This private letterbox pays hommage to a time when correspondence was different: delivered by postal riders, announcing their arrival by horn. Ironically, this form of correspondence is about to go the way of the old postal service, just as the horses became obsolete. No more post horn, no more fancy letterboxes.
FOWC with Fandango: Correspondence
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On 6 June 1991 South African laws changed and allowed adoption across the “colour bar” as it was called. Exactly a week later we had a long meeting with our social worker at her home and after several hours we proceeded to the Princess Alice Adoption Home where we were told six baby boys waited for parents. Would we like to pick one? (Explanation: this was NOT standard practice by Johannesburg Child Welfare but several mishaps along the way had led to that unique situation.)
This is my husband and one of the social workers with two of the babies.
Two days later, we were parents! And 15 months later, we adopted a second boy.
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When I showed the little slow worm for Wordless Wednesday I didn’t think I would post other photos of our encounter in a hurry. Along comes Fan’s FOWC prompt and here it is again, gravel and all. Title explanation: A common slow worm is known … Continue reading Gravel with Appendix
Forty years ago we did a lot of hiking in South Africa. Here we are at the outset, distributing the food amongst our backpacks. We didn’t need to carry tents because we slept in rock shelters where others have slept before us. FOWC with Fandango: … Continue reading Hiking in South Africa
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When Yakov brought an egg and wasn’t prepared to share, Vassily and Maiya jumped him. And when Alexandr joined in, it quickly turned into a melee. Oh, that should be meerkat, of course. FOWC with Fandango: Melee
FOWC with Fandango: Spare
even if it is called the Black Forest. FOWC with Fandango: Forest
The Institute for Physics at the University of Heidelberg has had its first dedicated professor in 1752. It has moved several times during its existence, the photo below is from the 1850 building in the centre of Heidelberg’s historical town. Here Robert W. Bunsen and Gustav R. Kirchhoff established the scientific method of spectral analysis. With their spectroscope they discovered hitherto unknown elements, namely Caesium and Rubidium. Most people have heard of Bunsen because of the burner he developed and which carries his name.
Today the insitute has long moved to a modern building in a different surburb but they are still doing groundbreaking research. The institute – together with the Max-Planck-Institute Heidelberg – is devoted to fundamental questions concerning the dynamics of quantum systems at the borderline between few-body and many-body physics.
If you don’t know what they are doing, join the club. Alternatively, you can research it.
Today seems quite a scientific day, what with the Ragtag prompt being elliptical. Since the plaque about the door of the Institute is an oval – mathematically an ellipse – I use the opportunity for a double dip.
FOWC with Fandango: Research and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Elliptical
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Whenever I hear the word emergency I have to smile. I had a Swiss friend who kept pronouncing it something like emmer-tchen-see. The rest of his English was actually quite good but he kept insisting on pronouncing it this way, he even had a custom made t-shirt with the German spelling of his pronunciation on it: “Emmertschänsie”.
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