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Helle Møller
A new year 2026
Week 4/2026 and 5/2026 – 19 January to 1 February
New bridge club Berlin-Kreuzberg?
Exhibitions to visit
Places to visit, or re-visit, and walks to walk
The annual New Year birdwatching with NABU
Don’t forget about Poland
Note to self: This sounds like a must-try
A bit of sun between snow showers
For my favourite foodies and myself – a list of “fine dining” restaurants to try
The supermoon
First day in the new year
Exhibitions to visit
Photography
Week six in the photography shake-up course
Interior Architecture Photography with Lette Akademie 3 to 5 February
Week three of photography shake-up course
Week two of the photography shake up course
A couple of triptychs, for a change
Abandoned
All creatures great and small
Some photos from the first time I took Mr Fuji out for a walk
Some whacky photos from New Year’s Eve 31 January 2023
Some photos taken from my balcony and in the neighbourhood
Photography: Personal favourites 2022 April
Photography: Personal favourites 2022 December
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 February
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 January
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 June-August
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 March
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 May
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 November
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 October
Photography: Personal Favourites 2022 September
Photography: Personal Favourites 2023 April
Photography: Personal favourites 2023 August
PHOTOGRAPHY: PERSONAL FAVOURITES 2023 DECEMBER
Photography: Personal favourites 2023 February
Photography: Personal favourites 2023 January
Photography: Personal Favourites 2023 July
Photography: Personal Favourites 2023 June
Photography: Personal favourites 2023 March
Photography: Personal Favourites 2023 May
Photography: Personal Favourites 2023 November
Photography: Personal favourites 2023 October
Photography: Personal Favourites 2023 September
Photography: Personal favourites 2024 April
Photography: Personal Favourites 2024 February
Photography: Personal favourites 2024 January
Photography: Personal favourites 2024 June
Photography: Personal Favourites 2024 March
Photography: Personal favourites 2024 May
Photography: Personal favourites from the year 2022
Phototour to “The forbidden city” in Wünsdorf
Phototour to “Verlassene Lungenheilstätte Grabowsee” with Volkshochschule 27 April
Photowalk in Gropiusstadt with InterNations 18 February 2024
Photowalk to Tiergarten and beyond 20 april 2021
Photowalk with VHS “Praktische Tour zur Fotografie: Stadt” 7 December
Photowalk with VHS 24 February
Photowalk with VHS on 6 July
Photo workshop, with a focus on architecture, 4 August
Photobombs in Rostock Zoo May 2019
Photography – series: Battle scars and other scars – literal and metaphorical
Photography – series: Berlin’s green water pumps
Photography – series: Off-the-ground garbage disposal, Berlin style
Photography – series: Smoke
Photography – series: Webs
Photography course assigment: Pace yourself – on a timer
Photography course assignment
Photography course assignment: Emulate cubism in triptychs
Photography course assignment: Isolate and blur
Photography: Personal favourites 2019 and earlier
Photography: Personal favourites 2020
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 April
Photography: Personal favourites 2021 August
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 December
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 February
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 January
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 July
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 June
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 March
Photography: Personal Favourites 2021 May
Photography: Personal favourites 2021 November
Photography: Personal favourites 2021 October
Photography: Personal favourites 2021 September
My current photography courses
My next photography course: New Year Photo Shake Up!
Next photography course assignment: the theme is “Mystery”
Old photos from Aldershvilevej, Bagsværd
Old photos from Fyn
Old photos from holidays in Jutland and on Als
Looking for photos for a course assignment on 3 July
Macro Photography Meetup No 1
Macro Photography Meetup Number 2
Macro Safari Meetup 23 August 2020
Food Photography
Architecture 2019 and earlier
Arty-farty, epic fails and photobombs, 2019 and earlier
Berlin Photo Week – many workshops to choose from – I signed up for two of them
“Adventures in Surrealist Photography”
“Photography Shake-Up” – last zoom course session
A couple of random photos taken from home, and a street photography workshop
A day out devoted to a photography assignment
Animal portraits at Berlin Zoo
Assignment to photograph people in parks looming
Blue supermoon setting
Black & White vs Colour?
