lower lake which got a make-over for the national botanical show in 1996.




The walks around the lakes are dotted with sculpture pieces – which kind of spilled over in town.




It was early spring, so not too many flowers yet – but the people of the town were obviously expecting a rich harvest.




Linked to On the Hunt for Joy: Take a field trip.

I detest household chores like cleaning of any kind. To get me to do them I listen to audio books while doing them. Let me tell you, my bathroom has never been so clean than after an attack of Les Miserables (all 57 hours of them).
Linked to the On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Brighten up dull chores.
