Monthly Archives: August 2015

Sailing close to the wind…..

Posted on 24 August, 2015 by jb

Especially after she says ” STOP!” at 00:54

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Michael Clarke

Posted on 23 August, 2015 by jb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=322&v=rDh5HiS5XPQ Most of the people reading this will have no idea what it’s all about, but here we go anyway. Michael Clarke is the current Australian cricket captain, retiring at the end of the current tour of England, badly out … Continue reading →

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You know you’re in France……

Posted on 23 August, 2015 by jb

….. when a small-ish supermarket in a small town just over the border has heritage (Black Crimean) tomatoes in the veggie section and the till automatically sorts and groups the wine you’ve bought into appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC) – controlled … Continue reading →

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Ich kenne nichts…

Posted on 22 August, 2015 by jb

This ties in with the “Best concert? Close” post from the other day. My friend Petrea wrote: What a pleasure. I watched the whole thing; don’t need subtitles because I love listening to languages. All of them. And the music … Continue reading →

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Best concert? Close….

Posted on 20 August, 2015 by jb

Hubert von Goisern is an Austrian musician, giving traditional folk music a harder, rockier edge. It goes under the genre of Alpenrock – Alpine Rock. Excellent live band, but nothing quite as memorable as the Mainz concert in 2008. The … Continue reading →

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Italians! What do you expect…..?

Posted on 19 August, 2015 by jb

   “With washing comes [sic] occasional holes. Embrace the holes as character not as flaws.    And people pay astronomical sums of money for this? After 39 years, I thought I was immune. Appears not. Fuck me……

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Ivor Bolokov, the lopsided Russian

Posted on 19 August, 2015 by jb

Mr Hafiz is the Telex Manager somewhere and has got his hands on almost a million quid that he wants to share with me. This could be an interesting conversation. (He’s blue, I’m red) Dear, I have an important issue … Continue reading →

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Ianduringly delightful

Posted on 18 August, 2015 by jb

When you stumble over stuff like this, you realise how much you miss Ian Dury. I do. anyway Stunningly witty lyrics, all very tongue-in-cheek. And what a lovely man in this Parkinson interview. One of the nicest things he did … Continue reading →

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Microsoft, you are SO bloody useless…..

Posted on 18 August, 2015 by jb

Finally see the light and migrate from XP to Windows 8.1 (€120 in Germany vs $200 in the USA, strangely enough…). Localise it with the English language pack and….immediately get confronted with a welcome screen in …….German. Better still, all … Continue reading →

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A day in Maikammer – Annual Plant Market

Posted on 16 August, 2015 by jb

      

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