> That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet The Whitsun rose aka the Benedictine rose aka Paeonia officinalis. (There’s also the tree peony,…
> Moi? Mistreat a horse with my Size 11s? Never. I mean, who would do something like that? That’s what the sign said, anyway. This chappy looked so unhappy,…
> …and carry a big stick push a Zimmer frame. On the market. This’ll be me in a couple of years….
> I reckon that the chances of garlic from China (and they really do sell the stuff here) being organic are about the same as my getting more than 4…
> The extension/conversion to/of the Lampenfabrik shows just how well modern and industrial architecture can coexist. The 2 cone-heads in the foreground appear to agree. They stayed put for days…
> Banana, walnut and blackberry loaf. Just to get things straight before the sexist comments turn up … I was responsible for Borrowing the eggs Letting the bananas go mushy…
> Translates as ” The Market of Utterly Superfluous Tat Beautiful Things” and it runs for the 4 days from Ascension Day in the atrium and adjacent roads of the…
> …could be an appropriate post title for a Sunday, but we’ll have none of that around here, thank you very much. Only organics allowed. Lactuca sativa avanacluia, grown from…
> OK, REALLY serious stuff is when you grow your plants from seed, but this is pretty close. Cabbage plants, lettuces, celery as far as the eye can see.
> Is it a “bustle” of bikes? Could be.
> Grape hyacinths in a Frank the Potter pot
> Alles in Ordnung on the market in Mainz. Someone else appears to be responsible for enforcing litter laws, though…
> Hitchcock’s 1955 classic “To catch a thief” ran under the title “Über den Dächern von Nizza” (“Above the roofs of Nice”) and it sprang immediately to mind when I…
> …ificently magnoliac. Edible petals, Leif. Honest…..
> Doesn’t quite match the glamour of New York’s Apple Store – no glass stair case here – but it’s pretty good all the same. ProStore, just across from the…
> …. something beginning with “R” RucolaRocketRauke (Aragula, too, but that’s only in flasher restaurants and then it costs twice as much. Same thing, though). The producers are holding their…
> At some stage, the littlies at the St Stephan Catholic kindergarten in Gonso were provided with buckets of paint and brushes and instructed to a) not make a mess…
> ….lion Comes from the French “Dent-de-Lyon” – Lions’ Tooth – and if you look at the serrated leaf, you can see why. Around here, it’s called “Löwenzahn” Which is…
> This was just TOO tempting. I couldn’t resist. It’ll doubtless get me blacklisted. An Italian’s studying the plans of his new house with the interior designer. “I wanna a…
> Figures on the former portal of seminary of the Order of St Augustine in the eponymous road. Interesting to see that they named the order after the road. (Thinks:…
> …there’s a Miguel. Both Will Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on 23 April. It all gets a bit confusing, because one was Gregorian and the other Julian (calendar-wise)…
> Crikey, was this tourist guide chappy spinning some yarns! Talk about inventive! And they BELIEVED him too! I was about to leap in and put him straight, but other…
> My mate Frank the Potter and his wife, Mrs jb’s girlfriend, Ingrid put on their Pots and Plants Spring Show in their garden at the weekend. Perfect weather, nice…
> Ornamental cherry (prunus avanacluia) at the top of its game outide the kitchen window. (And yes, the heart was MY idea. Yeah right…) Shameless commercialism: here’s my mate Wisely…
> At the top end of the Augustinerstrasse. I wrote to a friend when the European airspace was closed down that it wouldn’t take long for it to become very…
> There are experts. And then there are EXPERTS. Writ large. Odile Landragin and Sibylle Kallwei at the Oppenheim Plant Fair last Sunday, purveying all sorts of temptingly good…
> …and around the block. After this trip (involving this near malheur), I figured I deserved a treat. Tiramisu and lemon Especially seeing that I’d just burned 589 calories. I…
> Tends not to get the feminine hormones in quite such an uproar as the white stuff….
> For someone who used to look at an aircraft that flew over the house and work out how much revenue that particular flight would generate for the company(“€7.50 Weight…
Carl Wenning is a sly old bugger. He’s got a crafty glint in his eye and I know why. He’s back on the market in Mainz, dressed like a…
> This isn’t the VERY first asparagus of the season (Chilean asparagus – with a carbon footprint this size of Shanghai – has been sighted plus the usual Italian/Spanish invasion)…
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