I was “almost done” with the black leopard fur chair covers. The only points twitching at me were the ears sticking out. And I had to take a decision on how to finish up the bottom part. It took me less than half an hour to sew off the four ears, decide to let the…

When the kids were still sitting in their black Tripp Trapps at the table, 17 years ago, I had made some pillows for them to sit on with a very nice butterfly pattern. There was some material left over that I had started making a tote bag out of. Now is the moment to finish…

To do: Update: I found a pillowcase that needed a zipper. Since the sides had already been sewn shut, I had to sew the zipper in while it was open.

My earphones get tangled up all the time. My wireless earphones get lost. Is it worth it to reconstruct this baggy to protect my earphones? What is the magic behind this cool closure system? How was the baggy constructed? Would it be possible to turn the baggy inside out? I think that would be difficult…

Here are some of the very old fixing projects haunting my cupboard: How to spend it, and my time, wisely… How does spending time mending stuff compare with spending time with friends & family or exercising or doing something meaningful? P.S. The term “life energy” comes from the book “Your Money or Your Life” by…

The graph above shocked me. I was aware that we are using much more energy than our grandparents in 1945, but 8 times as much? The graph is for Switzerland but I’m sure the orders of magnitude are the same elsewhere in Europe and North America, and have also risen substantially in the rest of…

I’ve decided to call the room I used as my WFH office from 2012-2025 my “studio” now, to reflect the more creative work, rather than corporate work, I’m focusing on. This provides a guideline to clean up the mouldering old projects in the cupboards in my studio. For example: The bags have been haunting me…

I love looking at maps of the world and imagining travel routes. One possibility that caught my eye decades ago is the “green triangle” around Milan: Since I have been pondering buying the Coros Dura Solar GPS Bike Computer, I thought I’d try to plan out this route using a bike route mapping app. I…

This is what I brought on my last 1300m vertical race: 250ml nalgene bottles of: maltodextrin, electrolytes, chicken soup, maltodextrin, electrolytes, maltodextrin. I drank a little more than half of it. Fuel loading complete How can I bring maltodextrine with me in powder form? Nanobaggies? Add homemade cookies and bacon? Addendum: the 1300m vertical race…