
“Melancholy is not a bad thing.” (Sting)
Yes, that’s a resting bitch face. No annoyance or irritation. Unless –
it’s about the small rest of wine in the glass.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bromide



On my recent bike trip I came across a so-called “Skulpturenpark” in Bad König im Odenwald.
It’s an untidy plot of land next to an industrial site in the back of the local spa garden. There are quite a lot of sculptures scattered over the plot, most of them are quite whimsical, in three or four distinctive styles and by as many artists, I think.
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.