They are watching me.
If you live with a cat you have to get used to being observed, very calmly.
Even when not wielding a can opener, Henry is there, watching me.
But other cats observe me, too.
Sometimes they do it openly.
Sometimes more clandestinely.
Watching is one thing. But most of the time I’m feeling judged as well.
So many signs are forbidding something. (NB: I translated more literally than idiomatically.)
Some signs are wordier than others.
Some are curt but add the forbidding authority to add force.
Some may have an acceptable reasoning behind it.
Some might. Or might not.
Some seem to be put up out of spite. Or maybe not.
So I really appreciate a sign like this.
But even then, some restrictions might be a good idea.
In any case, it might be a good idea to read signs properly
even if only for self preservation.
But the most important sign which I try to follow in my life:
Lens-Artists Challenge: Billboards and Signs
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They can help you hog the drinks! (in this case it was German cider, homegrown, home extracted and fermented).
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This house is said to stand on its head. Its name is “Das Haus steht Kopf” (the house standing on its head) and it actually does.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Flapdoodle
It was in 2019 when I went to the last in person seminar. After teaching German to functionally illiterate learners for over three years I had to take a course on how to teach functionally illiterate learners German. The seminar was in Böblingen, south of Stuttgart, over three consecutive weekends.
It was spring and the weather was beautiful on the first Saturday.
In the centre of Böblingen is a lake and I took the lunchbreak to go for a walk.
I don’t remember much about the seminar but that spring day is still present in my mind.
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I am not a big fan of traditional brass bands so I usually avoid the fest tents at the smaller festivals in the area. The bigger festivals have more tents and cater to different music tastes. But they were selling sausages at the local winegrowers’ festival and we were hungry, so we went in.
We were very surprised by the band on the stage. They looked spiffy but not completely different to the more traditional bands. Their music was wonderful, upbeat and boisterous. They were having a lot of fun.
So were we.
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