A colleague of mine found this overview online and posted it to me. I knew that a lot of people in the US had German roots. But that many? I am wondering, though, in which category they put Swedish here. Wondering if they mixed it with German? There were a lot of Swedish emigrants to the United States as well. However, they are not listed separately like i.e. the Norwegian and Finnish.
Therefore I wonder if one should trust these stats as much as the News…
This year we celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, and especially the UK has many related events going on throughout the year.
Today’s Google-doodle for marking the event is definitely pretty and therefore worth saving.
Google even takes the opportunity and markets their free eBooks of Dickens, check them out here.
Hope you have at least as much fun as Rudolph! 
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This year was a tomato year. Out of 20 seeds I got 17 (!) plants. I started sowing them on the 6th of February, only 3 days later, 2 plants were showing their heads… And it continued in this pace, until all 17 were out within less than 3 weeks. They were first occupying the window board, and then later, when having been replanted an entire room, which we then called our little greenhouse. We had to close the door, because otherwise the smell of soil would have floated through the entire flat.
9 plants moved to a good home and made friends and family happy, 8 of them stayed on our balcony. Our plants had a hard time, they almost died of drought in June while we were away for week… Amazing that we still got a really decent amount of fruit!
Anyway, this is their story in pictures. By now they are probably compost. Tomatoes R.I.P.
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Last weekend I went to visit my best friend who now lives in Berlin. On Saturday we went to the Christmas Market at Berlin Charlottenburg. A proper Christmas Market with lots of stalls of local handicraft, something that I didn’t enjoy for quite some years! Proper Glühwein (mulled wine) and fresh waffles with hot cherries included .
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