>“Bloody hell” I thought. “BARRY MANILOW polluting the ethers in Mainz? I thought he was dead” Certainly deserves to be and reason enough to get the next train out of…
> The Markthäuser complex on the Domplatz/Cathedral Square appears to have a big, smelly albatross hanging around its neck. Not only were they comprehensively bowled a couple of times, but…
>But who stole the loaves of bread? Nordsee, a national chain of fishmongers/fish restaurant/pescine fast food outfit, hovering above St Quintins. – Posted using BlogPress
> Your product. Your message. This oversized Whatever was waddling through Mainz the other day, not making a lot of progress, but attracting quite a few inquisitive onlookers. A…
> And this is Spring? Bloody weather…. Schillerstrasse
> There are few more pleasant ways of spending an afternoon than drinking wine and snacking* at the Wagner-Stempel vineyard in Siefersheim. OK, so it’s not free, but his Riesling…
> “So what do you think of the Pfeddersheimer*?” asked Martin Luther a bunch of friends in Wittenburg in 1540.*In this context “So what do you think of this wine…
> That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet The Whitsun rose aka the Benedictine rose aka Paeonia officinalis. (There’s also the tree peony,…
> Moi? Mistreat a horse with my Size 11s? Never. I mean, who would do something like that? That’s what the sign said, anyway. This chappy looked so unhappy,…
> …and carry a big stick push a Zimmer frame. On the market. This’ll be me in a couple of years….
> I reckon that the chances of garlic from China (and they really do sell the stuff here) being organic are about the same as my getting more than 4…
> The extension/conversion to/of the Lampenfabrik shows just how well modern and industrial architecture can coexist. The 2 cone-heads in the foreground appear to agree. They stayed put for days…
> …you’ll need a decent coffee grinder…” As Patrick would say. (What he actually said was “Now that you’re a farmer, John, you’ll need a tractor” which is why I’ve…
> Banana, walnut and blackberry loaf. Just to get things straight before the sexist comments turn up … I was responsible for Borrowing the eggs Letting the bananas go mushy…
> Translates as ” The Market of Utterly Superfluous Tat Beautiful Things” and it runs for the 4 days from Ascension Day in the atrium and adjacent roads of the…
> …could be an appropriate post title for a Sunday, but we’ll have none of that around here, thank you very much. Only organics allowed. Lactuca sativa avanacluia, grown from…
> ..once. 3pm during the week and 10:30am on Saturdays. Surprised that it hasn’t been a) ripped out of its mountings and sold for scrap iron b) painted standard Post…
> Sculpture by Beate Thiesmeyer
> OK, REALLY serious stuff is when you grow your plants from seed, but this is pretty close. Cabbage plants, lettuces, celery as far as the eye can see.
> Is it a “bustle” of bikes? Could be.
> 3 of Christoph and Uschi Niklas’s 7 grandkids – Magdalena, Kalle und Lucie – at Freya’s christening the other week.
> Grape hyacinths in a Frank the Potter pot
> Alles in Ordnung on the market in Mainz. Someone else appears to be responsible for enforcing litter laws, though…
> Or something like that, anyway. Woodruff. Galium odoratum. Around here: Waldmeister or “Master of the woods” Use it VERY sparingly (moderately toxic to the liver and kidneys… hallo?) to…
> Hitchcock’s 1955 classic “To catch a thief” ran under the title “Über den Dächern von Nizza” (“Above the roofs of Nice”) and it sprang immediately to mind when I…
> …ificently magnoliac. Edible petals, Leif. Honest…..
> Doesn’t quite match the glamour of New York’s Apple Store – no glass stair case here – but it’s pretty good all the same. ProStore, just across from the…
> …. something beginning with “R” RucolaRocketRauke (Aragula, too, but that’s only in flasher restaurants and then it costs twice as much. Same thing, though). The producers are holding their…
> At some stage, the littlies at the St Stephan Catholic kindergarten in Gonso were provided with buckets of paint and brushes and instructed to a) not make a mess…
> ….lion Comes from the French “Dent-de-Lyon” – Lions’ Tooth – and if you look at the serrated leaf, you can see why. Around here, it’s called “Löwenzahn” Which is…
> This was just TOO tempting. I couldn’t resist. It’ll doubtless get me blacklisted. An Italian’s studying the plans of his new house with the interior designer. “I wanna a…
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