Can’t say that Mainz doesn’t do a good job with brand management. More city crests than you can shake a stick at….
This Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) chick took a breather on our garden furniture, much to the dismay of Mother who was chirping away and giving child a hurry-along. Not surprising,…
The cluster around one of our fruit and vege stands on the market – we have one for figs, red peppers and the herbs we don’t have in the garden,…
Rocking through Gonsenheim on Sunday afternoon when a gentlemen in white (with a veil, no less…) caught my attention. That and a small crowd. At a safe distance on the…
Local stuff. And cheap – after the long wait, everything’s come onto the market at the same time. Suits me…
…input goes to infinity.” The Second Rule of Project Management. (The first is “Scope, Time and Cost – choose 2 to optimise, you can’t optimise all 3”) 17:00 yesterday afternoon.…
….green. Winter and spring cereals in the fields between Klein-Winternheim and Marienborn
“Uns schickt der Himmel – 72-Stunden-Aktion des BDKJ” is just the coolest idea. The BDKJ [Federation of German Catholic Youth] with its 650,000 members does a lot of good deeds.…
….said the princess “I’ve just lost a crown….”
Cress (Lepidium sativum), aka mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort or poor person’s pepper. Line a flat dish with paper towels, saturate with water, sprinkle cress seeds…
…..I ain’t lion. I am, actually – standing guard over the portal of the eponymous pharmacy on the market
MediaMarkt, a big-box consumer/electronics store, frequently has stunningly effective marketing campaigns, mostly aimed at grabbing market share. The current one: Buy something – anything – and front up at the…
We’re perched up here at 180m ASL and it’s something I’m quite happy about at the moment with the way things are developing down in the flatlands. Guest photog and…
After 2 weeks of abstinence (the Provence is very nice, but you can get really naff coffee. Even if they DO run out and get you pain au chocolat…) so…
Don’t see anything as flash as this in Mainz very often. The outdoor seating area belonging to Gerti’s Saftladen (juice bar – freshly squeezed juices, smoothies and salads) in the…
The Green Party has – on occasion – some fairly good ideas. (Some fairly loopy ones too: Don’t bother fixing potholes, just lower the speed limit….) The city councilor with…
…but at the moment I just seem to run out of thyme time…
There’s an excellent article in the current issue of Intelligent Life about Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones”) – brass plates set into pavements around Germany (and in some other European countries) to…
I just hate throwing (useful) stuff out. You need to clip box hedges to keep them in shape and every clipping with some hardwood on it is a potential box…
Ou homard. Not quite sure. MDP’s on vacation for a couple of weeks and – seeing as how posting from the road is frowned upon – this’ll be it until…
The building that houses the “Löwen Apotheke” (Lion Pharmacy) has been around since 1568 and in this possie (with a brief relocation around the corner in the Schusterstrasse due to…
“Who’s there?” “Lilac” “Lilac who?” “Lilac anything if someone asks your age….”
People in Lederhosen and braces embroidered with Edelweiss on the market the other day. Definitely not locals…
After the prolonged winter, we’ve had a good mix of warmth and rain to get the vegetation going. Asparagus – as rare as hens’ teeth and expensive as anything until…
No need for water diviners around here – just dig down 80 metres, then 1.1 metres to the left and then another 6.6 metres and you’re there…
“Mum said that if I keep sucking my thumb, it’ll disappear. She didn’t say anything about it turning BLUE….”
Is this something like “Plug and play” or have I got things mixed up again. As far as I can work out from the picture, you drive out to one…
…there’s a way. Reusable shopping bags from the ever-excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse. True story: Ms jb’s English is so excellent, because her mother (would have been her…
Spring fever getting you down? Can’t be feeling as faded as these 2, I’m sure. Mind you, you’re not a couple of hundred years old….. Sandstone plaque at St Stephans.
Gudrun Klag is one of the flower ladies on the market in Mainz, selling bulk blossoms but also bound bunches. She has a consistent seasonal theme – Mainzer Frühling in…
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