New cat in town

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Not even a year ago, we got a new kitten. Henry wasn’t quite new but our house was new to him and everything was exciting and worth observing to him.

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New things can tire a little cat out, so once he was sure it was safe, he fell asleep.

He’s grown since then and even has his own blog  (being a cat he has staff so he doesn’t write it himself).

For A Photo A Week: Something newMore new photos or photos of something new can be found on Nancy Merill’s photography site.

My blog runneth over

… because. books.

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Open bookcases where anyone can take or bring books are seen all over the place these days. Sometimes they are found in sturdy cupboards,

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sometimes in display cabinets,

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often they are built into old telephone boots.

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There are always people perusing the shelves to see if some book whets their appetite.

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And sometimes they leave already poring over the first pages of their new reading material.

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Some readers need a proper place and other creature comforts before they settle down with a book.

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Some people need company, even if it is inanimate.

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A sculpture of a reading girl in front of a bookstore in Michelstadt,

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and another one in front of the public library in Ladenburg.
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And this is Peter Schöffer.

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Who was he?  You heard of Johannes Gutenberg who invented movable type printing.  But he had help – hardly any great inventor can do without – and today we recognise that Peter Schöffer of Gernsheim was more than an assistant but a highly educated inventor in his own right who improved on Gutenberg’s design and was to a large extent responsible for the economic success of book printing and thus the spread of books to the masses.

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: books and paper.

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Reach for the digestif

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How many people does a building need to ingest before it will start digesting?

The building, known as Stadttor (City Gate), is an office building in Düsseldorf. From 1999 until 2017 the seat of the state-chancellery of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westfalia was situated here but after the last election the offices were moved back into their former location.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Archtecture digestif.