Author: Victoria Hemminghaus Photographs

Managed to leave all the jobs at mine and drive to Cornwall to meet Jo while Lila is at Boardmasters.

Stones nicely lined up with dedication, ready to be laid out.

Taps set into the slate tile in the bathroom

Homemade pickled red onion to go on a delicious salad and matching the flowers.

Kitchen wall completed

Monday morning, end of the night shift.

3rd coat of white on the ceiling

Strolling around Carlsberg byen, spying this wee fella making its way in this world.

Big Bad Boy Bath is IN!

Floating

More steps backwards before going forwards. Some horrid thick textured paint had to come off..and once I’d chiseled it off the plaster underneath came away…But I did decide colours and buy paint…

A replica of a beehive cell with earphones connected to an actual beehive in the back of this construction, so you can go in, put the headphones on and experience what its like to be a bee in a beehive…

Definitely felt like very tiny steps forwards and bigger ones backwards….meant to get stuck into  painting the walls but tapped on this section and ended up having to peel back the paint, knock off the fragile plaster getting back to the original plaster with hair in….

Making a new friend in Munkerup

My fridge had spelled so weird and bad for a while. Selling it I needed to find the source. And I did. A weird grease collecting dish underneath it.

Bicycling to work everyday all year round, it is easy when it’s sunny, but still an achievement.

A little plant manages to grow out of the rocks at Mount Edgecombe

So back in January 2021, the first time, Victoria invited me to join her side by side photoblog, the theme was movement (there is some amazing pairings from that theme, worth having a look at).

On day three, I had a plan on taking a picture in the nearby park of me or others running, but then in the cold dark winters night, I saw under light of some lampposts a group of people doing some really powerful and graceful movements with a long stick in unison, like winter Ninjas. It looked intriguing and I asked if a could take a picture of them for photoblog. 

They said yes and also invited me to join them in the training, so the following weeks I went to the park to train what turned out to be Aikido. 

Now 3 years later, this is a very proud me with my diploma for achieving 3. Kyu in Aikido on june 21st 2024.

It is very ceremonial with a diploma, but love the feeling of achievement when I look at it.

So Thank you Victoria for sending me out on a mission in the world and coming back richer:)

Xx

Sweet peas from my garden

Achievement; carrying the world on your shoulders in Carlsberg byen.
A new town district being built conserving the old historical buildings (and some of the old trees). The guy on the roof; Atlas, has been carrying the world since 1899 and has been in the Carlsberg district since 1972.
He is 3,5 meters high and weighs 300 kg.

Steve’s 50th. Still going strong on the Sunday. And Otto was here and was a total gem. Years of training has worked out 🥰

So today’s picture of achievement is the fruit of hard work all spring and summer.
This spring I planted 2 (very) small blueberry bushes ( and it had to be at least 2, because if you only plant 1, there will be no berries) and then I have made sure to cut back the fern on either side, so that it wouldn’t be overshadowed, also had to fend off killer snails and make sure the deer couldn’t get to them and eat then before me.
And then today 4 perfectly blue blueberries (I dropped one and couldn’t find it).

DJ set and dancing from the mezzanine level where noone was….😉😊

So this is the new roof on our playhouse. An achievement that started last sunday with changing and painting the 2 front wooden beams and complited today with new top sheets and freshly tarred roof.

Made it to Steve’s 50th at Lapwing Farm, Somerset after completing painting all the plastered parts in my kitchen and bathroom

Herslev bryghus have their own fields of corn they use for the beer, so the brewery is surrounded by fields, and the mask that is a by product of beer making, they can use as feed for their own lifestock.
They are locally based and organic and their beer taste great also the non-alcoholic type, they also made a delicious lunch with local vegetables.
So great achievement to focus on biodiversity, organic production and local community and make great beer.

I have under taken A War on Snails and Slugs this summer, collecting them all from my garden and taking them far away (any “War on .. fails as we all know)….This guy arrived outside my bedroom window (upstairs) to taunt me. A pretty incredible achievement!

A genius piece of man made engineering, beautiful to look at and an important part of Danish maritime history.

Somewhere Sauna, Mothecombe. A lovely surprise from Jessie. Cold plunge achievement.

Catching the bird taking a plunge

I achieved organising Jessie to run with Otto, including all the encouragement to get her awake in time to do it before she started working online from mine

Going for a run in between rainshowers

String prepared for my sweet peas

On my way home from a productive first day back at work after summer holiday.
16 years as a nurse and still love my work, or maybe appreciating it even more now; a challenging but very rewarding job.
Always take the stairs up to 15th floor, but take the elevator down.