“Gimme back the ball! I want to throw it!! I’m feeling playful!!!” “Look it! Look it! It’s thingy … you know, whatshisname? – WALLY! He is so distinctive!” “Let’s go ride. But let’s swop saddles. This one is more comfortable on a horse.” “They must … Continue reading Sayings with Exclamation Marks
From age 13 to age 18 I was packed off during summer to family friends living in our twinned town in Provence. Cavaillon is known as the capital of melons, and everywhere in Provence are fields of lavender. For me, these two scents – ripe melons and lavender blooms – conjure up innummerable memories.
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Common Scents
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Inspired by Geriatrix’ toilet signs last week I consulted my archive and came up with these:
Arranged according to age:
A Roman toilet from around the 2nd century in a villa rustica near Höchst im Odenwald. The Windeck toilet with a long drop built around 1100 AD in Weinheim. The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim is about 200 younger but features the same kind of jutty toilet. And the simple hole in a stone toilet in Oppède-le-vieux, also from the middle ages.
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At least, it used to be. Aigues-Mortes en Camargue.
Water, Water Everywhere
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Silent Sunday
Twenty years ago we were in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Our boys really really really wanted to see a Corsa camarguenca, a provençal bull fight where the bulls are not killed (just teased and pestered, I suppose).
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This is one of the four statues on the Pont JF Kennedy in Strasbourg, one of the bridges to cross the Ill. The statues all depict workers who do hard manual labour – this is the pelleteur. His job was to clear the waterways from the silt so it would stay navigable for bigger boats. The profession died out in the 1920s.
The bridge was built in 1906 and was then called Schwarzwaldbrücke (pont de la Forêt-Noir / Black Forest Bridge). It has undergone a few name changes, some only because of the change of languages, from German to French and back). It became Pont John F Kennedy in 1965. The locals, however, favour the name Viermännerbruck (bridge of four men, in the local Alsation dialect).
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