> Out and about with cousin Ruth and Mrs jb the other week at Cafe Dinges. The two of them were talking away and at the neighbouring table, Felipe’s mum…
> Jean Arp was one of the founding circle of the Dada movement and is omnipresent in these parts. This sculpture in front of Mainz’s Rathaus (town hall) and the…
> petunia sunflower in an onion sugar beet patch. The original over here
> This here guy’s a magician. At the Fellow Citizens Festival the other day/week/month. Pour various coloured oils onto water. Make patterns. Carefully plop a sheet of paper onto the…
> In real life, Martin Kijaszek is a graphic designer. Runs his own advertising agency. The rest of the time, he’s Billy Crash, troubador extraordinaire, singing blues in the local…
> Gerry Rafferty – Baker St. Good album. Sitting outside (well, actually, yes. In Mallorca. 22ºC. Sunshine. Eat your hearts out) is definitely something to look forward to. But then…
> The new synagogue in Mainz (don’t ask what happened to the old one – read your history books..) was inaugurated by the Federal President at the beginning of last…
> Of all the folk one meets at the TSOW, Falco is one of the most affectionate. His owner (invariably dressed in hunting kit with plus-fours) tells me that he’s…
> Gave us great enjoyment until the ravages of time turned the blossoms into tight little balls of kapok and the shredder transported it to Plant Heaven aka the compost…
> Poultry stand lady at the market is a dab hand at transferring eggs from a big tray to the standard 10 egg box. 2 at a time. Almost robotic.…
> Germany has a Mixed Member Proportional voting system, unlike the “First past the post” system in the UK and the Electoral College system in the USA for presidential elections.…
> ……put away your DDTI don’t care about spots on my apples,Leave me the birds and the bees – please. Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi, 1970 Heritage apples on display…
> 21 points. Bayern Munich, the perennial championship with an annual budget that approximates the GDP of a small country, is a mere 3 points away from the relegation zone.…
> …I am not lonely”Neil McCauley played by Robert de Niro in “Heat” 1995 The Café Dinges delivery van thingie parked/abandoned in the Mailandgasse, contemplating the pure ugliness of the…
> Sibylle “Oh, go on – take my photo if you have to” Kallweit is one of Odile’s Busy Lizzies. She’s also an excellent photographer. Odile featured her at…
> …chairs. People around here are like magpies. Leave something lying around and it’ll disappear itself in a flash. Outside Weinhaus Michel, Jakobsberg. Trivia alarm: I’ve just checked and discovered…
> Not even a cumulo-cimbus-mirrus to deface a perfectly blue sky ….especially if it’s about the future.” Niels Bohr Meanwhile. Somewhere in the village, it’s winter with sleet and decidedly…
> You meet just the nicest people at the TSOW. Emma and Johanna (5 and 7 months respectively) for instance.
> ..lead to the drain. Market square in Mainz. Put it down to jet lag.
Shill (n): a person who helps another person or organization to sell goods or services without disclosing their relationship with the seller Schiller: Bloke on a pillar on the eponymous…
>The Knowledge Fair in Mainz (scroll back a couple of weeks – can’t link in Blogpress) coincides with the strangest darned events on the market square in front of the…
> Isabel Holdsworth was Mum’s BFF (as they say). She’s 92, acts like 72 and still drives. And rips into the garage if they try to overcharge her.She’s worked for…
> As you can tell, the combination of jet lag (just get over it and it’s time to go home…), the constant search for affordable WiFi (Nelson airport this morning…
> David Slack, a New Zealand writer, journalist and bon vivant describes himself on Twitter as “Whisky drinker. Glass always half full” Given that I’m in his necks of the…
> I used to have one of these. For a day. Guy I used to work with (he was in Los Angeles, I was in Frankfurt) told me that…
Here I am, stuck in Meg and Ben territory (and being studiously ignored by Meg, who should perhaps check her cellphone..) suffering blue skies, 18ºC and sitting in the Boatshed…
> “People who don’t believe in miracles aren’t realists” Thus spoke Walter Scheel, a former Federal President. Things like this aren’t meant to happen. The local team, Mainz 05, yo-yos…
> Don’t understand this stuff at the best of times (I lost track when “Kilroy was here” gradually disappeared from view and when people stopped writing “Clapton is God”) but…
Ticking over until summer drags in the tourists… – Posted using BlogPress
> Just gone done and won another prize…. The local city monthly “Der Mainzer” runs a photo competition sponsored by Saturn*, a big box consumer electronics outfit. This was “Refreshment”.…
> Skill sets on display at Villa Musica. Not many places in the world where you’re pretty much guaranteed of getting high levels of artisan skills. Here, for sure
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