Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

Slimy Halloween

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I’ve been watching a few re-runs of “Friends”. There is this episode where Robin Williams and Billy Crystal have a cameo appearance. Crystal asks Williams about his wound and Robin Williams, talking with an unplaceable accent keeps lisping (lithping): “It’s oothing, it’s oooothing.” I alsways invisaged it like this.

#23 for Tourmaline’s Halloween Challenge: Slime.

The life ahead

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For many children the first day of school is a day of joy and great expectations.

Some are more nervous than others, picking at their “Schultüte” (large cornet of cardboard filled with sweets and little presents given to children in Germany on their first day of school).

While others are simply overwhelmed with impending doom when they realise what the next 13 years of their lives will look like.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Impending.

Kind of incongruous

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In the back is a freight train, 20th century technology transporting 21st century goods. And in the foreground are the remains of a villa rustica, a farming estate from almost 2000 years ago when the Romans were settling in the area.

The villa was only discovered in the 1980s although it is a built up area. I was very impressed with the layout and the swimming pool as well as the underfloor heating.

Square 24 for the KindaSquare Challenge in October.

Have a bembel or two

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Äppler

Traditionally, the local cider is served from these jugs. They are called “Bembel” and are typical for the area around Frankfurt in Germany. They are grey with a blue glaze but more importantly if you drink a lot of the Äppler, as the cider is called, you end up “glazed” or in the local vernacular: “blue”.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Grey turns to blue.