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Dear Eames, I love you.

this neck of the woods — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:28:19 +0000

Welcome home.

Mysterious glow

this neck of the woods — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:25:26 +0000

We had an interesting glow coming from our study for most of today..

And here’s the reason for the glow…

And here’s the result of the glow…

If someone out there reading this happens to be good with light tents – please don’t judge us.. we’re learning as we go :D

Spring has sprung

this neck of the woods — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:18:41 +0000

We went for a walk in the forest yesterday with some friends that were staying with us. It’s beautiful to see the first signs of spring.. I never thought I’d get so excited about a season change, and yet, here I am.. jumping-up-and-down-excited! (Be sure to find the little mouse in the third last photo)

One view, different days

this neck of the woods — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:58:56 +0000

One thing we love about our apartment is that if you lean over our balcony, look to the right and squint a little bit – we have a pretty nice view of Basel. The other day, whilst in the middle of taking a photo of said view, I realised that we’ve actually taken quite a few photos of it over our time here.. so I went hunting. And now I’m sharing. So – here is our Basel view, from the balcony on various days over the last 1.5 years.

slip-casting

this neck of the woods — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:37:01 +0000

One of our on-going projects over the last couple of months has been slip-casting bowls. I think we now have about 6 bowls all made with this process, so we’ll take them off to be fired soon! We probably could have done a lot more bowls in all this time, but we’ve been pretty lazy with the whole thing really.. we keep forgetting about it!

Weekend gone

this neck of the woods — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:35:51 +0000

Pie/Gravy Update

this neck of the woods — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:35:19 +0000

We’ve nearly had the bunnies for a month now (although it feels like longer!) and they’re finally starting to get comfortable in our company. They’re still not very comfortable with each other though.. after what we thought were the beginnings of friendship, they had another huge fight and now we’re back to square one. It’s a little bit frustrating for us because we want to be able to leave them alone with each other and not come back to find chunks of fur missing, and Gravy cowering in a corner!

We’ve also had a couple of rabbit-related casualties over these past few weeks, involving: one half-chewed-through speaker cable (which caused one speaker to stop working properly and had Dave completely perplexed for about an hour), 3 completely severed tomato plant stems (now fighting for life in a vase of water), and one completely-chewed-through speaker cable (yes, the same one – we’ve learned now!). Since then, we’ve also learned that it is very difficult to reprimand a rabbit.. especially ones that look at you the way ours do! Far too adorable.