>The Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung – one of the better quality broadsheets on the market and the only decent Sunday newspaper – runs an appeal at around this time of year which is quite cool.

Make a donation to the worthy cause that they support and they’ll publish a photo of your newly born babe.

The penultimate issue of 2007 (and I think I’m allowed to write about, because it gets dropped on our doorstep at stupid o’clock with clockwork-like regularity, despite its not strictly being a Mainz paper) had a whole section of kiddies, ranging from delightful to only-a-mother-could-love-it.

This little flossy caught my eye and she going to be a bit like Johnny Cash’s “A boy named Sue”, I fear.

There’s a cult band from the region called the Rodgau Monotones with a cult hit based on the dreaded situation when you bump into someone on the street with whom you have absolutely NOTHING in common and have to make polite conversation, while at the same time trying to get away as quickly as you can.

In dialect

This little flossy’s name is Anna Luisa Guder.

And what are the kids going to torment her with?

Right!

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