(You have to have kept poultry to get that one…) Everyone’s favourite chook on the market.
Competition on the market the other day. Shutter speed of somewhere close to 300 seconds….
I THINK that this is an empty icecream container. HOPING, anyway. Too many doctors’ practices in the vicinity to be sure, though…..
Talk about a quantity discount! A glass will knock you back €0.80. A litre costs €1.10. No contest!
If there are any farmers out there in Droughtland reading this, just send me a couple of business class tickets and we’ll be over in a flash to bring you…
I’m sure she could do this blindfolded… zip, zap, zip and it’s done.
….catcher. At €35 a litre, you’d be silly to let any go to waste..
A couple of new stands on the market – one lurking next to Cafe Moguntia selling delicate cake-type thingies and an outfit just over the way selling some wild varieties…
Backlit apiarisms at the market. Tagline from Rupert Brooke‘s The Old Vicarage, Grantchester Peter Sellers recycled it in his exquisite 1958 American travelogue parody. One man, all the voices..
The Boat People post last month had people confused about the strange grey UFO- like objects on the stand next to the Bluemels. I can reveal that their true (and…
….the soft rays of an autumnal sun and a Caffee Moguntia coffee. And not at all Riesling-esque Quite the opposite, in fact…
Important stuff, this. Taste The Waste is a grass-roots political platform created to combat food waste. They put on an event on the Gutenbergplatz on Friday, serving 3500 really good…
Gary and Kathy Bluemel from Loudon, Tennessee. When you see a group of people with eyes as big as saucers and wearing name tags, gazing in wonderment at the sights…
..has a silver lining. Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz (Mainz Cathedral to you…) reflected on wet cobblestones on the market
…….trick. Some people stand out on the market. People carrying around cheese packed in gingham-patterned paper, for instance………
Dead easy. Spend €3 on a physalis plant. Stick it in the ground. Wait 5 years, during which time it will have invaded your entire garden (plus those of all…
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday. Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long. I am the…
Friday market. Joni says it so well. OK. Substitute “violin” for “clarinet”
“Fava beans” sounds SO much more elegant. They could charge AT LEAST €3.50 a kilo. Even “broad beans” would fetch €3.20….
…”she looks like a Riesling” said Kalle Stöckle. We were at a dinner in a vineyard restaurant and sitting down the table from a particularly acerbic looking lady. The visual…
“Parking the van. Back at 8:50” No-one steals his cashbox or nicks any bread. Just do a circuit of the market and come back in 10 minutes. He’s worth it.
The real McCoy, as it were, decorating the collar of the Heunensäuleon the market
It’s always a surprise to find what you associate with cooler days and longer nights on the market in mid-summer. Savoy cabbage, for example. It’s only when you listen to…
Just go from one end of a SINGLE MARKET STAND in Mainz and take one image each of what they’re selling at the moment. This was last Friday…..
“Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don’t care about spots on my apples lemons, Leave me the birds and the bees – please” (Big yellow taxi,…
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