When I tried to lift up this seemingly deceased victim of my cat it came back to life and flew out of the open doorways in the garden.
I was stunned. The dragonfly was stunning.
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Grandchildren, The Benefit of
They can help you hog the drinks! (in this case it was German cider, homegrown, home extracted and fermented).
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Springtime Seminar
It was in 2019 when I went to the last in person seminar. After teaching German to functionally illiterate learners for over three years I had to take a course on how to teach functionally illiterate learners German. The seminar was in Böblingen, south of Stuttgart, over three consecutive weekends.
It was spring and the weather was beautiful on the first Saturday.
In the centre of Böblingen is a lake and I took the lunchbreak to go for a walk.
I don’t remember much about the seminar but that spring day is still present in my mind.
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Greetings, Adventurer
So starts the preface of The Complete Ankh-Morpork City Guide by Terry Pratchett (aided and abetted by the discworld emporium).
The book itself is one that makes one love books made of paper.
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Somebody Activate Me
I could have chosen one meaning for vegetate: to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind. My mind is in a sufficiently vegetative state today that I won’t even bother to try and find a photo to illustrate that meaning.
So I’m going with the second meaning: to grow in the manner of a plant. This wild mustard and even the shrubs in the back, and the trees are growing in the manner of plants. How else would they grow?
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Don’t Put Your Grandma on the Stage, Mrs Worthington
Some am-dram actors know how to play to the gallery. And shamelessly do so.
Apologies to Noel Coward for the title.
NB: This photo shows me so I didn’t take it, obviously.
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German Children’s Favourite Imp
is called Pumuckl. He comes from a long line of seafaring forebears but has for the time being settled in Munich in the workshop of a carpenter.
He has lived through various mediums over the last 60 years: children’s books, radio serialisaton, long playing records and music tapes, a tv series, a muscial, and now, apparently, crochet.
PS: In Germany it is has been judicially forbidden that parents name their child Pumuckl. Regardless of their hair colour.
PPS: Yes, I did crochet this doll and another one for two of our grandchildren.
And then Arnold Got Ready
and stormed off creating a fracas that reverberated in the whole flock.
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