10 degrees. Summer. Yeah right…
Just across the road from St Stephan’s with the Chagall windows and where I met Monsignor Mayer all that time ago. Excellent prix fixe lunch, nice guests and just up…
Davis Slack is a speech writer, woke (as in: knows history and sees an injustice at 100 yards) as shit, humourist, published author and all-round good guy. He writes daily…
“Those who knew him know what we have lost” wrote Annemarie, Billy Crash’s widow. This strikes home like an arrow to the heart. I first saw Martin – pronounced “Maddean”in…
You can’t see the rest of the insect, which is, of course, its bum. In America, of course, it’s called the Assblebee…
Let’s roll the clock back 10 years. There’s an article in Sensor magazine about a couple of young dudes opening a pop-up espresso bar at the corner of Gaustrasse and…
…sang the Mamas and Papas. Autumn creeps into Mayence
How it started Ursula Groden-Kranich (CDU = centre-centre-centre-right) was Mainz’s directly elected MP for the last 2 legislative sessions of the Bundestag. Place was plastered with her election posters, along…
Scheck-In (no, don’t ask me…) is a local supermarket belong to the Edeka chain, one of the 2 legacy supermarket groups fighting for their lives against the discounter (Aldi, Lidl…
Scratch a German and you’ll likely find a nature lover hidden inside that humourless exoskeleton. Proof of this are the nesting structures for storks they’ve set up all over the…
…the other one. This would be Olaf Scholz, SPD chancellor candidate in the upcoming federal election with a good chance of succeeding Angela Merkel, who could possibly have a chat…
But you should see the *other* guy…
..we all scream for ice-cream. The queue (“line” for the colonials..) at Piccin in NQM Nieder-Olm stretched right around the building last week…
Says Paul Bonna, barista extraordinaire, owner and proprietor of the exquisite Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstarsse and friend (despite my having a good decade on his Mum) for close on a…
“OF COURSE it’s going back…!” Some people are just a bit too choosy. Gridlock at the post office in Klaa-Winnerum
So what do you when the budget doesn’t run to a premium conifer this year? Pile all the baubles into a bowl. Better for the environment anyway… Off to watch…
Actually, it’s a Hippeastrum. From South America. Indoor bulb. Amaryllis (Amarylli?…) hail from South Africa. Outdoor bulb. But they generally run under Amaryliss and you have to fight your way…
…of winter cycling. Somewhere down there is a concrete farm road. Somewhere…
…Mainz in gloom. My mate Houghton – connoisseur, master mariner, nautical historian and surrogate bro-in-law – who lives in Devo(nport), a village suburb of Auckland in New Zealand takes great…
Fine piece of festive artwork from Year 2 first cousin twice removed Thomas of the Hilltop Primary Academy, Tingley. Self-published, no less. Boy’s got a future….
…to Glue Wine. Oh. Glühwein… That‘s how you spell it? Live and learn…
Christmas tree decorations at Paul’s ever excellent Kaffeekommune. That’s it. Seriously…
Bro Paul of Auckland-West fame (and too good a photographer not to resurrect his site) reminded me today that I should by rights be in New Zealand. Thanks for that,…
Other people see a pomegranate aka Punica granatum I reckon a spray can of red paint and a handful of glitter would be just the job. But let me tell…
On the left bank of the Rhine, we have Mainz – cathedral domes and church spires and stuff. On the other side of the river, we have Mainz-Kastel. Which gets…
Mainz Daily Photo 