Room with a view…

By popular demand, here’s the view from our future apartment over the roof of the house opposite… While it’s not exactly the Swiss Alps, compared with the street we currently live in (The truck in this picture is about one metre from our living room window) it’s a major step up, so we’re happy. You [...]

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Why I won’t use DCC.

One of the joys of working for a non-profit is that you have to do everything. For example, look after the web site, I have to update the files now and again, which is generally a disaster.
This morning I was about to write a witty and amusing post about something or other on my work [...]

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What happened to the weekend?

Well, I was working for a lot of it, which meant there was almost no time to work on Westerooge. However, there are compensations, like this artwork created by one of the teenagers I work with, for a project focusing on abuse and forgiveness…

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1:1 Modelmaking

There’s been another long break between posts: modelmaking has been focused on making props for the next major production of our youth theatre company. I took a picture of the (almost) finished result in the workshops before I came home from work last night…

The whole story has a strong steampunk flavour, and this is the [...]

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Kehrwoche

In this region of Germany everyone is obliged to keep the pavement clean outside of his or her house, so every Saturday we all go out in the afternoon and sweep. My eldest son’s kindergarten asked me to keep their section of pavement clean and look after the garden, and shift the snow in winter. [...]

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Still here…

I’m still around and doing what I can with the model, which isn’t a lot as work has been very heavy of late. There was no letup even this weekend, although that means that I’m able to get a couple of half days in lieu, so hopefully there will be a bit more action in [...]

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