Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt

Let’s Celebrate!

as soon as it is possible

I came across this slogan (or wishful thinking) on the information board of a little town last year which had to forego celebrating its 1225th birthday.

Hopefully, we will see lots of signs with opening times rather than take away menues in the not-to-distant future.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Open

Breakfast Time

A friend of ours who is a baker with his own bakery bakes more than 10 different kinds of bread weekly, plus 8 speciality breads which are baked on special occasions and for market days (regular weekly markets as well as annual festivals and medieval markets). In other words: bread is very important here and breakfast time is – more often than not – time for bread:

Somehow Germans took the line from the Lord’s Prayer “give us this day our daily bread” literally.

Nourished by the soil, 
threatened by frost, 
watered from the sky, 
this  is how our bread is grown.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Breakfast

		

Telling Sweet Little Lies

The Fastnachtsbrunnen (carnival fountain) in Heppenheim features the figure of Till Eulenspiegel, a well-known figure of German folklore. He was known as a liar and prankster who often exposed failings in people, particularly those in higher office.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Liars

It Must Be All the Wine

The people living in the Rheinland, the area on both sides of the middle section of the river Rhine, are said to be jolly, fun-loving, and generally full of joie de vivre. In Koblenz they have a sculpture of two people illustrating a well-known verse of a regional writer who wrote hunourous poems.

The market-woman to the officer:
"Believe me I'm patient but
My husband has been peed on
by our neighbour's mutt."

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Jocularity.