A Day in the Life
Cherry Blossoms
One thing that made me grin when surfing social media during my recent hospital stay was this post: — both because of the “World’s Top Destinations” listing and for pitying the hordes of visitors flocking here these days to see the city’s famed cherry blossoms … because very recently it had looked more like they […]
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Also, I thought I’d do without getting yet another pair of holiday socks (and slippers) this year, but then they go and tantalize me with owls and kitties …
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No, I didn’t fall off the planet 3 months ago …
… though I know I’ve given every appearance of having done just that. Let’s just say that it’s been … interesting. Both August and October were insanely busy in RL, chiefly due to a new case concerning a client literally being robbed blind by their former managing director (even after he had been fired once […]
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Winter Storm & Flood
Sooo, the better part of Germany — everything from our general area northward — was hit by a major winter storm over the weekend and has been looking like this ever since: (Image sources here, here, here and here) … as a result of which, trains, planes, and public transport aren’t operational, streets aren’t passable for […]
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The View from My Kitchen Window
#StayatHome blossoms — this is the view from my balcony and kitchen window at the moment. And by way of a bonus image, a pair of ducks (visitors from the banks of the Rhine, which is just a few 100 metres from my home) that were making a ruckus round about the front hedge while […]
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An Easter Walk
… or Passover, or Spring Festival, or whatever else you are celebrating these days. Easter walks are very much a German tradition (Goethe even immemorialized them in his Faust), and it turns out not even the Corona pandemic can do away with this. Unlike last weekend, people were out only (or almost only) in family […]
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I’m just going to leave this here…
My car’s dashboard thermometer, earlier this afternoon. (43°C = 109.4°F) Can I just say I was very glad to be back indoors when I got home?? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1924880/i-m-just-going-to-leave-this-here
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Happy Easter & Passover
… to everybody here on BookLikes. Have a wonderful weekend, whichever holiday you’re celebrating! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1874686/happy-easter-passover
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Those old cheating dissembling tricks …
“To the office, where all the morning sitting and did discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen’s old cheating dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born.” — Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) March 8, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This (originally from Pepys’s diary of March 8, 1666) was the first […]
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Snow
I know friends elsewhere in the world are suffering with Arctic temperatures (and climate) at the moment, but snow is rare enough hereabouts (we only get it a few times, if that, for a day at a time each winter), and I’ve blessedly had time to take a stroll yesterday and enjoy the beauty that […]
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Fancy Food Shopping Splurge; or, the Cats and the Candle
My BFF and I took a trip down to Frankfurt yesterday, to stock up supplies at our favorite tea and spice store; and while we were there, we also took a look at Frankfurt’s newly-restored (pseudo-)medieval quarter (whose medieval buildings were destroyed in WWII and were now finally restored from scratch, some 70+ years later […]
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… oh, look, illustration for the Flat Book Society November group read …
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799078/oh-look-illustration-for-the-flat-book-society-november-group-read The Flat Book Society Project Page Reviews and Blog Posts
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@MbD: A Wild Bee Hotel
… at Hamburg Zoo, with all sorts of different nesting options matching the various bee species’ requirements. Neat, isn’t it? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799070/mbd-a-wild-bee-hotel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Comments on BookLikes:
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Look who I met in Hamburg …
The librarian of the Unseen University! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799065/look-who-i-met-in-hamburg Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape – Terry Pratchett and Discworld Project Page Reviews and Blog Posts
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House Cleaning
… well, figuratively speaking. RL has been both busy and more than just mildly annoying lately, as a result of which I’m behind on everything from updates to reviews to just plain responding to people (sorry!); not to mention that I also still haven’t had time to select and acquire stickers for my super-pretty physical […]
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Germany & Central Europe, seen from the International Space Station
Just had a chance to take my first photos of dried-out Central Europe and Germany since a few weeks, and was shocked. What should have been green, is now all brown. Never seen it like this before. #Horizons pic.twitter.com/o2XoddPdrM — Alexander Gerst (@Astro_Alex) August 6, 2018 Tweet by the current commander of the ISS, German […]
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Payoff for the Summer Heat …
… well, of sorts: These views from my balcony, a few minutes ago. (And yes, it’s dark now, but I’m still sitting outside, savoring the fact that we finally have a tiny bit of a gentle breeze …) Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1780699/payoff-for-the-summer-heat
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Summer in Germany
My car dashboard thermometer, yesterday at 1:55PM — the week before, we’d even been up to 39°C … at 4PM. (That’s 101F and 102F, respectively.) These are temperatures I know from desert areas … Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma and pretty much anywhere else in AZ, Death Valley, El Paso, TX; even Los Angeles. They are NOT […]
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A Summer Saturday Afternoon in “Balconya” …
I have a few busy days ahead of me, so I’m catching what laid back moments I can today — and what better way than with the BookLikes crowd (and entertainment courtesy of my cell phone)? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1774389/post
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