A forcibly teetotal cherubim (seraphim…?) on the Osteiner Hof.
“I’ll snuffle anyway” Sid at work. Guest photog: Ute Matschke
…better than I can. (That’s “Fall” for the colonials…) My friend (and client, but more friend than client..) Ute Matschke took this with a smartphone. Which just proves that it’s…
Also in Mainz. Also in Rheinland-Pfalz. Also in Germany. Anyway, that’s what the award says that has pride of place on the wall at the Martinstube, slap bang in the…
Raise thine eyes to the heavens and look with wonder at St Stephanus…. Probably has to finish with “I beseech thee” Wouldn’t know…
No “pre-loved rolls” from the day before. No “vintage loaves” at half price. They’ll be up at 3am, firing up the ovens and driving the neighbours crazy with the smell…
..got the t-shirt. Er, shopping bag
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – dig at your peril in Mainz. You’re likely to stumble across a Roman boatyard with the remains of 17 canoes.…
Pipes of the (relatively) new organ at St Stephans. “New” is always relative around here, given that we’re over 2000 years old. And 3 years old is just the blink…
Our neighbour planted a Catalpa bignonioides a few decades ago. It appears to have enjoyed the location, because it grew enthusiastically. It’s a beautiful tree. For 3 days a year,…
Oh. They’re always there? (I’m not paranoid, but I just wish they’d stop following me…)
ZZ Top clones as Rockin’ Santas. At least it’s not “Rockin Santa’s…….. Yet….
People, it’s only mid-October. Why on EARTH are you selling bottles of mulled wine as if the festive season is only a week away. Next thing, they’ll be selling Christmas…
I attended the laying of two Stolpersteine – “stumbling blocks’ – yesterday morning on a cold wet day that was a friend to no-one and which seemed more than appropriate…
Frankfurter Hof in the Altstadt on Tuesday night. You could have taken a feed from the sound desk and issued it untouched. That good.
…twice the light in half the time” Joe Walsh from “Falling Down” Only one end here. St. Stephans
A long time ago (3 years actually, but at my age…), Robin Fullmer wrote to me about a program on a Jewish emigree to New Zealand, I did some research…
Indian Summer in Mainz
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, you’ll be aware that the trickle of refugees from Syria/Eritrea/Libya/Balkans has grown from a trickle to a…
Invitation popped up in the mail the other week to the 10 year celebration of a cluster of ceramic artists’ studios in Höhr-Grenzhausen, a hop, skip and jump down the…
…but heaps of other good stuff… Natural History Museum
Oh. They’re clouds……
Here in Mainz, we’ve progressed from sun clocks to egg timers. I’m sure we’ll see wind-up chronometers within the next millennium….. (This is the world’s biggest and most accurate, gifted…
Don’t recall reading that 8 degrees C were on special offer, but it was rather parky
You know that something’s wrong when buses start thrashing up and down the Gaustrasse, shuttling passengers along the route normally served by trams. Probably “leaves on the track”. No, wait,…
Just don’t ask me how this tree opposite Mitternacht 18 squeezed into this pullover. Or swedderrr, as the colonials call them
This was an option for Thursday. I stumbled over an article by Michael Bermeitinger of the Allgemeine Zeitung dating back a year or so about a humungous chunk of concrete…
My young friend Lena is studying law (but I’ve almost forgiven her for that) She’s spent the last 3 months as a foreign comparative law clerk in a judge’s chambers…
I do love Paul Bonna’s kaffeekommune, but it’s definitely solaristically challenged. Solution: Grab a chair, move to the sunny side of the street. Tony’ll take his life in his hands…
…would have you believe that these are chemtrails, used by the Gummint to geo-engineer [sic] the weather and drug us into submission. All I can tell you is that this…
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