Five Picks in Alphabetical Order
This Wood Is Made for Sitting
When Germans are on the wrong track, they call it “being on the wooden path”. In my hometown, we even have road named accordingly.
If you find yourself in such a predicament, why keep going? Find a place to sit down and relax. Preferably on a wooden bench.
And in case it takes a bit longer, make sure you have a good book on you to pass the time.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything Made of Wood
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The Difference
between Irish beer drinkers
and Bavarian beer drinkers.
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Wheel that Barrow!
Wheelbarrows as art: painted on a length of hoarding, and hanging as an art installation, possibly.
Wheelbarrows as miniatures: with pebbles, and with a enjoyable load.
Wheelbarrows being worked hard: by a market stall holder and my favourite little worker of all.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Words ending with a W
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Look Back in Brevity
Reminiscing about the past year, I found many quotes meaning “never look back” (from such notable thinkers as Justin Bieber and the like). I don’t agree with this sentiment.
Then there were the quotes that “one needs to look back to go forward” from a quite few more renowned men and women. I rather agree – how can one learn anything without looking at it? – yet I’m also worried about stagnation and lack of drive.
And then I found this uncredited maxim:
It’s okay to look back at the past, just don’t stare.
Who is going to tell him?
Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays: Looking Back on 2022
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Weakness or Strength?
Castle Wildenstein is a spur castle, i.e. a castle built on a mountain peak as a fortification. It was built in the 13th century in the Swabian Alb, above the young Danube. Access is through a high wooden bridge on some spindly looking pillars.
This fortitude against capture would also be a weakness if the (small) army besieging the castle had enough time on its hand (and no one would come to the aide of the beleaguered castle inhabitants).
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