The next day entailed a full day of apartment painting with Paula. The horror.

Let the battle commence. Drücken die Daumen!

Every week I teach drawing to a lovely German girl (in English). Sometimes she asks me about English grammar. For example - 'Why do you use past simple verb conjugation with this reported or indirect speech?' Oh my goodness I wish we had learnt that properly in school.

Dinner with Gemma, Harriet and special guest Ryan, which happened to be on the first day of Opferfest/Eid al-Adha/Festival of Sacrifice

I helped prepare and consume a delicious communal dinner with fellow people from my community garden (and had to take myself outside for a few minutes of gushing, searing pain)

A positively balmy autumnal day in Berlin

Tea is a good defense against a cold and stormy Saturday night

A German-speaking-only dinner party with my German class friends. Wir haben viel spaß gemacht (und viele Fehler)!

Gah.

Sneaky bike attack IN MY OWN APARTMENT BUILDING. Oh the anger.

Kotti heroin addicts have nothing on Conor

Ja, ja genau! (Um, Conor, what did they just say?)

The pile of omlettes was seriously impressive.

Turns out Peter O'Toole was a total dreamboat, albeit slightly deranged.

Conor once again proved she has UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNTS of going-out pep.

QI is the world's nerdiest panel show, and I love it. Shame.

Another successful and inspiring Enable Berlin night, this time all about mapping!

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http://odc.betahaus.de/

A lovely dinner with Mimsy and Hayden as they stopped off in Berlin on their way back to NZ.

November fängt an... And we had some super soup-making guests!

Unfortunately Paula's team got hammered, but it was fun to watch anyway. Anyone know any good football-related chants auf Deutsch?

Short Round the circus dog was staying with Luke and Kimberlee, and had clearly been practicing his I'm-so-cute-please-feed-me-I'm-starving beseeching look as well as his circus pose.

Freistellungsbescheinigung... just a sample of the extend-a-word horror of German tax language.

Thanks Kirsten for the lovely food and company.

Yellow snow! (leaves, not wee.)