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It’s time to collect some hazelnuts! Our street is seamed by turkish hazel trees. And when the nuts are ready they fall all over the place.

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Chilli, bread, dips – and everyone squeezing onto the seats available. My work mate invited our team over for his birthday.

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Aren’t stereotypes funny some times? I saw these two chicken and immediately thought of two ‘aunties’ sitting together chatting about the good old days.

While watching them pawing for food among the flowers of mid-summer my imagination added old heavy furniture made from dark wood and an old fashioned picture frame on the side board featuring them in their best years. And a cake of course! One of these with tons of sweet cream. It’s always one of these even if no one wants to eat so much sweet cream at 35° Celsius and 70% air humidity. But that’s how stereotypes works, right?

(These chicken are, by the way, living a happy live walking around in the open air museum at Detmold)

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This virtual travel took me and my sketchbook to a remote moon in outer space where a mining company mines minerals while the miners fight the bugs living there. Well, some bugs are actually very nice. And the robots they use for aiding the miners are also adorable.

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A memory of a calm moment sitting by the playground and being proud. This climbing frame was so cool and it offered such a variety of funny and challenging elements. Tall and little ones could spend hours there. And it provided easy access for all those parents whose kids needed a hand here and there.

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Out on a tour with the “Borsigplatz Verführungen”-Team to explore new facets of the downtown north-end district of the city of Dortmund.

We started out by this church and enjoyed an inspiring afternoon. Out our guide wove so many little stories into our walk around the neighbourhood. Don’t worry; I won’t spoil your fun exploring them as you accompany her on her tour. Just let my journal page gives you the hints and let you find out which one I illustrated. (No paid commercial here.)

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Half a year in one page.

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Blossoms! Big fluffy pink blossoms everywhere. Those are lilac, cherry and I think a rhododendron. I took these pictures on our afternoon walks along the urban streets. Well, the last one is actually taken at the cemetery.

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Housing prices has been rising for years now. This article points out how inheriting financial resources is the only way to buy a home in many regions of the country, since even two well paid job are not sufficient enough. On the other side there is the catalogue of a big Swedish furniture department store giving tips to live in “small spaces”. Well one of their small spaces was a four-room apartment, which average people can’t afford anymore. I put those two together because it made me think about how our society takes huge amounts of living spaces for granted.

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“Encouragement is on the way to you”.

I love journaling and drawing ideas and yet sometimes another artist points out a thought so vividly, that I couldn’t have “said” it better by myself. This time it was lainey molnar whose images visualised the things I wanted to say, so I shared them with a friend who needed support.

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Our children had unbelievable hard time during the pandemic. That’s the essence of this newspaper article and personally I think this is so important to remember. The lockdowns (is there actually a plural word for this?) separated them from friends or even the chance to make some: if you were like two years old at 2020, you spent in 2022 literally half of you live separating yourself from others. Two years is incredible long for kids.

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I read the header of this newspaper article and read it again, and while reading it once more the question marks in my mind appeared.

This summer was too humid – yes, I agree to that part – and too warm. No way, what? It was so mild compared to all those heat-record breaking summers we had before.

Yet as so often, the answer was hidden somewhere at the end of the text: Compared to the long-term data. So in averaged of the last one and a half century of summers, this one was a warmer one. Compared to my long-term data consisting of my remembered live, it was pretty nice and comparably chilly.

Isn’t statistic just wonderful? (And newspaper headers.)

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Just wanted to try out this layout for visual structuring.  

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The kids were excited to be there. We visited a horseback riding tournament and watched the showjumping competition.

At our spot in the front row those big strong horses were so close, we could hear them snorting.

They had an ice cream vendor there, with strawberry ice, so we spent the break eating ice cream.

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These are some world-building notes I took.

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This cute little historic toilet caught our attention. Whoever built it took quite some effort to make it look appealing.

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I did this as a real-time practise in Victoria’s class (Instagram: @viktoria_bebildert.eu) and I’m still proud of it.