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13 Feb

>Same same – #883

> Lurking around the Karneval section of one of the hypermarkets in a condition of open-mouthed disbelief, I stumbled over…. …..a whole section of paraphernalia devoted to Mainz 05. Now,…
13 February, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
12 Feb

>Not again… – #882

> This is as close as I’m prepared to get the Karneval business, especially today (yesterday, actually)  – Weiberfastnacht – where drunken and lascivious wimmin roam the town, brandishing scissors…
12 February, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
11 Feb

>The boy’s back – #881

> Mme Professor over at fishandchips got in first, of course, but she supposedly lives just around the corner. So it’s nice to see you back on your pedestal, looking…
11 February, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
10 Feb

>It’s nightime in the Big City – #880

> Burning the midnight oil at the Wilhelm-Emmanuel-von-Ketter-Schule, a vocational school just down the road from St Stephans. I think they ran out of wall space for his full name……
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09 Feb

>Baby, it’s cold outside.. #879

> Welcome to Soccerworld, then, where it’s always warm and dry, if a tad cramped. 6 indoor soccer fields and 9 badminton courts, open from 9 until midnight and hourly…
9 February, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
08 Feb

>Mother knows best – 878

> A “Drop of the Best” from Mother and Son. “Mutter and Sohn”, to be precise, a family operation based in Mainz-Bretzenheim Except that “Sohn” is  “Mutter”  (Walter Mutter, that…
8 February, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
07 Feb

>Use by ……#877

>   …tomorrow,. Visiting Frank the Potter the other night, sitting in the cafe at the University Clinic and minding our own business, when up loomed one of the salesgirls.…
7 February, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
06 Feb

>Ringsgwandl = #876

> I’ll try and describe last night’s concert in the Frankfurter Hof. Probably unsuccessfully, but whatever. Georg Ringsgwandl is Bavarian with an impenetrable accent. He says things like “Some artists…
6 February, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
05 Feb

>Erdgeschoss – #875

> For example. At the University Clinic, visiting Frank the Potter who’s getting a detached retina undetached. Poor sod. Of course, in America this would be the 1st floor, which…
5 February, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
04 Feb

>Looking for the next best thing – #874

> They never had a chance, of course. The coach reckoned that it would be a sensation if they squeezed out a draw.(He said that they might have a chance…
4 February, 2010 at 12:00 Leave a comment
03 Feb

>Im(mobility) – #873

>  Europe’s different to a lot of other places. Folk tend to stay put, rather than pack everything up and relocate to greener pastures at the drop of a hat.…
3 February, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
02 Feb

>Different day (or month)…. – #872

> …same….er…snow.
2 February, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
01 Feb

>Monthly Theme Day – Wood – #871

> If only it wood stop snowing. Conditionally speaking, that is… Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
1 February, 2010 at 12:00 6 Comments
31 Jan

>Making tracks – #870

> Tracks of the  European Conspicio vermes. Certainly up before me this morning
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30 Jan

Mucky fat – #869

> That’s what they call it in Yorkshire – unfiltered drippings from roast meat. The rest of the civilised world knows it as “bread and dripping” Around here, it’s romantically…
30 January, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
29 Jan

>Schnorreswackler – #868

> Not that I understand much about this stuff, of course, but it is That Time Of Year again, when the local newspaper reports on Karneval to the virtual exclusion…
29 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
28 Jan

>Rituals – #867

> Rituals are important. When you go to a Mainz 05 game, there’s a fixed procedure: Get there an hour early Get a beer Discuss strategy with whoever’s within earshot…
28 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
27 Jan

>In my next life.. – #866

> ..I think I shall be reincarnated as Joachim Brohm. (I could even keep my initials.) He’s a well-known (in Germany) photographer of industrial wastelands and marginal zones and the…
27 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
26 Jan

>Kill the fatted calf – #865

>   I don’t normally PhotoShop, but these endless grey skies are getting on my wick….. What DOES, of course, brighten up everyone’s lives is the fact that Johannes G…
26 January, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
25 Jan

>Men at work – #864

> And NOW I know why football/soccer players are overwhelmingly overcome by gravity and writhe around the pitch in excruciating pain as soon as one of the opposition gets near…
25 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
24 Jan

>For free, as well – #863

> A very welcome sight at yesterday’s match was this chappy (I think his name’s  Bernard…) who turned up midway through the first half (by which time we were leading…
24 January, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
23 Jan

>Humba Humba Humba Täterä – #862

>   Excellent! Christoph‘s got hold of 2 tickets for today’s Mainz05 game vs Hanover. Must be do-able – Mainz 10th in the table, Hanover 16th – but Hanover’s got…
23 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
22 Jan

>They’re back – #861

>   And about time too… TSOW’s back on the market. Until they make another pile of money and decide to disappear to far-flung places to spend it all, that…
22 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
20 Jan

>Snowcapped – #859

>   Some readers will doubtless categorise this image of an unfortunate hydrangea blossom as romantic….. Snow Gems (English Sonnet)     Snow falls to earth as weightless feather down,slow…
20 January, 2010 at 12:11 3 Comments
19 Jan

>Cold hearted – #858

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19 January, 2010 at 12:12 4 Comments
18 Jan

>The Big (de)-Freeze – #857

> Big dump of sloppy snow and freezing rain on Saturday night and now the big Melt has set in. Except that none of the liquid stuff was going down…
18 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
17 Jan

>The land of Latte e Miele – #856

>You don’t need to head south of the Alps to experience Bella Italia. Just pop over to Kastel (which is STILL Mainz as far as we’re concerned…..) to Celpro and…
17 January, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
16 Jan

>Waiting for Easter – #855

>   Unless, of course, a mythical bird of prey turned up and deposited them on the bench in front of the kitchen window. They appear to have been there…
16 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
15 Jan

>Monthly Theme Day -Best photo of the year 2009 – #854

> Technically and artistically, I’m sure I took better photos in 2009. None of them, though, make me drool on my keyboard as this one did Go over here for…
15 January, 2010 at 12:00 7 Comments
14 Jan

>Tools of the trade – #853

> Need I say more…?
14 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
13 Jan

>Light at the end of the tunnel – #852

> All the way along, in fact, thanks to the attractive neon tubes. The pedestrian tunnel under the tracks at the Römisches Theater train station. The assorted clutter and detritus…
13 January, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment