The view from my balcony. Never gets old ❄️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCYt0pnKt6/?igshid=12g71dd3jps8r
On the first day of my new job as a PhD student at Leiden I’ve decided to wear the red velvet jacket that I always wear on the first day of a new venture. Even though I’m starting my work from Heidelberg and won’t make it to The Netherlands for some weeks at least. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwC4cXl2Gt/?igshid=1b74ly67v28yo
Pangur and Gecem, keeping an eye on the birds and the cars and the insects outside, to make sure everything is in order. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFosVG6qQ3k/?igshid=15ydrtcjvyhuc
Impressions of Italy 2020 - Part II: The butts of the Doge’s Palace, Venice. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEjC0fJqjFO/?igshid=1mtiqtrdpe0tm
Impressions of Italy 2020 - Part I: The spoopy skulls and skellingtons of the Basilica di sant’Antonio di Padova https://www.instagram.com/p/CEbW0H_KoDU/?igshid=n0baais2gmg7
Something my sister and I found the other day: our great grandfather’s wedding shirt from 1924/25! The flax was grown by his wife’s family, she spun it into thread, he weaved it into cloth and she sewed and embroidered the shirt. A beautiful collaboration to start their lives together. And... er... turns out it really fits me. Really well, especially around the shoulders. So... apparently I have the physique of a Polish/Ukranian peasant from a century ago... that’s good to know... https://www.instagram.com/p/CD8emIqK-3p/?igshid=l8128zmdtonh
Monday mood 😴 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDstsSAqGVH/?igshid=1l314dyz8tmsw
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary ‘tashes https://www.instagram.com/p/CAw4NfrqGua/?igshid=biso2fcm3a5v
Some of the green parrots that live in Heidelberg chose the chestnut tree in front of my house as a resting place today 🦜 https://www.instagram.com/p/B9r8XSQqNUA/?igshid=1l11seg2c4xs5
I’m about to give my first ever paper at a conference, so here’s a PrePresentationPanicSelfie 😱 (at Unipark Nonntal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B83J5piIN4j/?igshid=10u0dhnhgab80
Went to see the Königskinder exhibition on Frederick V, Elizabeth Stuart and their children one last time on its last day. Here I am looking of a melancholy temperament, along with the melancholy monarch himself. https://www.instagram.com/p/B8pA2abI1h8/?igshid=1q72q26uovjom
A guest on a river cruise tour kindly took these action shots of me being enthralled by a big barrel! https://www.instagram.com/p/B3RJxHLog66/?igshid=1oka5dne20a2z
One of my favourite things about Heidelberg is the way fog lingers in the Neckar valley, obscuring the outlines of the hills, conjuring its own slopes and peaks. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2yCbfwCIFy/?igshid=18p677762d0v8
I had a great 30th with some very great people! Thank to everyone who made the day as enjoyable as it was. Here’s to the portentous, menacing road of a new decade! https://www.instagram.com/p/B2bvkROCyg4/?igshid=c26bxocaea17
Another day at the office... (at Schloss Heidelberg) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byj6yRSi7Fi/?igshid=nwgqnsneqcy5
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As cat owners we like to joke about how the cat is the one who’s really in charge, but let’s be honest here: my cats think they’re in charge, but they’re also fucking dumbasses. It’s sort of an incompetent-king-and-long-suffering-advisor arrangement, if the king were prone to getting their head stuck in Kleenex boxes.
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Me, disentangling my cat’s claw from the blankets for the third time:
Heidelberg in the mist (at Heidelberg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwOfc9tHmoz/?igshid=g4hnstk2rpld