Crosswords

My mom used to solve crosswords. I remember that we bought newspaper almost every day and she read them almost completely, but Wednesdays and Saturdays were special days for her. Those were the crossword days.

Time to time I solve, or tried to, a crossword who come with the Sunday newspaper, but it’s a mixture between easy and silly. Some weeks ago I found a huge crossword on Saturday which made me remember old times. I couldn’t resist the temptation and started to solve it. After finish I asked again my dad to put it the office because there is a contests with prizes and extra money is always welcome.

Nowadays I’m solving one divided in 3 pieces. Yesterday I got the second one and when I get the final piece next Saturday I’ll put them together, solve it and participate in a new contest.

Coin album

Collecting things is a good hobby. I tried first with stamps, but as I don’t have too much friends by mail and the rise of e-mails, my hobby didn’t prosper. Then I got another one: collecting coins. 

My first ones I got by chance, but then I got into it more seriously. At the moment my only source of coins are travels, for that reason I have coins from the countries I visited or some close friends gave me.

One big issue was finding a coin album. Finally I bought this one in Heidelberg, it’s for collecting Euros but works perfectly with other countries. For each country has 8 pockets for coins and one for a little label with country flag. I already designed some labels for the non-Euro countries that I have and I’ll ask some friends to help me to complete the countries. Maybe some day I will start to collect notes too.