> Littlie captured @ 1/800 f3.5 300mm @ the Villa Musica concerts
> …all in a row. Which is either a movie with Rock Hudson a Joe Walsh song on the Eagles’ definitive “Hotel California” album a pressie from a family of…
> Helen, MDP’s favourite stand-in blogger, resurfaced briefly the other week before disappearing to that country next to New Zealand for the next 6 weeks. Met up at the…
> When you have bits of your inner meniscus cut away via keyhole surgery, all the gunk and stuff that stays in the joint glues your kneecap to whatever else…
> It was like déja vu all over again. Wrapping up a littlie in a sheet and carrying it around one’s neck appears to be the preferred international paediatric mode…
> 3 of Christoph and Uschi Niklas’s 7 grandkids – Magdalena, Kalle und Lucie – at Freya’s christening the other week.
> So. Farewell then Bat Resident Sinologist Alien Expert Occasional 50 Grad scribe Architect too Let’s hope she hasn’t been shanghaid in Shanghai E.J Thribb (17½) *”Bat” has been a…
Reinhilde Roth (on the right, with her sister Christine) runs the eponymous farm shop in the village. She started out with a tiny corner of her parents’ farmhouse, selling only…
> …I’m just sooooo unphotogenic” said Julia, one of Doc Höffler‘s deputy torturesses assistants. “Well”, I said “if that’s the only blemish, I wouldn’t really worry about it” I sensed…
> These guys appear to be on day-release from Guantanamo Bay. From the uniform, at least. They must be the harmless ones. The ones I’ve seen on TV all have…
> .. Halloween’s alive and thriving in Mainz. A veritable coven at work at one of the flower stands today. Probably making brooms for a quick getaway….
> Reece and Alicia, an exceptionally pleasant (despite his being a Corporate Lawyer – the Devil Incarnate, no less. Boo, hiss, where’s the garlic?) couple of Americans living Frankfurt, turned…
> Uschi and Christoph Niklas are just the finest people. They’ve worked all their lives to put their kids through school and into good jobs, they’re 5-fold grandparents (with another…
> Saturday morning grocery bill: €46.23 Having the cashier say “Unbezahlbar” when she scans your little boy and hands him back to you: Priceless. There are some things money can’t…
> My mate Frank the Potter is a magician, really. He takes a lump of soggy clay, puts it on a rotating wheel and makes a pot. With his hands.…
> ….how? Invasion of the Littlies from up the road
> Kiddyo here’s got the right idea. Fronts up at the TSOW of a Saturday and gets served a glass of frothed milk, while the rest of us dig in…
> My young friend Lena from across the way – having thankfully escaped the clutches of the mullahs – is home for Christmas. Not in time to partake of the…
> ..dude. Whatever. Anselm Vladden, who runs Gallery 27 in the Altstadt together with his wife Gisela, is an exceptionally cool dude. Red shoe laces. Don’t see that very often….
> Not that I claim to know much about these things, but I believe that some women are silly enough to a) have large format photos takenb) submit themselves to…
> Kalle – my mate Christoph’s grandson – appears to be indestructible. Falls over, bounces up. Lies flat on a skateboard and heads at high speed for the gap between…
> Karl Lehmann (Cardinal Karl Lehman, actually) has been the Bishop of Mainz for 25 years. I’m not actually on his team (Mrs jb is; I’m more of a Chreaster…
> NQM (Not Quite Mainz) but not too far out of town. Best advertising for a plumbing outfit I’ve seen. And before anyone asks: No, it’s not……
> Everyone gets them, claimed Andy Warhol. Lisa Bund’s had more than her fair share, if you ask me. Not content with getting into the finals of Germany’s “American Idol”…
> …are made for reading… Nida Kilian – being somewhat vertically challenged – was standing on a chair, sorting some books on one of the top shelves in “Shakespeare &…
> Or is it “Smells like teen spirit”? You only realise how many kids there are in Mainz when you’re waiting at the bus/tram stop in the Schillerstrasse when the…
> The Christmas season encroaches more and more every year. The first decorations turned up in one of those smelly shops (to which I’m allergic on both olfactoral and financial…
> I’ve known Lena from across the road since she was a “littlie”, as Isla Leslie would say. “What’s your name? What are you doing? What’s that plant? When’s your…
> © Frank Jung 2008 OK, so this is neither a) my photograph or b) in Mainz but it’s too good not to publish. My mate Frank the Potter, having…
> 500th Mainz Daily Photo (thanks in part to Helen and Meg for keeping the show on the road during forced absences.) And seeing as it’s an anniversay (that I’m…
> I had a bit of time to kill one morning last week before my physiotherapy session. If it had been Tuesday, Friday or Saturday I would have been round…
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