> ….and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. (I’ve always liked Genesis. Especially the pre-Phil Collins era…) Verily it was good, too. The Lux…
> At some stage, the littlies at the St Stephan Catholic kindergarten in Gonso were provided with buckets of paint and brushes and instructed to a) not make a mess…
> Europe’s different to a lot of other places. Folk tend to stay put, rather than pack everything up and relocate to greener pastures at the drop of a hat.…
> So Helen pops her head out of the front door and thinks: “Fog? It wasn’t foggy earlier on”. Then she smells the burning and notices the chappy frantically banging…
> ..this is how I would see things. With my fish I.
> Serious stuff, this apple picking business at Appel Happel in Lerchenberg. Following the mantra “Never carry more than you eat” (or is it the other way round?), we get…
> ..in the Big City, says the lady with the husky voice at the start of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (on XM) This isn’t even a little city.…
> The Happel family has been growing and selling fruit from their farm just over in Mainz-Lerchenberg for ages and a day. The name? Not a clue. Probably an Anglophile…
> The annual wine festival in Hechtsheim, another of one of Mainz’s once-was-a-village-but-it-got-gobbled-up suburbs, last weekend. Not a lot to recommend it – the wine’s so dire that you ask…
> Folks on occasion turn up at Ms jb’s office in the Vertical Village with gifts. Often it’s unadulterated bribery (“Can I have an apartment please?”. “Can you open my…
> At the moment, anyway. It links the path along the Rhine with Mainz-Weisenau, one of Mainz’s once-was-a-village-but-it-got-gobbled-up suburbs. I read somewhere that there are moves afoot to tear it…
> The “Economist” said last week that ““DON’T WALK” signals hypnotise German pedestrians even when no car is in sight.” Don’t believe a word of it. Around here, everyone subscribes…
> The delightfully leafy suburb of Gonsenheim at stupid o’clock in the morning. (If I’d tried this stunt yesterday, Helen would have had to jump into the fray as your…
>People get carried away by this Euro 2008 business. (Some are blissfully unaware of its existence, but that’s another story…) Overnight, park benches (these are at the Vertical Village) appear…
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