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Life is getting increasingly chaotic while Tim works on multiple projects with exploding computers, I learn German and try to build up my application portfolio with you know, pictures of plants and stuff. At some point we’re also meant to …

Until I moved to a foreign country, I didn’t really have a clear understanding of even the most basic of challenges that migrants experience and the loneliness and sense of frustration that can bring. Whether student or refugee, traveller or …

Russian tea tin, originally uploaded by Fighting Tiger.

My friend in Finland, Ninnu had a similar tin that she and her family keeps sugar cubes in. I’ve kept my eye out for something similar for the last couple …

Stolen poppies / Islandmohn, originally uploaded by Fighting Tiger.

I really want a bunch of these, but have not seen them for sale in Linz. So I stole these from a park.

Watching poppies open slowly, forgetting about …

1. I forgot to take my annual birthday photo. Whoops. So 8 days later here’s an extra special pic for my 31st.

2. A friend told me this great joke which involves …

Photo on 2010-06-02 at 11.43, originally uploaded by Fighting Tiger.

Cycling around Kreuzberg can be so distracting – often unwanted (and sometimes usable) objects are left by the side of the road.

I found this clock on the …

Sunny warm days have been hard to find around Berlin (and apparently most of Europe) lately. In fact, when I went to meet with friends at the Turkish Market this afternoon, I felt like I could have comfortably been wearing …

IMGP0003, originally uploaded by Fighting Tiger.

Tim gave me some beautiful woodworking tools for my Christmas present and I finally needed the hacksaw today, not for anything big, but just to cut some timber to make a window …

Buttermilch-Orange, originally uploaded by Fighting Tiger.

You know that feeling when you haven’t really done enough study and you’ve got assignments due, and then your mother and stepfather announce that they’re arriving in Berlin 3 weeks earlier than …

It’s spring in Berlin.

That means a return to amazing icecream, beautiful green budding on the trees, sunshine streaming into my bedroom every morning, early waking as a result of all that sunshine and a feeling of achievement from waking …