I know that fashion tends to be ephemeral, but these bags are liable to meet their “Best by” date before I’ve finished my cup of coffee. Has-beans, one could say…
Preserved lemons and limes. Dead easy. Lemons. Limes. Sea salt. Bay leaves. Peppercorns
Reminds me of the intro to the long-running German TV crime series “Tatort” (“Crime Scene”). Moves were made to replace it with something more modern (after a mere 38 years…).…
Mother Blackbird headed off for a break and I grabbed this view of her nest in our buxus buxus. More follows
Sliced tomatoes. Torn buffalo mozzarella. Torn basil leaves. New Zealand olive oil. 30º in the shade. Excellent.
Injuns Ethnic Americans appear to have invaded Mainz. If they don’t move their teepees from the flowerbeds, I shall Sioux….
Lighter-load of scrap metal at the harbour in Mainz
Chinese captain, operating under a French flag. Seen at km23 on a 70km bike tour along the Rhine
Or lanes. I feared the worst when the grinder came along a couple of weeks ago and skimmed off the bike lane markings on my direct route into the Fumée…
Someone told me these were pot plants. Dried the leaves, rolled a decent sized blunt and took a surreptitious drag. Not much of a buzz and somehow it tasted different…
When a Sempervivum gets too big for its boots pot, I simply break off the rosettes and propagate them in 1/3 compost, 1/3 potting mix and 1/3 sharp grit. Dead…
..just how BORED I am…
…or we fell asleep texting. Either way, we were snoring. Audibly.
Serious stuff in Odile’s greenhouse.
..of course, don’t stand a chance in Odile’s garden. She’s French, dontcha know, so they fall into the category of “culinarily persecuted“….
“Stuck on you” takes on a totally new meaning with Odile’s oh-so-very environmentally friendly flytrap.
Up until the 1960s, most villages around here had a Backhaus, a communal bakery that was fired up weekly and where you took the loaves that you’d prepared at home…
Potting bench in Odile’s greenhouse.
Marius, son of Frank and Mrs Frank the Potter certainly fits the student profile. Especially one studying philosophy and languages at Mainz University. An energy drink is “cognitive enhancement” and…
There’s a new club. Friends of Odile‘s Garden Costs €36 ($50-ish) a year and you get a badge, priority bookings at events and the chance to sit around regularly for…
Just like most of the stuff you’ll read here.
I just DO like Spring…
April 25 has little significance outside Australia and New Zealand. On this day in 1915, Allied troops, including the New Zealand and Australian ANZAC Corps, landed on the Gallipoli peninsula…
Mainz 05, our very own 1st Division football (soccer) team, achieves its modest goal of staying up there with the Big Boys. And that 3 games before the end of…
Better than Ho Tensis, anyway…
Good works at work in Klein-Winternheim. Local folk get together to organise a flea market in the cycle club’s winter quarters with the proceeds (€5k this time around) going to…
Genteel decay at the Arp Museum’s excellent Interieur 253 café-restaurant.
…inquired a convalescing Warrior Cyclist. “Not too bad” said the picture in considerably fewer than 1000 words.
Jochen Rindt, the Mainz-born racing driver who drove under an Austrian racing licence, would have been 70 yesterday. The city’s finally woken up to the fact that they should do…
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