http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily ~ a long way to go ~ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:26:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Krakow, Poland   Prepare at least three days before needed! Preferably make a huge portion and leave it sitting on your balcony all winter long. 1kg fresh white cabbage, shredded finely 1t salt    Place in a heavy pot with water to cover and bring to the boil    Cook uncovered over a medium heat for about ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/best-ever-bigos-or-i-never-cooked-with-vodka-before-and-also-an-addendum-about-pickles-just-for-the-fun-of-it.html Krakow, Poland We peered in through the fogged up windows. Yes! There were a few little tables with wooden chairs, yes there were coathooks on the wall, yes, there was the tiled hatch to put dirty dishes through, but more importantly, yes, everyone was eating pierogi. It was just as we remembered. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/u-stasi.html Krakow, Poland “We should take a picture for Grandpa!” ”And one of the sticker too” ”I know! Why don’t you put it on your ear?!” It all started in Mongolia. We stayed in gers, and gers are not renowned for having very high doorways. Even though he cognitively knew this, poor ol’ Grandpa would ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/its-surprising-he-came-with-us-at-all.html Krakow, Poland Look how nippy it was this morning: And last night it was –11*C in Brasov, where we are soon headed, so everyone is hoping the forecast snow will be a biggie! Anyway, I digress, before I even begin. Boys need their daddies. Where did that come from? We have a boy (not the youngest ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/boys-need-daddies.html Krakow, Poland There’s an object lesson in today’s expedition. A Scripture or two to reflect on. But we haven’t yet. We were too busy writing a story. Jgirl15 came up with the outline and then frantically scribbled the main ideas and some sample sentences onto paper. Together we fleshed it out. CLANG ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/if-salt-loses-its-saltiness.html Krakow, Poland “When we get back” conversations emerge occasionally now, and on one particular occasion turned to chores. I was most excited to discover that my workforce has now reached such proportions that I find myself almost entirely in a supervisory role. I’ll have a three-year-old ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/cookin-up-a-storm-in-a-teacup.html Krakow, Poland To be Polish is almost certainly to be Catholic. To be Catholic means, among other things, following church traditions and one that happens every year on the first of November is honouring the deceased. We took a chilly walk this morning and noticed that, despite it being Sunday, all the busses ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/all-saints-day.html Krakow, Poland From ulica Batorego we used to walk to the Stary Kleparz (the old market you’ve seen in previous posts). This time we are staying virtually at the market and we walked back to Batorego, home to the second flat we lived in.   Due to the installation of domofones, we were ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/31-down-nostalgia-lane.html Krakow, Poland Kazimierz, now a district of Krakow, used to be a separate entity, a region self-governed by the Jews, who were sent there for the first time in 1495. For hundreds of years it remained a Jewish enclave – right through to World War II when the word ghetto became ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/30-jews-lived-here.html Krakow, Poland Well, my dear boy, speak for yourself! YOU may have done nothing, but someone went to the market this morning to buy our food for the day. So I could write about the things I saw, the conversations I had (people are so friendly and now that we’ve been here ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/what-do-you-write-about-on-a-day-like-today-when-we-did-nothing-mum-asked-kboy12.html