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30 Oct

Oi! Who stole my wine glass?!

A forcibly teetotal cherubim (seraphim…?) on the Osteiner Hof.
30 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
29 Oct

Truffles?

“I’ll snuffle anyway” Sid at work. Guest photog: Ute Matschke
29 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
28 Oct

Little Miss Muffet……

28 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
27 Oct

This says “Autumn” ….

…better than I can. (That’s “Fall” for the colonials…) My friend (and client, but more friend than client..)  Ute Matschke took this with a smartphone. Which just proves that it’s…
27 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
26 Oct

The best Wiener Schnitzel in the Mitternachtsgasse

Also in Mainz. Also in Rheinland-Pfalz. Also in Germany. Anyway, that’s what the award says that has pride of place on the wall at the Martinstube, slap bang in the…
26 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
25 Oct

Let there be light….

Raise thine eyes to the heavens and look with wonder at St Stephanus…. Probably has to finish with “I beseech thee” Wouldn’t know…
25 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
24 Oct

Stripped

No “pre-loved rolls” from the day before. No “vintage loaves” at half price. They’ll be up at 3am, firing up the ovens and  driving the neighbours crazy with the smell…
24 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
23 Oct

Been there, done that…

..got the t-shirt. Er, shopping bag
23 October, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
22 Oct

Ad Ardua per Astra

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – dig at your peril in Mainz. You’re likely to stumble across a Roman boatyard with the remains of 17 canoes.…
22 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
21 Oct

He who pays the piper…..

Pipes of the (relatively) new organ at St Stephans. “New” is always relative around here, given that we’re over 2000 years old. And 3 years old is just the blink…
21 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
20 Oct

“Nonioidesis” is Latin for ugly leaves

Our neighbour planted a Catalpa bignonioides a few decades ago. It appears to have enjoyed the location, because it grew enthusiastically. It’s a beautiful tree. For 3 days a year,…
20 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
19 Oct

And CHRISTMAS decorations on the ceiling of the Frankfurter Hof?!

Oh. They’re always there? (I’m not paranoid, but I just wish they’d stop following me…)
19 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
18 Oct

And when you think it can’t get any worse…..

ZZ Top clones as Rockin’ Santas. At least it’s not “Rockin Santa’s…….. Yet….
18 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
17 Oct

Now, this is silly…

People, it’s only mid-October. Why on EARTH are you selling bottles of mulled wine as if the festive season is only a week away. Next thing, they’ll be selling Christmas…
17 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
16 Oct

Stumbling blocks

I attended the laying of two Stolpersteine – “stumbling blocks’ – yesterday morning on a cold wet day that was a friend to no-one and which seemed more than appropriate…
16 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
15 Oct

Rickie Lee Jones in concert.

Frankfurter Hof in the Altstadt on Tuesday night. You could have taken a feed from the sound desk and issued it untouched. That good.
15 October, 2015 at 08:00 5 Comments
14 Oct

“Burning the candle at both ends….”

…twice the light in half the time” Joe Walsh from “Falling Down” Only one end here. St. Stephans
14 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
13 Oct

Long story…

A long time ago (3 years actually, but at my age…), Robin Fullmer wrote to me about a program on a Jewish emigree to New Zealand, I did some research…
13 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
12 Oct

Who needs New England?

Indian Summer in Mainz
12 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
11 Oct

Good deeds

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, you’ll be aware that the trickle of refugees from Syria/Eritrea/Libya/Balkans has grown from a trickle to a…
11 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
09 Oct

No dinosaurs…..

…but heaps of other good stuff… Natural History Museum
9 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
08 Oct

No smoke without fire.

Oh. They’re clouds……
8 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
07 Oct

Nothing if not modern….

Here in Mainz, we’ve progressed from sun clocks to egg timers. I’m sure we’ll see wind-up chronometers within the next millennium….. (This is the world’s biggest and most accurate, gifted…
7 October, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
06 Oct

Certainly was this morning

Don’t recall reading that 8 degrees C were on special offer, but it was rather parky
6 October, 2015 at 08:05 1 Comment
05 Oct

Stuck

You know that something’s wrong when buses start thrashing up and down the Gaustrasse, shuttling passengers along the route normally served by trams. Probably “leaves on the track”. No, wait,…
5 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
04 Oct

Purl one, knit one, drop one…..

Just don’t ask me how this tree opposite Mitternacht 18 squeezed into this pullover. Or swedderrr, as the colonials call them
4 October, 2015 at 10:00 2 Comments
03 Oct

Shelter Part 2

This was an option for Thursday. I stumbled over an article by Michael Bermeitinger of the Allgemeine Zeitung dating back a year or so about a humungous chunk of concrete…
3 October, 2015 at 08:22 1 Comment
02 Oct

It’s emotional. OK? Just emotional…

My young friend Lena is studying law (but I’ve almost forgiven her for that) She’s spent the last 3 months as a foreign comparative law clerk in a judge’s chambers…
2 October, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
01 Oct

Monthly Theme Day – October 2015 – Shelter (from the shadows…}

I do love Paul Bonna’s kaffeekommune, but it’s definitely solaristically challenged. Solution: Grab a chair, move to the sunny side of the street. Tony’ll take his life in his hands…
1 October, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
30 Sep

The tinfoil hat conspiracy brigade….

…would have you believe that these are chemtrails, used by the Gummint to geo-engineer [sic] the weather and drug us into submission. All I can tell you is that this…
30 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
29 Sep

And it was going so well……

Halftime score: 0:0 Niko Bungert has a market value of €2.5m. He marked Robert Lewandowski (who scored 5 goals in 9 minutes against Wolfsburg last week) Market value? €50m He…
29 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment