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‘The Siege of Acre’ by Dominique Papety, c. 1840....

First and most imporantly: I love you all!

Secondly, a very warm welcome to my blog to picsofhistory, thesinglemomceo, houseofzoldyck and devotedlyshyperson!

Special welcome to brienneisawesome, who was a wonderful secret santa! So happy to have you on board too!

Third, and last point, I wanted to give a really brief explanation why my blog is getting updates so incredibly (and for me personally extremely furstratingly) irregular updates.

Short explanation - Life has got me very tightly in it's claws.

Long explanation - Life is very busy and exciting and quite a bit exhausting. I was out of country with no wifi (and no roaming, thank you every much, just simply too expensive), which explains my absence between Christmas and beginning of this week. Another thing is that I'm working full time, go to school half a day per week and got mid-terms coming up. The exciting part is certainly the planning of my next couple of trips (I need visa to get to two of the places, so yeah... you need looots of paperwork), as well as a major change in my life in the more forseeable future. If you've been following my blog for a little longer you may have seen the posts about wedding planning, and know that things are about to get really serious - I'll be trying on dresses this month!

So yeah, between all that there is also the mandatory family-time to be spent with my parents, time for coffee with friends, archery training, ... You get the idea.