Lindner out, Scholz next?

German Chancellor, Scholz, made a good speech today.  All in German which I cannot understand completely of course but it was a moving speech nevertheless. I wrote “moving” because it made me stay on the chair trying to understand everything when I mostly have a talent of not listening to anything Germanish. Germany is heading…

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Cheesecake

In celebration of Mann’s coming of age, we have this cheesecake from Dr. Oetker Käsekuchen. Instructions are all there but I still messed it up because I forgot to add an egg. Imagine if I made the whole thing from scratch. That would be a disaster. So I pat myself on the back for remembering…

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a VW Crisis

So if you did not hear the news yet, Volkswagen is planning to shut down 3 factories, about tens of thousands heads will roll and pay cuts to those who managed to keep their heads. The good old days of Germany is at its end and economy along with its population is in decline. The…

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Carving the Pumpkin

First time we are doing a halloween pumpkin. I figured our smallest boy can now handle sharp object without spilling blood so it is time. Mann bought the tools and I bought the pumpkin. I thought pumpkins would cost me 10€ each because it was huge but it came out 3€ something only. I will…

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