Category Archives: Life in general

Reading prison visit

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Cat

Reading prison – famous for once housing Oscar Wilde – has been disused for some years and since then there’s been a constant tug-of-war whether the site should be used culturally, as housing for the homeless, or sold for yet … Continue reading →

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Today I walked 30k steps over 20km!

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Cat

Today I walked 30k steps over 20km and unlocked a fancy new badge on Fitbit. I actually exceeded 25k steps for the first time today, too! I didn’t do any fancy long walks though, ‘just’ a walk of 15k steps … Continue reading →

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The Klüt hill in Hameln

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Cat

Click for full sized image. On Saturday I went up the Klüt hill in Hameln. I had tried to the previous weekend, but a mix of bad weather and it being too late in the day meant I had only … Continue reading →

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Halfway up the Klüt in Hameln!

Posted on January 22, 2017 by Cat

Click here for full-size image. Going up the Klüt has always been a goal of mine, even as a little kid. But I’ve never been much of a walker and there’s no public transport up there so I’ve never been … Continue reading →

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Hamburg HafenCity

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Cat

Last week I went to Hamburg for a day and had an hour to spare during which I went to explore the HafenCity [harbour city], especially as the Elbphilharmonie – the new Hamburg concert hall – recently completed its build. … Continue reading →

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December 2016 Fitbit data

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Cat

In my November stats post I said: For December I would like to have a minimum of 20 days at over 10k steps and also more than 5 15k steps days. That didn’t happen. December was very disappointing. There are … Continue reading →

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Irresponsible newspaper front pages

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Cat

It’s rarely so obvious which newspapers are artificially stoking fears for reasons unknown and which feel they have a duty to report facts and not further their own agenda as yesterday’s German papers following the terrorist attack on a Berlin … Continue reading →

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Cuxhaven Kugelbake cross stitch pattern

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Cat

My grandparents used to go to Cuxhaven – a seaside town in northern Germany at the tip of Lower Saxony – each summer for two weeks. They did this for decades and met a bunch of couples doing a similar … Continue reading →

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November 2016 Fitbit data

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Cat

Well this month didn’t quite go as planned – I started with a very early high [25k steps, 15km on day 1], but got a blister which turned badly very quickly. I won’t go into details, but it’s still not … Continue reading →

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I walked a marathon and then some! [In a week]

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Cat

In the past seven days I have walked 56km. That’s about 84k steps and I’m so far on a seven day streak of at least 10k steps a day. A bit over two months ago I was so unfit that … Continue reading →

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October 2016 Fitbit data

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Cat

This was the first month where I was properly tracking the data as September was the first month where I started getting out of the house and walking again so inevitably everything is looking improved from the previous month! Mind … Continue reading →

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I am a proud citizen of nowhere

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Cat

In the latest of depressing soundbites and words to come out of the Tory conference, Theresa May said this in her speech earlier today: If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. … Continue reading →

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One year anniversary

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Cat

Today is my one year non-smoking anniversary.  That’s a sentence I never thought I’d write as I’d been smoking for longer than I’d care to admit and also never intended to quit. There was no masterplan, I don’t use vapes, … Continue reading →

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Feeding my soul

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Cat

​’Feeding your soul’ is a concept I have come across quite frequently from some lifestyle blogs I used to read but I never gave it any more meaning than ‘treat yourself’. After a tumultuous year, a few days of travelling … Continue reading →

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On getting healthy

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Cat

One of the reasons behind my recent [yet still ongoing] move to Germany is to get really well again. I’ve been ill since the end of 2015 and housebound most of 2016 and haven’t been doing a lot of things … Continue reading →

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The final night

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Cat

With over twenty moves in my lifetime so far including some involving different countries, I have perhaps done more moving than the average person will do in their entire life times. As much as I hate the planning and the … Continue reading →

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1135 days

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Cat

It’s been 1135 days since I’ve last updated this blog which is a very long time! Technically I should be celebrating my ten year anniversary of this blog, but it feels wrong to do so when I’ve had a gap … Continue reading →

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A baby was born

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Cat

It’s pretty much a non-event really though seeing social media explode from comments of a fake Professor Snape account commenting on it being a half-blood prince or a fake Prince Charles account making puns like ‘heir it comes’ alongside pictures … Continue reading →

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