Course on diptychs etc continued
Monochrome Photography Course
More “Weiß Fotografieren” from my home
Recent photography course assignment – 1) street art, 2) autumn foliage, and 3) ICM
Strudelmedialive course on diptychs, triptrychs and multiples – and a really bad Volkshochschule course
Series: Berlin’s Subway (U-Bahn) Stations
Cooking and Nutrition
Sunflower seed dip/dressing/sauce
“Vegan burgers” made of leftovers
“White” lamb curry
A mean chili con pulled pork
A quick and tasty spinach snack or side dish
A rare occurrence these years: Friends over for Netflix and Chill ;-)
A slightly different kind of “hummus”
Adzuki bean coconut curry
An adapted version of Masala Vada Curry
An almost-healthy, almost-candy, cake
Asian Cucumber Salad
Asparagus and peas in a mustard sauce
Aubergine and split pea curry
Aubergine in tomato and ginger
Aubergine parmiggiana
Autumnal pie with pumpkin, mushrooms and caramellised onions
Ayurvedic barley and lentil curry
Baked Butternut Squash “Hasselback-Style”
Beetroot jelly with wasabi foam
Beetroot, cheese waffles
Beetroot, quinoa and split lentil patties
Bengali aubergine in a yoghurt sauce
Black lentil dhal
Black-eyed beans in a spicy tomato gravy
Blistered pimento – a quick, healthy and tasty snack
Bottle gourd and chana dal curry
Braised squash with chickpeas and harissa
Bread with pumpkin and seeds
Breakfast
Broccoli and sweet potato bake
Brunch
Buckwheat Bread
Butternut squash and chickpea curry
Cashew nut, carrot and tofu curry
Chestnut potato soup
Chicken and cashew nut curry
Chickpea flour pancakes
Chickpeas with dates and almonds
Chili con carne
Convertible roast leg of lamb
Crispy Honey Sriracha Tofu
Dal Makhani (or as close as I am able to get to it …..)
Dinner in progress – two recipes from Manjula’s kitchen
Easy vegan bread with buckwheat, chickpea and rice flour
Eat more oats: A quick breakfast to-go or just a snack
Fish curry
Flan with new potatoes, green asparagus, peas and spinach
Four kinds of homemade marshmallow – for the children in the family or the child in you
Four-dal recipe
Galette with potato and leek
Gazpacho
Gazpacho for many
Glögg
Hummus
Kadhi Pakora
Kung Pao Cauliflower
Lamb shanks in a spicy yoghurt curry
Lamb shanks with pumpkin and dates
Lazy Thai stir-fry with tofu and broccoli
Lazy-ass Brussels sprouts
Leek and gram flour cake – Inspired by Ottolenghi’s cauliflower cake
Lemon mousse/”citronfromage”
Lentil chili
Lentil/quinoa pancakes with apple/onion chutney
LUNCH!
Malay braised duck in aromatic soy sauce
Marinated tuna with capers and tomato
Masala aubergine
Masala oats
Millet/coconut “porridge” for breakfast
More bread substitutes
Mushrooms are a superfood
Note to self: This sounds like a must-try
Okra yoghurt salad
Paneer and broccoli masala
Parkin cake with celeriac ice cream and caramelized pears
Peanut sauce
Protein- and vegetable-packed fish pie
Protein-rich bread from The Doctor’s Kitchen
Pumpkin and chickpea curry
Pumpkin and goat cheese soufflé
Pumpkin and kidney bean curry
Pumpkin and sweet potatoes that need to be eaten? Make a soup
Pumpkin curry with black-eyed beans and coconut milk
Pumpkin-potato-chili cakes with coriander-mint dip
Pumpkin, oats, nuts Loaf
Quiche lorraine
Rajma Masala – red kidney bean curry
Rhubarb ice cream
Ris à l’amande
Roast leg of lamb with gorgonzola
Roasted garlic soufflé
Savoury pancakes
Seaweed salad
Sichuan soy and chilli roasted aubergines
Slow-roast spiced lamb
Spiced biscottis
Spicy urad dal
Sunday Brunch: Gram (Chickpea flour) waffles
Sweet potato ice cream with date-caramel sauce
Sweet-Potato Oatmeal Muffins
Sweet(ish) breakfast: Mocha porridge
Tadka Dhal
Tart with parsnip, potato, goats’ cheese, and onion
Tasty oven-prepared carrots
Thai salmon curry
This will make a nice change from a chili kick
Three attempts at making cauliflower interesting
Tofu, Peanut and Aubergine Hotpot
Toor dal with spinach
Two types of glutenfree bread with lots of grain, nuts and seeds
White chocolate, cardamom and cashew nut squares
Wild boar with chickpeas and red cabbage
Thoughts and opinions
FOR F…’S SAKE BERLIN
Limitation or liberation?
