> I don’t normally PhotoShop, but these endless grey skies are getting on my wick….. What DOES, of course, brighten up everyone’s lives is the fact that Johannes G…
> And NOW I know why football/soccer players are overwhelmingly overcome by gravity and writhe around the pitch in excruciating pain as soon as one of the opposition gets near…
> A very welcome sight at yesterday’s match was this chappy (I think his name’s Bernard…) who turned up midway through the first half (by which time we were leading…
> Excellent! Christoph‘s got hold of 2 tickets for today’s Mainz05 game vs Hanover. Must be do-able – Mainz 10th in the table, Hanover 16th – but Hanover’s got…
> And about time too… TSOW’s back on the market. Until they make another pile of money and decide to disappear to far-flung places to spend it all, that…
> I clear snow and do bits and pieces for the neat 164 year old neighbours across the road. And – as much I enjoy organic wheat beer – I…
> Some readers will doubtless categorise this image of an unfortunate hydrangea blossom as romantic….. Snow Gems (English Sonnet) Snow falls to earth as weightless feather down,slow…
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> Big dump of sloppy snow and freezing rain on Saturday night and now the big Melt has set in. Except that none of the liquid stuff was going down…
>You don’t need to head south of the Alps to experience Bella Italia. Just pop over to Kastel (which is STILL Mainz as far as we’re concerned…..) to Celpro and…
> Unless, of course, a mythical bird of prey turned up and deposited them on the bench in front of the kitchen window. They appear to have been there…
> Technically and artistically, I’m sure I took better photos in 2009. None of them, though, make me drool on my keyboard as this one did Go over here for…
> Need I say more…?
> All the way along, in fact, thanks to the attractive neon tubes. The pedestrian tunnel under the tracks at the Römisches Theater train station. The assorted clutter and detritus…
> 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…
> This is a “Kuhkapelle” or “cow chapel”, a groin-vaulted barn and a fairly common feature of farms in the region. The Romans (of course) had the idea first …
> …give me your answer do” Daisy is a low pressure pattern that was going to bring chaos, pestilence and plagues of locusts down on us. If you believed the…
> It’s not every shopping mall that can boast a MiG21 doing a veeeery slooooow (reminds me of this) barrel roll as one of its attractions. Loop 5 can. NQM,…
> Always a treat and this year especially so, as it’s the last of its kind with the current cathedral organist. The usual moderately geriatric audience with the added attraction…
> Looking over the fields in Ober-Olm to the vineyards that disappear down the hill towards the village. -10ºC last night, more snow at the weekend. Lots of it.
> As a non-snapshot photographer, you’ll occasionally attract funny looks or even threats from folks who don’t understand the law. So I’ve become quite careful. Case in point: The Fennel…
> Christmas isn’t over yet, it appears. I’m all for getting the sparkly stuff stowed away for another year, but apparently Christmas has 12 days, starting from 25 December. I,…
> None of this newfangled fireworks stuff around here on New Years Eve. Unsurprisingly, pyromania appears to be an occupational hazard among ceramicists, and Frank the Potter is no exception.…
> More to come, too Nothing like at Kate’s though
> New Years Eve dinner with Frank the Potter and Mrs Frank the Potter. Trout pate from the Bourgogne with drinks Tomato soup with basil oil. Own tomatoesLemon sorbet…
> “If you don’t like change you’re going to like irrelevance even less” General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army as quoted by Tom Peters in ReImagine I generally…
> Bionade would have voted for you. Makes a change from politicians (of all colours) who woo you with visions of milk and honey and then act asd if you…
> The discount supermarkets in Germany have a huge market share – somewhere over 50%. You might then think that it’s all “pile it high and sell it cheap”…
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…
> In the classic “I say tomato, you say tomato” tradition, we have 1. A subway. Or an underpass 2. A subway. Or a tube. Or a suburban metro railway.…
> In MemoriamTin Shed On Wheels So. Farewell then Tin Shed On Wheels For a while At least Until the Rands Run out And Mme M-D And M. Schwarz return…
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