About
Before houseplants it was the allotment, and before that sorting old photographs; the habit of writing things down stayed.
Most of what I know about houseplants came from field guides, a neighbour and a lot of trial and error. I am not an expert in houseplants or anything else here; I just write down what I learn most mornings before work.
I grew up on a farm outside town and have been living in Aarhus since 2019. I am happiest on the back step with a jar of odd screws nearby and nothing urgent on the calendar. Small, regular habits like starting earlier in the day and keeping a short list have done more for me than any big resolution. I care about food made from scratch and tools that can be repaired.
A bit of background
Patience is the most useful tool in the drawer, followed closely by a stack of library books and a pile of offcuts. This page started in 2019 as a way to share photos with family, written mostly out by the river, and slowly turned into something other people read. People sometimes ask why I still write things down by hand, and I usually just shrug.
Most of my free time goes into houseplants, the local choir and a growing pile of half-finished projects. If we met at a club night in Aarhus one wet weekend in October, hello again. By day I work at a small printing firm; in the evenings I tinker with houseplants and reading on the train.
I have been interested in houseplants since a friend from the walking group showed me the basics in December 2025. Most of my reading happens at the library in Aarhus, a chapter or two at a time, with a drawer of string and tape close by. A man at the market once told me to ask before you buy, and I still think about it. When I get stuck at a borrowed workbench I go to make tea, and things make more sense afterwards.
I have a soft spot for seed catalogues and school atlases. Weekends are usually split between the occasional bike ride, long walks and whatever is half-finished by the window. Some of the older notes about houseplants are out of date, but I keep them as a record of where it all started. In 2019 I moved to Aarhus, which made letter writing much easier to fit into a week.
Whenever I have a free hour, there is a cup of coffee going cold somewhere in a café near the market square. Some of my favourite things, like a box of spare parts, came from flea markets and were mended at a friend’s place across town. There is no grand plan behind any of this, just writing everything down on rainy weekends. The best ideas tend to arrive in the spare room every few weeks, usually just after I have put the pencil down.
This site
You will not find a tracking script or adverts on this site, only houseplants and the odd detour. A lot of this would not exist without my sister, who patiently answered my questions late in 2021. When I am not busy with houseplants, I am usually out on the bike. Thanks for stopping by; everything here was made cheerfully, mostly in the small room above the stairs.
The winter light in Aarhus makes everything feel more fun than it sounds. For what it is worth, writing things down has saved me from losing a whole weekend at least twice, most recently during the winter of 2020. My Tuesday evenings mostly belong to swimming in the old lido, unless someone at the library needs a hand.
I read Moby-Dick for the first time early in 2022 and still go back to it every couple of months. Every March, on the train into Aarhus, I look back at the year so far and quietly drop whatever is not working.
I try to keep things simple, which mostly means taking photographs at each stage and checking the measurements twice. I keep a list of old bus maps I would like to find, and an old colleague keeps adding to it. Oddly enough, on a good day on the balcony I make progress, and on a bad day I at least learn what not to do. I would rather do one thing stubbornly than five things in a hurry, and years of baking bread on Sundays taught me that.