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23 Jan

Playing the Good Samurai #1786

Knee-deep in snow at the moment and the local sparrows are looking decidedly scrawny after being placed on a zero cal diet for a few days. Went out and bought…
23 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
22 Jan

“Live wire” ……#1785

…is exactly NOT what I’m feeling right now. Norovirus is  practical confirmation of Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion. I’d recommend washing your collective hands and disinfecting your keyboards after reading…
22 January, 2013 at 13:00 2 Comments
21 Jan

Is “fishing”…#1784

…the same as “ice fishing”? A couple more days of this and I might be able to take advantage of the linguistic nuances…
21 January, 2013 at 13:00 Leave a comment
20 Jan

Gotcha #1783

More like ” I got you, babe”. Success story for a dating website while the Minthe crane sits there and mopes, wondering why it’s not at all attractive to the…
20 January, 2013 at 13:00 2 Comments
19 Jan

Graffitigasse #1782

Until last week, that is. Power-washers and sandblasters took care of it. Until next time, that is…
19 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
18 Jan

Bloody woodpeckers…#1781

Either that or pigeons are kamikazi-ing themselves against this building in the Augustinerstrasse Which would suit me fine, if I’m honest
18 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
17 Jan

Firing on all …. #1780

..24 (?) cylinders. Definitely NQM, but my links to Höhr-Grenzhausen couldn’t be described as tenuous. This is the “Kannofen”, a cross-fired salt glaze kiln that lay dormant for 50 years…
17 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
16 Jan

Storking around the market #1779

16 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
15 Jan

A bit ragged… #1778

…around the edges. Old stuff in the Altstadt
15 January, 2013 at 13:00 Leave a comment
14 Jan

What a lot of cobblers #1777

My LA journalist friend asked me whether Mainz’s streets would have been cobbled in the 1930s. The 1930s?! How about….last week?
14 January, 2013 at 13:00 Leave a comment
13 Jan

Tav Tav Kuf Tav Tav Ayin Vav… or… #1776

I’ve been doing some research for a journalist friend in Los Angeles over the past few months and it’s taken me to some interesting places. The depths of ancestry.com, for…
13 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
12 Jan

And talking of rolling stones….1775

When a city’s well over 2000 years old,  you’re likely to find a fair bit of Bryophyta clinging to surfaces. Call it patina…..
12 January, 2013 at 13:00 4 Comments
11 Jan

Knick-knack paddywhack… #1774

…Give the dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. “True love” says the graffiti artist. Here’s a good one: A frog goes into a bank and approaches the…
11 January, 2013 at 13:00 2 Comments
10 Jan

The Bridge….#1773

.. to Nowhere…er… with no name. Things move slowly in Mainz. The imaginatively named “Railway Bridge” turned 150 at the end of last year and they STILL haven’t got around…
10 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
09 Jan

Kaaaft Zuchplakettcher! reloaded #1772

These people just don’t give up! Waiting for Ms jb the other day outside a department store and one of the myriad parade badge touts turns up, positions himself next…
9 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
08 Jan

Gurgle gurgle #1771

Serious stuff in 1988. This one’s waist-height for me. Most (i.e vertically-challenged)people would need to unpack their water-wings…
8 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
07 Jan

Come hell or…. #1770

..high water. You would have got your feet wet (just) back in 1955 and 1963 on the path that follows the Rhine down to Weisenau. Ankle-height
7 January, 2013 at 11:00 1 Comment
06 Jan

And some rape and pillage to go, please…#1769

OK. “Plunder” is the Teutonic equivalent of a Danish pastry. Safe to let your daughters out, then.
6 January, 2013 at 13:00 2 Comments
05 Jan

Skeletal #1768

A winter sky through winter trees
5 January, 2013 at 13:00 2 Comments
04 Jan

Bullseye #1767

Either the centre of the Universe or circling the drain. Take your pick…..
4 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
03 Jan

dɪˈfɛns #1766

If it wasn’t the French, it was the Austrians. Or the Swedes. Or the Germans. This story goes back to the 30 Year War (1618-1648) and before. The Swedes turned…
3 January, 2013 at 13:00 2 Comments
02 Jan

Waiting for….. #1765

…an encore. New Year’s concert in the cathedral yesterday evening, with the brass ensemble and organist playing Bach, Frescobaldi, Grieg et al. Quite excellent. So excellent, in fact, that they…
2 January, 2013 at 13:00 1 Comment
01 Jan

Monthly Theme Day – Photo of the Year 2012 #1764

Seriously, what can beat this? A summer’s day out on the bike and not imagining in my WILDEST DREAMS that Mainz 05, our local team, would end the year at…
1 January, 2013 at 00:01 8 Comments
31 Dec

New Years Resolutions II #1763

You’re not meant to write them down! Pauline at Sonntagskind
31 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
30 Dec

New Years Resolutions #1762

I’m stuck. Gave up smoking years ago, my bmi’s bordering on “underweight” and if you think I’m going to do without the IPA’s from the Maine Brewing Company et al…
30 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
29 Dec

Not being nasty or anything….#1761

…but this is just so typically Mainz. Perennially bankrupt ( Markus Würz, my young historian friend, tells me that it’s been that way since the Middle Ages…) and fairly clueless.…
29 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
28 Dec

I’m going….#1760

..to give them the benefit of the doubt. I’m going to say that their handwriting is worse than mine and that the salami they’re selling on the Christmas market doesn’t…
28 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
27 Dec

This would never happen in Hollywood.. #1759

Well, it never RAINS there, for a start, but even if anyone DARED to step on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they’d have someone out there with…
27 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
26 Dec

Can’t have Christmas…#1758

…without cherubims (just learned – “cherabim” is already the plural) and seraphims… Tastefully Meenzerisch
26 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
25 Dec

It’s early yet…#1757

…the “Nacht” bit comes later. Have a good one. And be NICE to each other….
25 December, 2012 at 09:00 1 Comment
24 Dec

Following yonder star #1756

Simple elegance at Zum Goldenen Engel in Flonheim But Fred Dagg said it best. Traditional Air
24 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment