I’ve always wondered about that single reader from the Vatican who follows Mainz Daily Photo with the email address headhoncho@stpeters.va Turns that Pope Franciscus has been an avid follower for…
The Catholic church gets up my nose on occasion with some of its medieval attitudes. Not my problem, of course. Let the adherents to the faith sort it out. But…
I’ve become accustomed to the affectionate and overly generous gifts of our neighbours across the way, but I’m at a loss to explain the second-hand chocolate easter bunny and the…
…let there be skylights This is what goes for aircon in these parts….
…when the Ingelheim to Oestrich car ferry appears to be registered in Liberia (or is it Panama) Oh. The ticket collector with the good suntan’s from Ghana? So that’s a…
Today being Ascension Day, Chagall’s Archangel whatshisname appears to be heading in the wrong direction. Whatever. Maybe he’s on his way to join us for a beer in Bavaria. His…
If you read these rags, you’ll be exposed to some interesting [sic] “stuff”: To whit: Every celebrity who’s married is having it off with another celebrity. Every celebrity who isn’t…
Appears that some serious proletysing’s been going on recently and quite successfully, it would seem. De-cluttering via the inorganic rubbish collection in the Hindeburgstrasse
Don’t read the papers for a couple of days and you miss some important stuff. New pope being elected, it appears. No idea why they chose Mainz as the venue.…
…it means “at the excavate” Given that it’s part of a display outside the Johanniskirche, I don’t think it’s Portuguese….
There should be a law against this. It’s OK to make wreaths out of grape vine prunings or hydrangea flowers, but taking something as sacred as HOPS and wasting them…
…our daily Fragaria vesca. Aka wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, or fraises des bois. Some plants just TURNED UP unannounced in the flower/herb bed next to the…
Simple elegance at Zum Goldenen Engel in Flonheim But Fred Dagg said it best. Traditional Air
…couldn’t agree more. Oh. “FOLK….” As in folk songs. So that’s OK, then….
…”Let there be light,” and there was light. And the Council saw that the light was good, and the populace saw that the light was good and said “Let’s get…
On more levels than one….
…… and a time to every purpose under the heaven” Too true. Mr Eccles Iastes wrote that, Pete Seeger put the words to music, the Byrds sang it. It’s about…
That’s what my schoolboy Latin tells me is the translation for “Boniface”, shown here giving us the cold shoulder as he gazes over the square in front of the cathedral.…
Didn’t know that Marc Chagall was a drinking man, but why else would he smuggle a serving wench carrying 2 decent sized glasses of ale into one of his windows…
And it came to pass that THE LORD did appear before the HIGH PRIEST of the Melanchthonkirche in the Schlesische Viertel of the City of Mayence and SPAKE unto him…
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