{Saturday coffee & online whispers} So, is everything decorated yet? Have you baked cookies and filled the Advent calendar to the brim? As I wrote to a friend, the pre-Christmas madness has definitely begun at home. With everything that goes with it: an almost forgotten parents' evening, quickly cobbled together vanilla crescents and a broken pane of glass in the [...]

{Saturday coffee & webtalk} I'll tell you something (and my colleagues won't be surprised): I have the first Christmas songs playing. Not the full blast (that really only comes in December), but the first Christmas feelings are slowly starting to set in. November is just too cold and too dark for me to [...]