Tag: #OneWordSunday

Powerful Post

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This sign: “post” meaning post of course, “Kraft” meaning power in German is from a time when post services changed from stagecoaches transporting people and mail to buses transporting people and mail. This bus service (including delivering mail overland) ran from 1904 to the 1950s when the German post office stopped transporting passengers. They tried again in the 2010s to join the burgeoning passenger bus service in Germany but they stopped that business after a few years.

Oh, and I just had to do a Brian and include a music link. PJ Powers and Hotline was the biggest band in South Africa in the 1980s, the first commercially successful crossover band (crossover meaning they had fans with all the different population groups). PJ Powers had (has?) a successful solo carreer afterwards, and international fans might have heard her in the movie “Invictus”. One of the biggest hits was “Jabulani” (meaning “be happy!”), not quite incidentally our eldest son’s middle name.

Jabulani

Oh my, there were a lot more words today.

One Word Sunday: Power

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This photo of the nuclear power station of Biblis is five years old. Three of the four towers were still standing, two were demolished in 2023, one in 2025, and the last one came down in January this year. In the background are a new source of power, wind turbines.

One Word Sunday: Power

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Raise a white sail

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Thanks for the title to Cowboy Junkies and their song by Michael Edward Timmins.

White sails can be important! I’m just reading old Greek myths again. Theseus neglectedto raise a white sail and so his father Aegeus. who awaited his return, thought he was dead and he threw himself from a high rock into the sea, henceforth known as the Aegean. All but for a white sail. Nobody knew how to use a washing machine or what?!

One Word Sunday: White

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