Where is the sense of proportion?
Time for a word about pub quiz, a.k.a. quiznight or trivia night, behaviour when mistakes are invariably made
The IT paranoia in this country sometimes drives me crazy
Warning: A couple of rants or three
What I have learnt about narcissism in the past few months
The German obsession with phone calls (and lies)
So how is that boycott of US goods and services going?
Misogyny – it is getting more and more rampant – what is going on?
The weekly rant I
More about central heating, Berlin style
I love Berlin but it does have its less attractive quirks
Here we go again ……
Life is weird on all levels
A food-waste and ugliness orgy
Nine November – a day of remembrance in Germany for many reasons
Sorry for sounding like a broken record ….
Lies, lies, lies
Two years cancer free (and boob free but you can’t have everything)
Can anyone explain?
So there are SOME rules in this country ….
“Famous last words ……”
Perhaps we should wish for more wars – not fewer
Berlin is taking insanity and ugliness to the next level
“Sie” or “Du”
And another thing that (I hope) is peculiar to Berlin
Berlin is proud of its wildlife. Or is it?
The German bureaucracy is getting worse, not better
Hibernation, and VHS’s latest insanity
There is something I apparently need to keep repeating …
I love Berlin, BUT :-)
Difficult times to be living in Germany as a non-German
“The age of infantilism”
Do they want us to choose rail over air travel or not? Apparently not
A couple of recommendations of exercises that can be done anywhere
Relief: I must be doing something right
Why is it so complicated to find a reliable cleaning help in Berlin?
There ought to be a law against ….
Not all days go according to plan
Checking the news first thing in the morning is a bad idea
Foobs
What’s up with those shoulders?
I do love meat ….
Energy crisis or just a Hausverwaltung that does not care?
Walk in Spandauer Forst with Empor Berlin 22 July, and a word on the often embarassing voice of priviledge
Pedestrians are unwanted in Berlin
Damn you, Putin
Good to know
Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve
Finally “geboostert”
Really? I am “living in fear”?
Relics from WWII
One more word about anti-vaxers
A way to make friends in the neighbourhood
Aww – a little bit too tall to get through there?
I must have completely misunderstood what a Hausverwaltung should be doing
Leserbrief für Den Tagesspiegel
My very first personal encounter with discrimination, racism and xenophobia in Berlin
Really? Hugging is back?
One of the few things I miss about Denmark ….
Walk in Spandauer Forst with Empor Berlin 22 July, and a word on the often embarassing voice of priviledge
Please stop calling it “Europe’s Migrant Crisis”
Berlin, a good biking city? Nothing could be further from the truth
I understand this country less and less
Pænt goddaaaaaarrrrrrgh
Fresh-smelling laundry minus conventional fabric softener
Smagfuldt eller smagsfuldt
Det er ikke noget, jeg er stolt af ……
Danmark er i sandhed et mærkeligt land
Hvorfor i alverden drikker voksne danskere sodavand …..
Udenlandske hjemløse ….
Ban Ki-Moon and the death penalty
“Copenhagen Zoo just killed four lions”
Botox
Moral er godt, dobbeltmoral er dobbelt så godt
Det ulmende snæversyn og fremmedhad, og de fladpandede fordomme
Vor herre bevares
What is WRONG with Denmark?
Why is it always “the eastern Europeans”?
Det ulmende snæversyn og fremmedhad, og de fladpandede fordomme
Where is the sense of proportion in this country?
Selling
Antique copper kettle for sale
Painting by Jacob Brostrup for sale
Three Paintings by Moritz Schleime for Sale
Painting by Jonas Pihl for sale: “Large Hadron Collider”
Painting by Josef Petersen for sale
Small painting by Lars Mikkes for sale
Georg Jensen Dessert Spoons (“årsskeer”) for sale
Vintage Elmshorn Vase for Sale
Two Holmegaard “Shape” Vases for Sale
Antique map for sale
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A bit of sun between snow showers
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Helle Møller
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10 January 2026
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