In our explorations of the different cafes in Austria, we went to Cafe Hawelka one morning! Cafe Hawelka feels very homely, like it hasn’t changed in years, transporting you back in time. It is one of the last great traditional Central European coffee houses, ran by the family that founded it 80 years ago. Over the years, a large number of famous writers and artists have frequented this cafe, so it’s got tons of history in it too.
Hybrid mattresses get described in marketing as “the best of both worlds,” combining foam and springs in some unspecified way. The phrase is correct in spirit but lazy in detail, and it obscures the genuine engineering choices that distinguish well-designed hybrids from poorly designed ones. The category includes products that are excellent and products that are nominally hybrid but functionally close to either a cheap foam mattress or a cheap spring mattress with thin padding. Understanding what the engineering actually involves helps you spot which is which.
In a well-engineered hybrid, the pocketed coil system handles support, motion isolation, airflow, and edge integrity. These are the structural functions that determine how the mattress performs over its lifespan, and they depend on how the coil system is designed and built.
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Working out a proper Cambridge-to-Kent weekend with three under-tens and no car took us about three tries. The first attempt lost a Saturday morning to a missed connection at St Pancras. The second was derailed by a flat iPad outside Faversham. The third went well enough that it is now the family default for a long weekend when no one fancies the M25.
Below is the version that worked. Train times we actually catch, snacks that survive the journey, and the one bit of kit nobody warns you about: how the data signal in your pocket goes from city-fast in London to genuinely patchy by the time you are pulling into Margate.
This month was a very mixed one! We did a little staycation in England and then Dann, finally, after so long of us being together, got to meet my family. I never really thought this was something that was going to be possible, so I am extremely glad we were able to do so. Kai has also made the decision to live with us – something I am very proud of him for doing. During divorces, there is so much going on, but it’s so lovely to see him understand what support is and how someone should be looking after him. Below, I have written about each of my days in the month of April, as a part of Project 365. Some people do theirs weekly, some daily, and other bloggers do their entries monthly like me. You can also see all of their posts at the bottom, if you want to check out some other blogs.
[Ad – Gifted Products] Another Monday of hanging out at our local Geek Retreat has come and gone, with us playing History Heroes: A Little Slice of Animal History card game this time. Previously, we have played History Heroes: A Little Slice of History, which was very similar to this game in design. Instead of the cards having triangles of history, they had triangles of important animals throughout history, which made for a very interesting game.
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