Amaryllis (Amaryllii?) finely tuned to blossom on Christmas Eve, ceramic vase by Christine Boswijk
…that the otherwise bankrupt city of Mainz raided the piggy bank and came up with enough small change to set up a Christmas tree in front of the Staatstheater. And…
It’s about time this Advent candle-burning caper reached its “Best by” date. I’ve got one of these Netatmo weather stations and it’s telling me that the CO2 levels around here…
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…
Gudrun Klag has gracefully segued from Autumn to Winter. Good if you like green……
Fairy lights at the Christmas market
..goin’ round and around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2n2iiiIGQ Happy 70th, Keef…
It’s Christmas time. This is the Schillerplatz, one of Mainz’s major squares and by far the busiest. So where are the Christmas decorations? I’ll tell you where. Creating shareholder value,…
Chilly this morning…
In the art gallery that is the Augustinergässchen
…through the Augustinergässchen
Got a bolleauxing the other day. This is the preferred image……
Don’t read the papers for a couple of days and you miss some important stuff. New pope being elected, it appears. No idea why they chose Mainz as the venue.…
…it means “at the excavate” Given that it’s part of a display outside the Johanniskirche, I don’t think it’s Portuguese….
Paul Bonna, proprietor of the ever-excellent kaffeekommune in the Gaustrasse (worth the climb…) obviously thinks – at the ripe old age of 25… – that opening 5 days a week…
No, you’re only meant to light a new candle on Sunday, not every day….
Accepted that railway stations tend not to be the best visiting card for a city/town/hamlet (it’s almost like you’re being mooned…), but the further one ventures out into the countryside…
Christmas baubles capping flagstaffs? OTT, IMHO.
1st Advent Sunday today, so Ms jb and her willing helpers having been decking the halls with boughs of holly digging through boxes full of Christmas crap decorations. All very…
Try ’em/like ’em. buy ’em at Appel Happel in Lerchenberg
Aaaaaaah!
THIS is Black and White….. (If you can tell the difference, I sure as hell can’t.)
“Mayence” (which is what the Froggies ..er.. French call the place ) is a new magazine featuring young funky entrepreneurs. No big surprise, then, that Paul and KaffeeKommune zwei are…
I’ve been helping organise the Alzey Pottery Market for the past few years – set up their website, got some decent content from the potters (a profile so that people…
Rugby. Ireland vs New Zealand. 1 New Zealander. 6 Irish. 1 German, rooting for NZ. NZ wins 24:22 in overtime. Bloody hell….
Mainz Daily Photo 