> You say “tomayto” “mailbox”, we say “tomahto” “letterbox” OK, so technically it’s a typecase, but if you can put letters in it and it’s a box, then it’s a…
> Terminal giddiness at the Spring Fair on the banks of the Rhine.
> I’d noticed the mobile cell transmitters (pumping out electro-smog and giving us all instant brain tumours) on the top of this chimney in the Martinsstrasse, but it took a…
> Now THIS is a good story… When you drive down the mile-long hill into Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire in spring, you’ll be stunned by the mass planting of daffodils…
> Stunning sunset at the University Clinic
> …is good enough for me. The Wild Goose house (aka as the “Golden Goose”) in Kirschgarten in the old part of town has saved me from considerable expense and…
> Tagged along with Mrs jb yesterday to the Augustinerkirche (St Augustine’s) in the – yes – Augustinerstrasse. Riotously decorated with angels, cherubims and seraphims perched on ledges all around…
> ..appears to have crept in and laid these without my noticing. Not too sure about the kryptonite colour, though…. Elsewhere
> …your Gutenberg tour here. World Book Day. Appropriate then that the faithful should pay homage to the boy hisself.
> “Now this certainly looks familiar…I wonder where I’ve seen it…?” Bronze model of Mainz Cathedral on the Liebfrauenplatz.
> Mainz Hauptbahnhof (They missed it…)
> …or weeks. This is the way you do it. Buy plugs of salad plants when they’re this big (cost €0.15 an each), put them in a planter with home-made…
> Rampant Easterisms on display at Caffee Moguntia. (The roastery in Bodenheim, not the TSOW that is..) I couldn’t resist and bought their entire stock…..
> I like tulips, but not THAT much…..
> …Tiffany’s Nelly’s. This place is a treat. Good Turkish mocca, good café au lait (if you order a double shot…), excellent menemen (a first for me), nice mix of…
> Charles Knie’s Big Top on the horizon in Hechtsheim. Image signed in the foreground by an errant moped on a farm track “Wild Billy’s Circus Story” spring[steen]s to mind
> There are the Wagnerian Brünnhilde and Sieglinde (now adopted as the name of a strain of spud) and Siegmund (Victory Mouth) and Siegfried (Victory Peace). Urmgard is one you’ll…
> Now that all the nucular (oops, we don’t have to say that any more now that the Idiot Bush is no longer President) nuclear power stations are being…
> “But I could buy a NEW one for that money” she stammered. €198 for getting a bike that hadn’t been ridden for 7 years up to scratch doesn’t sound…
This is a good story. Elements of revolution and conspiracies, provincialism and politics, neglect and vandalism, war and peace, fire and water. And two lovely people. Yesterday, I had coffee…
If things work out, I’m meeting Karl-Heinz Krause and his wife Ursula at precisely….NOW… to learn the history, concept and technique of the 4 bronze gates of the Gutenberg…
> …in the Römerwall park. The Kinks have something definitive on that, too. The tax man’s taken all my doughAnd left me in my stately homeLazing on a sunny afternoon…
> …..comes around. It’s asparagus time again. A bit early for me – I’ll wait until the unforced stuff comes on the market and then we’ll pick it up…
> It’s no wonder that Nimmerland (the German translation of J.M. Barrie’s “Neverneverland” from “Peter Pan”), an independent bookshop for kiddies in Gonsenheim is thriving. And it’s no wonder that…
> Someone appears to have mistaken Uschi Niklas for a thespian (I have no idea why – she’s married with 3 kids – true story at the end of this…
> Am I ever glad that Annette Ludwig has taken over as Director of the Gutenberg Museum! Talk about a breath of fresh air!Talk about innovation!Talk about getting information published…
> Impoverished? Depressed? Wife spent all your money on clothes? Can’t scrape €1000 together for a Nikon AF G DX 10,5/2,8? Thinking of giving it all away ?WAIT!DON’T DESPAIR! HELP…
> “At least it’s not boring!!!” “Too true” comments someone. And then of course there’s Pete Townshend
> “I bet it’s those sodding PIGEONS again. Pick up the chewing gum from the pavement, chew it for a while and just leave it lying around up here.…
> “I’m the winner!” “No I’m the winner!” This sort of thing happens with monotonous regularity in Mainz. State elections on Sunday and these two went head to head in…
> …’edges. Working in the UK in the early 1970s introduced me to Estuary English with its wide variates of h-dropping and h-adding, not to mention the fricatives and affricates…
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