They are rushing towards each other (note the Italian name “Subito”, “Immediately” on the ship to the left).
Maybe next time they’ll go for a more traditional
FOWC with Fandango: Rendezvous
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Read the Room
and if the room is a square, that’s okay, too. He might be spouting drivel but he is holding a glass of Pfälzer wine while he is pontificating on … well, drivel. And his friend approves.
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Nobody Does It Better
Yellow-bellied sliders, not quite turtles, not quite tortoises.
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Half a Ruckus
I wanted to illustrate not quite a ruckus by showing a rugby ruck. Now my husband (who is the rugby expert in our family) tells me that this is not even a ruck.
Therefore I present: Half a ruckus. A ruc.
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Mountain Goat
I’ve mentioned or shown our “social running group”, the Hash House Harriers, before on this blog. One of the things that I really enjoy is the wide age range we have between us. Many kennels allow children but even kennels that are adult only (by choice or by accident) have runners in their twenties and thirties. There are no age limitations. By now, I’m sorry to say, we belong to the so-called old farts and there seem to be quite a lot of us. The oldest active hasher (i.e. one that goes on trails and doesn’t just sit around and wait for the runners to return) is Skinhead (his hash moniker). He doesn’t run anymore but walks the trails. Last autumn we were were at a place in the mountains of the Southern Black Forest, very steep trails, up and down. He kept walking with the vanguard, usually as the frontrunner -walker, easily outpacing much younger folk. He was 89 then and we are looking forward to seeing him as soon as the weather gets a bit warmer.
PS: We don’t just run (walk) together. We also party well together.
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Don’t Tread on Them
The “Stolpersteine” or “stumbling stones” are a project of the artist Gunter Demnig. They are brass covered cobblestones on pavements outside houses were Germans of Jewish descent used to live. Other persecuted groups are commemorated in this way as well. They are inscribed with their names, their dates of birth and short information what happened to them. This particular family of Luise and Jakob Stern who I found in Rüsselsheim had the parents emigrating to South Africa, where the father died before the end of the war. Their daughter Irva was murdered in Auschwitz.
More than 75,000 stones have been laid in Germany, more in neighbouring countries where the Nazi terror regime was present.
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