> That’s what they call it in Yorkshire – unfiltered drippings from roast meat. The rest of the civilised world knows it as “bread and dripping” Around here, it’s romantically…
> Not that I understand much about this stuff, of course, but it is That Time Of Year again, when the local newspaper reports on Karneval to the virtual exclusion…
> Rituals are important. When you go to a Mainz 05 game, there’s a fixed procedure: Get there an hour early Get a beer Discuss strategy with whoever’s within earshot…
> ..I think I shall be reincarnated as Joachim Brohm. (I could even keep my initials.) He’s a well-known (in Germany) photographer of industrial wastelands and marginal zones and the…
> 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…
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