Each morning on my way to work I pass a home for the handicapped. Between the buildings and the road is a stretch of green grass with a little stable and goats. I know it’s spring when I see baby goats scamper about, and this … Continue reading Another Sign of Autumn
This is Markus Weber, a comedian who does his show in our local dialect. This was at a show in August.
Monday Portrait
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The author of the Gruffalo is English, the illustrator is German. The Gruffalo is beloved by children around the world. And the publisher of the books is situated in my home town, a fairly well-known publisher of children’s books (many of them with the obligatory … Continue reading The German Home of the Gruffalo
We live in a new apartment building with seven units. Our neighbour next door is an old farm, with the barn, the yard, and the house. When we moved in ten years ago, the farm was already not a working farm anymore. The old farmer … Continue reading Next Door Neighbours
or panem et circenses Last on the camera SD-card: Where German bakers go to learn more about baking bread. Last on the phone SD-Card: Where a German child left their fire engine. Last on the Card in September
It is closed now but the windows still display a small crown on top of the painted frame and the sign, a wrought-iron crown still hangs outside. Monday Window
Silent Sunday
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A sequoia is exotic in Germany. But Weinheim has so many of them that they call their forest “Exotenwald”. The pebbles have accumulated on Holy Island (Lindisfarne). I thought the cairns had a cultural or historical significance but no! people just like to make little … Continue reading From Mammoth to Pebble
The old cemetery of our town. With no less (and no more) than four local celebrities: an industrialist with a legacy of one of the richest families in Germany today, a progressive educationalist who founded a school, an almost forgotten author who was quite famous nationwide in 1923, and a revolutionary innkeeper from almost 200 years ago.
It’s nice to have maps around to show you what’s what and possibly who’s who.
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