Going to Heinrichs – Die Wirtschaft for Friday lunch is almost like going to lunch with friends. We’re not “regulars” – probably only once every 6-8 weeks – but we’re…
At this very moment, Ms jb is attending (as his personal guest) a reception at the town hall honouring Chief Inspector Theo Braunshausen’s 40th anniversary of manning the small police…
We had a heap of insulation work done on the house this year, involving stripping out the old insulation from the loft, pumping in 30cm of Isofloc cellulose, ripping out…
Look who I stumbled on by – ahem – pure chance at the Hardware Cafe in Titirangi on the way to the airport – Paul of Auckland West fame and…
…scratch! No-one does it better than Falco – everybody’s favourite dog – here with his appropriately dressed owner.
Vertically-challenged young person unwillingly observing a non-existent moon.
…when did Sarah (second from left) grow up, then? We know Sarah – she’s his nephew’s daughter. Nicest family you could imagine – through our friend Christoph. On the market…
Ronald Huckels must be the friendliest guy on the market in Mainz. He’s usually there Tuesdays and Fridays selling organic sourdough bread and other goodies and I’ve never experienced him…
Some bugger is running around, defacing manpersonhole covers with graffiti, declaring his everlasting PDAs for Lena I thought that was my job…..
We famous people know what it’s like, right? You’re out and about, hidden behind the RayBan Wayfarers, and people recognise you and then pretend NOT to recognise you. We just…
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
If it wasn’t for iPhoto’s “Faces” function, I would never have noticed the poor soul caught in the maelstrom at Bad-Kreuznach’s weir pool. I seem to recall hearing some yelling,…
“Uns schickt der Himmel – 72-Stunden-Aktion des BDKJ” is just the coolest idea. The BDKJ [Federation of German Catholic Youth] with its 650,000 members does a lot of good deeds.…
I mean, I know there’s the scenery and the wine and the food, but Nathalie who runs Avignon in Photos is also a pretty good reason to visit Provence. We…
People in Lederhosen and braces embroidered with Edelweiss on the market the other day. Definitely not locals…
“Mum said that if I keep sucking my thumb, it’ll disappear. She didn’t say anything about it turning BLUE….”
In my spare time (and as a favour to these 2, although I charge other people), I set up web presences for artists. Ute Matschke (l) and Maria Meyer (r)…
Caffea Moguntia Caffee Monguntia Moguntia Kaffeerösterei changes its name so often, I have difficulty keeping up. The same with their recent intern Svenya, pictured here. If we hadn’t drifted by…
I did what I could to keep my young friend Lena on the tracks, but to no avail. Here she is, barely 26, drinking, smoking, studying LAW, of all things…
Rocked on over to The Fat Tui at Marahau the other week with Steve and Robin Fullmer. (Steve asks “Now, do you want to go the inneresting way or the…
Footwear is frequently jandals (as documented by the pale chevron on this chappy’s feet). Or nothing at all.
Charmaine “Char” Jack is a director of Edito, a design store on the fringe of Nelson’s CDB featuring an eclectic mix of antique and contemporary furniture and accessories. Also recognised…
Monsignor Klaus Mayer, my luncheon companion of the other day, is having his 90th birthday celebrated for him in style with a concert in his honour in the Stephanskirche this…
Lena and I have been an item for close to 20 years, which is when she moved in across the road with her parents and limpeted herself to me almost…
You’re not meant to write them down! Pauline at Sonntagskind
…you can always come around here” said Uli Zawar of Sonntagskind fame. Daughter Pauline (“Paulinchen” in familyspeak) for example.
…wasissenDES?” “Pray tell me, Roswitha, what have you bought NOW? “Ei, Karl-Günthä, dessinDaddele” “Dates, dear Hans-Günther” “Daddele?! DADDELE?! WasmachstzumdeibeldodamitdeneDaddele, Roswitha?” “Dates? DATES?! What on earth are you going to do…
On more levels than one….
At the Gonsenheim market the other week doing “Still life with cabbages” (tomorrow, if I can’t find anything better) when this lady and her bicycle patiently waited while I finished…
More than you’d think. I stumbled over Butterbergreul, an alleyway in Gonsenheim, last year and try as I might, I couldn’t trace the origin of the name. Stumped. And I…
I bumped into Australian motorsport journalist Andrew van Leeuwen and his harem back in July and we’ve been exchanging Mainz 05 commiserations and beer tasting notes (he has no idea, but…
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