sleepless nights?

Endless tossing and turning? Restlessness? Anxiety? Muscular fatigue? Mood swings? Hallucinations? Disorientation? Well, it now seems:

So stop being such a wuss, shut up and get over it! :)

Note: T-shirt seen at Coffee Company in Amsterdam.

corner view: best-kept secret

Okay, this is not really a best-kept secret at all, as apparently everyone seems to know perry it's THE summer drink in LDN. However, I've just been there for a couple of days visiting friends and, not knowing it was THE summer drink over there and never having tried it before, I have to say I was more than pleasantly surprised by it.

My friend E introduced me to this sweet nectar upon arrival (pictures taken at their kitchen). Immediately, the next evening, at my friend S's farewell do, I knocked down a couple of seriously scrumptious organic ones.
Normally I am a bit of a bitter lass, so I find it ,quite funny to acquaint myself with this drink while bidding farewell to the lovely bird who introduced me to cider so many years ago. I remember my first night out as a fresher at uni. Being a foreigner and all, I asked S what I should be drinking and she bought me a pint of sweet cider! Oh my word... Bright orange, sickly sweet, sticky vile stuff. Luckily, but not before nursing a pretty bad hangover, I started my quest for a better kind of tipple as well as for better booze experts (sorry pet!). Before long, I started drinking either Broon or Scotch, or whatever was on offer at the Student Union, to be perfectly honest.
I was a poor student. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Either way, pear cider, my friends.
Definitely a sort-of-well-kept-secret-kinda-affair!

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This was my first corner view and I'm aware it's a bit of a crappy secret.
That and that I ramble. I always ramble. Lots.

For more and probably much darker and/or funnier best-kept secrets, please click (below) on the names of all those corner-viewers scattered around the world.

Cheers to Jane, brains behind the idea, hostess and motivator extraordinaire (she had me joining a group, so hey, bottoms up!)

jane, ladybug-zen, ian, bonnie, esti, sophie, cele, modsquad, caitlin, joyce, ani, kim, a day that is dessert, natsumi, epe, kaylovesvintage, trinsch, c.t., jeannette, outi, ritva, francesca, state of bliss, jennifer, dana, denise, cabrizette, bohemia girl, dianna, isabelle, amber, a girl in the yellow shoes, mister e, janis, kari, jgy, skymring, elizabeth, audrey, allison, lise, cate, victoria, crescent moon, erin, otli, ida, caroline, lisa, dorte, kimmie, la lune dans le ciel, nicola, malo, vanessa, britta, april, b, kyndale samantha, karen, kristina, dorit, goldensunfamily, sophie, janet, mcgillicutty, desiree, travelingmama, aimee, sunnymama, amanda, ali, jenell, britta, juanita, pamela, inna, daan, myrtille, cris, ibb, susi, jodi, lily, gillian, athena, pienduzz, latisha, clairette, kelleyn, iris, demara, mus, ninja, guusje, di, sammi

fancy leaving two architects...

...alone with a bottle of whisky for the night.
Look what happened to Barcelona.

Gaudí and Van der Rohe would not be impressed. Or would they?

Note: Muji's Barcelona In A Bag

where is that ninja, indeed?

Off to LDN for a couple of days and this ninja cannot wait.
I shall be saying farewell to a very close friend, staying over and catching up with another lovely one and even meeting a blogger whose stories make me laugh more often than not (and whom I suspect to be rather lovely in person too).
Sad, exciting, fun. Mixed feelings, ahoy. Bollex!

Cut-out London poster from famille summerbelle (minus the silly marks of my base camps for the w-end, that is.)

moon googl(e)ing

How pretty is that?

So, 40 years ago today...

Let's see when we actually "do" make it to Mars (which, according to the astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission, is apparently the way to go!). Oh well, we already know there's water on Mars, right? You can see for yourself here.

Image taken from google logos

raaaaaaaaaaa, la ninja is back!

Well, just about...
Just sorted out my PC.
Basically re-installed Windows.
I know, it's taken me a bit.
But hey, I'm a part-time ninja...

...and, unfortunately, I have proved it by not fully attending to my ninja duties here. I just have to get the t-shirt to make it official!

T-shirt seen @ geekfitters (I know, I know, but I am not a geek, really. I'm an extremely cool part-time ninja, me, honest!)