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I will get more pictures (no rain forecast). For now, here are the sticks the children are going to carry while singing “Schtrih Schtrah Schtroh”, the traditional song on this day. My sister remembers how the sticks are decorated and she still had material at … Continue reading Today we’re going to burn winter
The limit is 20 kmpH in this area! Cellpic Sunday in Hirschberg-Leutershausen
Another find for my “car plates can make words in Germany” collection.

German licence plates are organised like this: the first letters (1 or 2 but not more than 3) indicate the town where the care is registered. Then there are another two letters (sometimes one but this is rare) and a number, usually four digits. Until a 20 years ago or so you just took the letters and numbers you were allocated but nowadays you can pick the letters and numbers for a small fee (something like 10 Euro). The only requirements are that no other plate has the same combination and a few letters and number combinations are forebodden because they have a meaning connected with national socialism).
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For years I’ve been telling our son that he is too careless about energy conservation. He only washes half loads in the washing machine, he overheats his room, he leaves lights on and so on
Now it has happened. I had to tell him that he didn’t switch off his cat.
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I snapped this photo when I passed the local cafè / bakery just after it had started to snow.
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About 10 years ago when I last visited Schloss Alsbach – the ruin of a fortified castle in the Hessian Odenwald overlooking the Upper Rhine Valley – there was just a pillory for tourist amusement standing in the otherwise empty yard. When our running group … Continue reading Beekeeping in the Middle Ages
If it wasn’t Banksy – then … who? Cellpic Sunday