Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt

Living it

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I had lived in South Africa for a couple of years when I went back home to visit my mother and walking about our old town with its medieval towers and the baroque castle and the 1000-year- old castle ruin on the hill I suddenly realised that in Johannesburg the oldest building I could come across was barely 50 years old. Whereas in my old home history seemed to stare at me from every corner, my new home seemed devoid of it.

Which is of course, the wrong definition of history. I saw the height of the fight against apartheid, I saw the end of this terrible system (even helped in the tiniest amount – I served tea to a few of the protagonists). I lived through history. Today, this is history. So much so that a statue of one of the heroes of the time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, stands surrounded by gravestones and garden ornaments in the lot of a stonemason in a little town in the Odenwald and is instantly recognised.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: History.

I’m coming home again and again

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When I see these two castles in the distance, I know I’m coming home. No matter what the weather, no matter what time of the year, or even what year it is. I lived in different parts of the world for more than 30 years but these two castles always spelt home for me.



Weinheim is known as the Two Castle Town. so much so that we even have a cookie cutter with their silhouettes.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Homecoming.

Come Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me

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Not having any tippy-toes on file (and my own being unpresentable in the middle of winter) I thought I needed some colour in my life.

It seems, once the tulips are out (not yet this year!) the temptation to tiptoe through them is a great one.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tiptoe.

Calm down!

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If you hold still for a second we will be able to identify you better!

There you go: Pieres brassicae. Cabbage butterfly. Kohlweißling.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Cabbage.

To fear or not to fear

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Attention
In case of an approaching thunderstorm immediately leave the open-air ground and take cover in a building protected by a lightning conductor.  
GREEN
Zeus comes from the Greek mythology.
We always want to risk it.
Rain, thunder, hail and lightning.
We do not fear the cold weather.
(NB: The words kind of rhyme.  There are spelling and grammar mistakes in the German text; I found it in a scouting location in Switzerland.)

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lightning.

Forward position

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This is Josh Strauss, a South African born rugby forward who became elligible to play for Scotland only a month prior to the Rugby World Cup 2015 in England and Scotland. The photos were taken at the RWC match Scotland vs South Africa in Newcastle.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Forward.