>Not happy days around here. Mainz 05 has to win their last two games (which might actually include the requirement to score goals, something for they haven’t shown much aptitude…
>Gloria Hasse (left) runs an excellent ceramics gallery from her home near Darmstadt, which is waaay out of my authorised reporting zone, so I shouldn’t really even be mentioning it.…
>This says “You can do handstands for all I care – no card, no ciggies” I gave up smoking 30-odd years ago, so I’m not really up to speed on…
>Bit (crikey – if THAT’s not an understatement…) of controversy over here regarding the Bush administration’s plans for a missile defence system with tracking radar and interceptors based in Eastern…
>They call it the innovative stylish car from Daimler-Chrysler. It’s pretty much the Edsel of the 90s and cost the CEO (along with a couple of other disasters) his job.…
>Germany’s a pretty organised place. More rules and regulations than you can shake a stick at. (At which you can shake a stick…? Kate?) And many of which you can…
>offeWe have 3 tree peonies in the garden – a double purple, this single yellow and one of unknown form and colour. Someone pruned it back a few years ago…
>Depending on where you’re from, it’s Green herb sauceSauce verteSalsa verde Around here, its dialectic pronunciation is Grie Soß. Claimed by those folks over in Frankfurt, actually, but we’ll ignore…
> Welcome to Anywhereville. With 2 exceptions, these pictures are within a 5 minute walk of each other. And 4 are right next to each other. I kid you not.There’s…
>This is Lydia Bugner, our asparagus lady, in her clinically clean asparagus garage. They pretty much only work to order, so when they get back home shortly after stupid o’clock,…
>but it’s quite a thing over here at the moment. I’ve heard of this programme, but it’s not the sort of thing I watch. It’s called “Looking for Germany’s Superstar”…
>Google “Billy Crash” and you’ll get page after page of Billy Crash Craddock. Our Billy Crash is the nom-de-plume for Martin Kijaszek, a local hero who writes and sings rock…
>….of how things used to be Those are lyrics to a song I know and I can’t for the life of me think what it is. This really is pretty…
>Home away from home for the last couple of days. Duff quality, but I actually forgot to ask the ambulance crew to get the Nikon while they were strapping me…
>LadderCoefficient of friction = 03 metresGravity ParamedicsNeck braceStrapped to a stretcherSuspected spinal/neurological injuriesER at University Clinic in MainzCT scanX-rays 2 broken ribsConcussion Overnight imprisonment for observation3 roommates, all members of…
>May I introduce you to Simon (8) and Sophie (6) Weil, our neighbours and friends from up the road, They’re great kids. You’d like them. It was Simon’s First Communion…
>This was worth the wait. And it’s worth two pictures. Moan if you want to. I don’t care. The Bugner family in our village still grows asparagus the way it’s…
>Nanette Scriba is a true local heroine around here. She was born here, her Dad was organist at the Johanniskirche and she lives bang in the middle of the Old…
>Mention the Ritterstrasse to anyone in Mainz with a miniscule sense of aesthetics and you’ll generally be swamped by the effusiveness of their descriptive skills. And it really is something…
>This lady makes the most wonderfully delicate spring flower bunches on the Saturday market in Mainz. They look so light, you’d think they’d float on air.Lilac blossom, roses, vibrantly green…
> Spent most of the other day with my mate, Frank Jung, the potter, shooting some images for an upcoming article that a flash lifestyle magazine wants to run on…
> There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! It’s not so very, very far away; You pass the gardner’s shed and you just keep straight ahead. I do…
>Mum spent her first 30-odd years in north England, the next 40-some years in sub-tropical Auckland and then moved to Nelson in her 70s. Which has occasional frosts.“It’s great to…
>This is a really cool business concept. Instead of growing sugarbeets (which are losing their EU subsidies as we speak) or cereal crops, farmers around here have moved to growing…
>Actually, the Faces “Flying” would have been more appropriate. (And Rainer Fetting, the artist, would no doubt have approved. After all, he did title it “Der Flug” – “The Flight”)…
> Who’s there? Lilac. Lilac who?Lilac anything if someone asks your age….. The market in Mainz this morning was full with a mixture of what should be seasonal produce at…
>“Rape, murder” Merry Clayton. 2:42 into the Stones’ “Gimme shelter“ Then she rips in with “It’s just a shot away, it’s just a shot away” And Charlie Watts thwacks a…
>Here’s our good friend Johannes Gutenberg keeping an eye on the Mainz State Theatre – the Staatstheater.(It used to be called the City Theatre – Stadttheater – but obviously got…
>Some lyrically describe the Augustinerstrasse as Mainz’s 5th Avenue or Champs Elysee. Well, yes…. It’s an excellent place, but it’s somewhat short on width to compare favourably with those two.…
>It’s too dangerous up there – I’m staying down here where it’s safe…
>I’m hijacking this post for a good cause. I hope for your understanding. (This is the 50th Parallel, by the way. Runs bang through the Gutenberg Square in front of…
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