Spring
Easter 2022
… and Passover, and Springtime. I hope you’re having a wonderful, sun-filled, relaxing weekend! This is how Easter Sunday started hereabouts:
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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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An Alphabet of My Likes and Dislikes: “F”
This is a post belonging to a new blogging project — the title is pretty much self-explanatory, I think; the project’s introductory post can be found HERE. Credit for the idea: BeetleyPete. As always, the only thing linking the two items mentioned in this post in my mind is that they both start with the […]
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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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“Lockdown”? — Tell me again Germans are supposed to be law-abiding as a rule …
I went for a short walk earlier this afternoon (alone, of course) — the kind of thing we’re still allowed to do to maintain a modicum of exercise and intake of fresh air. This is what our street looked like — and what it, and all the streets in our neighborhood have been looking like […]
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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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Summer Temperatures – in April.
This is insane. We’re in April — and not so long ago, we were still battling winter temperatures. Well, if previous instances of the same pattern are anything to go by, that means we’d better enjoy these temps right now, because they won’t be making much of a reappearance in summer … Original post: […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 6 – Bodhi Day
Tasks for Bodhi Day: Post a picture of your pet, your garden, or your favourite, most peaceful place in the world. Hello Mom — why are you sitting at your desk? Can’t we please go play? There are all those treats that are calling for me to hunt them … And: Our garden … an […]
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Bibliophile Easter Eggs 2015
… courtesy, mostly, of an extended visit to the new Foyles flagship store in Charing Cross Road, plus Easter gifts, plus assorted other places: Everyman Library Classics – London Stories Simon Callow – Charles Dickens Paula Byrne – The Real Jane Austen Bill Bryson – The Mother Tongue Mikhail Bulgakov – A Country Doctor’s Notebook […]
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