> This is how the iPhone spat it out. Honest. Now, I have it on very good authority that these are some form of cumulus (cumuli?). Probably Cumulus humilis, but…
> The Red Shoes (fairy tale), by Hans Christian Andersen The Red Shoes (1948 film), by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, one of the BFI’s Top 10 British films The…
> Cyclically speaking, that is…
> Rolling it out at the Mainz State Museum.
> NQM. Who cares? Birgit Reis runs an excellent flower shop – “Pusteblume” – in Diedesfeld, which is a mere hop,skip and about 100km down the autobahn away from here.…
> Joceline Dimbleby calls them “Better-than-ever Chocolate Brownies” Not much to add to that. Platter by Jane Hamlyn Raspberries by jb Recipe here
> Mrs jb’s childhood girlfriend of mumblemumble years is down for the weekend, so we rocked over to Schloß Sörgenloch for dinner last night. Don’t think they lit up the…
> Definitely not Shanghaied in Shanghai. Only took 3 years, 2 months, 19 days, 20 hours and 33 minutes. This is Bat (aka Bettina) of 50 Grad fame who lives/d…
> Littlie captured @ 1/800 f3.5 300mm @ the Villa Musica concerts
> Frank the Potter celebrated his 50th the other night at Thomas Barthelmeh‘s with an acoustic band called Mother of Pearl (the singer’s a jeweller…). Really good, but when they…
> …and then there are blackberry muffins. Blackberry muffins look quite normal on the outside. So do blackberry muffins. It’s when you open them up and find that they consist…
> Kalle Stöckle used to be a carpentry teacher at a trade school. In his spare time, he bought old pine furniture, did it up in his garage and sold…
> I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I piss through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot…
> It’s that time of year again. Axel Schmitt’s legendary Summer Festival in (NQM) Ober-Hilbersheim. Read all about it here
> “…and chocolate.” “And chocolate” That would be my mate Christoph at the icecream parlour in (NQM) Heidesheim. No idea how he discovered the place – it’s certainly not particularly…
> I can’t help it. I can’t waste food, I can’t throw away seedlings that I can make grow into plants for someone to use and I can’t watch fruit…
> Something frighteningly prehistoric/Jurassic Park about this image. The Wirges House was built in 1946 and was a Listed Building as a “significant example of post-war architecture” until the other…
> …if you’re a shopkeeper in the atrium of the Markthäuser on the cathedral square in Mainz. And no, this is NOT Amsterdam….
> …as Steven Tyler would say. Classic wrought-iron handrail leading up the steps from the Eisgrub brewery to the (free…I like “free”) on-street parking in the Eisgrubweg. Well worn by…
> Art deco lamps at the Villa Musica, one of a group of 3 villas (villae?…) built in 1913 and gifted to the Villa Musica Foundation in 1988.
> Doesn’t get more hard-core Mainz than this. The Jakobsbergstrasse at the end of the Augustinerstrasse is the home to Weinhaus zum Bacchus and Weinhaus Michel. Michel is the classic…
> …stands for échalote. Or expensive bloody onions. This lot will put you back €6 a kilo. Worth it though….
> Not the worst time of year. Raspberries, redcurants, blackcurrants and blueberries on the market at the moment. Thank goodness the strawberry season’s finished. I can go back to bananas…
> Not sure who was having more fun – us at Caffea Moguntia or these 2 having a glass of wine on the market the other day. Thinks: Them, probably…)
> There are 3 4 ways of making Grüner Sosse, the salsa verde Buy it at the delicatessen (Not really…) Grow and make it yourself (Obviously) Buy the herbs nicely…
> Competition time! All entries on a $100 bill, please. Hint: coriander seeds
> Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Eric, for the correct spelling of “colour”….. Trivial Pursuit claims that the colour combination with the highest contrast (apart from black and white)…
> Schloss Sörgenloch used to be the manor house of the eponymous village, a hop, skip and 20 minutes on the bike from here. And there’s not a lot that…
> Roland Rother is the coolest mechanic I know. It’s just that he’s not very well organised. He’s got as far as returning calls on the answerphone, but he still…
…all over again” said Yogi Berra, a baseball player and manager* I KNEW I’d seen it before and it then struck me that FishandChips had published it and we’d determined…
> I was lucky enough to get an electron microscope for my birthday the other week. Only weighs 3 tonnes and they have to throw some more uranium rods on…
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