Mark in Berlin

The Alte fucking Försterei

Weather gods are really smiling on these friendlies!

Excellent amount of booing and rage for a pre-season game too. Missed this place.

#unveu

A cornflower in a green garden patch

Sun's out cornflowers out

A giant babybel

A giant babybel next to a 1 euro coin as proof of size

Shut up and take my money

A vivid, cloudy sunset with a low tower in the foreground

Big sky, Johannisthal edition

Pre-falafel

Falafel

Recently discovered that making falafel at home is super easy, mildly therapeutic and at the end you have delicious falafel.

Footballers battle for the ball in the air

Beautiful way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

Thanks Dee!

Before there was some info also on the Union in Englisch site, but it seems to be down now so thought it was useful to refresh

Getting to Know the Alte Försterei A beginner's guide to the most beautiful place in the world

This probably isn't all that relevant for the Union bubble here, but with football at the Alte Försterei here again, wrote a small guide to the stadium.

I found my first trips tricky to navigate, so might be useful for anyone getting into #fcunion

www.unionberlin.international/blog/alte_fo...

It was a while back but we had a great time in Ksamil in the south!

Took the ferry from Corfu which was also fun

Chaos garden: summer

Chaos garden: spring

My style of planting is called chaos patch.

It involves hurling random plants, bulbs and seeds around and letting the pigeons mix them up a bit.

Join me for more pro gardening tips.

#gardensky

Really enjoyed the video (esp. sock and sandal interlude), thanks!

two people in life jackets are rowing a boat in the water .. ALT: two people in life jackets are rowing a boat in the water ..

Expecting this

A weather forecast with 5 rain drops. No idea what the theoretical maximum is.

New number of weather forecast rain drops just dropped

Nice! It was actually the first time she used it properly too, she realised belatedly that she could see way more dinosaurs with it

A small child on a balance bike looking at a life size T Rex peering out from a box

Checking in on/running away from the Tierpark wildlife

Never fails

Laoganma looking into your soul from the front of a jar

Some delicious spicy tofu

My four step plan (works for any situation or goal):

1. See the frowning lady
2. Buy the jar of things
3. Apply jar contents liberally
4. Profit (from happy tastebuds)

Auf geht's Unioner schiess ein...ok cool thanks

If nothing else there's a low budget horror film called 'Alles Gute zum Gewürztag' in there

There should be one day a year where all flavours are permitted, like the purge but more deadly and for tastebuds

The only Approved Flavour from the Gewürzamt

A delicious roadkill chicken. Reduced by 30% in case you want it.

Shakespeare: "A spatchcock chicken by any other name would taste as sweet"

Germany:

Oh yes I was wearing the same thing, obviously. Didn't want to look out of place.

A toddler in pyjamas walking with a rolling suitcase through an airport

Hand luggage ✅
Pyjamas ✅
Crown ✅

Travel-ready toddler.

The sky train rolls past above a Bangkok street. Skyscrapers and a big, cloudy sky are in the background

This is more or less the last photo I took of Bangkok before we moved out, three years ago this week!

Part of me will always yearn for that chaotic, beautiful city.

Long grass and a path overlooking hills

Rather beautiful at the top of Caerphilly mountain yesterday.

The run up there, rather less beautiful 🥵

A cloudless blue evening sky in Berlin

Google 🤝 Berlin
No clouds

A rain-drenched window looking into a balcony

Berlin summer or Monet painting 🤔?

They are definitely persistent, I swear the same one is on a 30 minute cycle to check if I added more food

My stance on pigeons is a balance of respect, repulsion and fear.