> Ornamental cherry (prunus avanacluia) at the top of its game outide the kitchen window. (And yes, the heart was MY idea. Yeah right…) Shameless commercialism: here’s my mate Wisely…
> At the top end of the Augustinerstrasse. I wrote to a friend when the European airspace was closed down that it wouldn’t take long for it to become very…
> There are experts. And then there are EXPERTS. Writ large. Odile Landragin and Sibylle Kallwei at the Oppenheim Plant Fair last Sunday, purveying all sorts of temptingly good…
> …and around the block. After this trip (involving this near malheur), I figured I deserved a treat. Tiramisu and lemon Especially seeing that I’d just burned 589 calories. I…
> Top: iPhone 3GSBottom: Panasonic FX60 Yep, there is a difference. But not much… (This is my first non-Nikon camera since 1978. It feels a bit strange…)
> Tends not to get the feminine hormones in quite such an uproar as the white stuff….
> For someone who used to look at an aircraft that flew over the house and work out how much revenue that particular flight would generate for the company(“€7.50 Weight…
Carl Wenning is a sly old bugger. He’s got a crafty glint in his eye and I know why. He’s back on the market in Mainz, dressed like a…
> This isn’t the VERY first asparagus of the season (Chilean asparagus – with a carbon footprint this size of Shanghai – has been sighted plus the usual Italian/Spanish invasion)…
> The catastrophic absence of decent coffee on the market last week made me aware of an urgent need for contingency planning. This place isn’t bad – Die Mainzer Kaffemanufaktur…
> Not absolutely jam-packed, eh? Shopping hours are fairly liberal after decades (centuries..?) of an appalling service ethic. Want to buy something on Wednesday afternoon in the village? No. (And…
> I had LOADS more photographs from Not the Nelson Daily Photo than I could have used before I had to come to terms with reality (and geography) and get…
> The discount chains (Aldi, Lidl et al) in Germany have over 50% of the grocery market and they pretty much set the market price for commodities. Milk, for example.…
> Mrs jb’s mumble-mumble birthday yesterday, so we rocked on over to “Heinrichs – Die Wirtschaft” to commiserate celebrate. “Heinrich” is Wilfried Heinrich Nestle (no, not a scion of the…
> That there dirt’s all the way from Cyprus. I’d be a bit worried if I were a Cypriot, in fact. The place has to be getting levelled out over…
> Correction: was sprung. 6ºC, down from 18ºC yesterday. Major advantages: Stops Nature blasting off on a time-lapse version of the seasons. Major disadvantages: Makes me wear shoes again.Image: iPhone…
> Well, you’d look depressed too if you’d got up at stupid o’clock, put on your best shirt and rocked on down to the market in Mainz, only for the…
> Heidi and Thomas Rabold are apiarists. (He’s an engineer in real life, buzzing around in his spare time, shifting hives around to where they’re needed. Finthen for apricots this…
> Don’t think so. Looks a bit hare-raising to me….. Sculpture: Andreas Hinder
> You really have to feel sorry for St. Andreas, the patron saint of the RC church in Klaawinnerum. All he REALLY wants to do is to sit on his…
> Why is it that pollarded trees (planes, I think. They don’t look very fancy, anyway…) remind me of ET. Or someone who’s had an argument with a circular saw.…
>Monika Debus is one of Germany’s most recognised and leading ceramicists of her generation. I fulfilled a long-harboured wish today by buying one of her major (as in “a couple…
> All heathen stuff, of course – the Zorastrians have been Nowroozing with painted eggs for over 2500 years, but still good fun. You can get all sorts of petrochemical…
> This is the aftermath of a haute couture session involving Mrs jb, Christa G and my credit card. I’m always getting yelled at for leaving stuff lying around…
> Yesterday was Maundy Thursday aka Gründonnerstag (Green Thursday), Skärtorsdag (HT to Leif) and sundry other names. The “green” bit could come from the medieval wearing of green vestments or…
> “You could have told me you were a haemophiliac BEFORE I pricked your ear for the haemoglobin test” she said. “Just KEEP PRESSING the cotton wool to your ear”…
> Not too sure if that’s Jupiter there. Pretty sure I can identify Mars. Saturn for sure. (Floor pattern with a tad of rotation in the latter, being an electronic…
>I’ll admit to having seen pink ELEPHANTS on numerous occasions during a fairly successful drinking career spanning 4-and-a-bit decades. But pink BUNNIES? Must be a combination of donating blood and…
> I met Christa G a couple of years back when we both got bionic legs and ended up at the same physiotherapy clinic. It turns out that she and…
> The Druckladen – Printshop – is a reconstruction of Gutenberg’s original workshop providing a “hands on” experience for anyone who wants to get their fingers dirty.
> Hans-Josef Schwarz reckons that he’ll have to up his roasting schedule to compensate for our being back. If he keeps making espressi like the 2 doppio I had…
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