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Cake day: June 24th, 2024

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  • I would recommend starting with the gospels (the first books in the new testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).

    About the feeling of unease, I think it’s natural. I am uneasy when confronted with my own failure. That’s life, a journey with many hurdles to be overcome, many of them my own shortcomings. But I want to be better. So I need to acknowledge my faults.

    This also shows what love means. If I were perfect, it would not be hard to love me. But the people that love me do so despite my failures. So does God. And that makes love truly valuable.

    Letter from Paul to the Romans 5:6-11 NIVUK

    [6] You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. [7] Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. [8] But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [9] Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! [10] For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! [11] Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

    https://bible.com/bible/113/rom.5.6-11.NIVUK




  • Oof, you’d be on the road a lot. Black forest - in the very south west, Neuschwanstein - pretty south east, Berlin - very north east.

    I might suggest going to the black forest, visiting all the historical castles in the Mittelrheintal (middle Rhine valley), and instead of Brandenburg gate maybe Stuttgarter Schloss etc. Neuschwanstein is basically castle-cosplay. I think in the middle Rhine valley you’ll find cooler things and it’s closer .








  • Yeah Pfannkuchen, Eierkuchen, Palatschinken, Plinsen, Flinzen, Crêpe (only on the christmas market) …

    Now please tell me how you call the smaller, thicker “American” pancakes.

    I call them Löffelkuchen (spoon cake) and we make them mostly with berries in the batter (black current or blueberry).


  • There are three weeks in spring - around April - when the trees start sprouting their leaves. And for three weeks the beech leaves have such an incredible light green before they turn darker.

    It’s so fragile, yet so vibrant. The sun shines through the leaves and illuminates them from the inside. It’s a bit milky or hazy but also unbelievably clear and honest. Going through a beech grove during that time feels like I’m in Lothlórien.




  • Back on the old site on one of those text based subreddits there was a question posted:

    Would you rather have free WiFi wherever you go, or any apple product you wish at any time.

    My (then unrotted) brain was like: mmh WiFi everywhere is good, but apple cake, apple pie, apple sauce, apple spritz, apple cider, apple strudel, dried apples… Yeah I’m going with apple products






  • I don’t wanna get into a fight over this, but they do regulate dilution. At least where I’m from.

    It can only be called “juice” if it has got at least x% of juice in it. If it’s made from concentrate, it says so on the front.

    Companies mustn’t lie about the percentage of juice content and all ingredients are listed on the back in order of content.

    In the UK, there’s a sugar tax, so that’s another form of regulation.

    Customers may decide whether they want to buy 25% or 100% juice, but this competition only works because of the rules I listed.