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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: April 29, 2020, 5:12 am
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This last weekend offered two windows - they will be running out
soon. Sadly I failed to spot any bees, though i did spy a couple
of butterflies.
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: April 29, 2020, 6:38 am
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Well we have 20 windows in all, though some are smaller so we're
OK yet, and a couple have more than one presentation in them.
No bees in any of them so far as I know - Noah on the cards for
this Sunday.
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: April 29, 2020, 6:57 am
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No wonder I didn't see any bees - I should have been counting
ladybirds!
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: May 3, 2020, 5:34 am
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--- Quote from: JCFC link ---
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> No wonder I didn't see any bees - I should have been counting
ladybirds!
>
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Yep, that would account for it!
Today we have Noah, a rainbow and dove, pouring rain, an Ark, a
lamb, two deer and two domesticated dogs with collars and leads:
but still no bees!
If you look to the right of the minister's shoulder under the
window, there is I think a largish fly, we could pretend it is a
bee, perhaps?
HTML https://www.allowaychurch.org/four-seasons.
HTML https://youtu.be/JQxlSs74vis
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 3, 2020, 7:37 am
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Thanks once again for your efforts in providing this.
I am old enough to recall when the Clyde steamers called at
Innellan, though never disembarked there, and was familiar with
the story of George Matheson. Indeed, I chose that particular
hymn to be played while waiting for the commital at the
crematorium following my mother's funeral in Church - partly
because the tune is St Margaret, and that was her first name.
She would not have claimed to be a saint, but to my mind got as
near as most folks can.
I must say that I do like your minister's delivery: clear and
unpretentious seems an ideal recipe and he follows it perfectly.
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: May 3, 2020, 12:26 pm
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Thank you JCFC, and a lovely tribute to your mother.
#Post#: 17450--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 6, 2020, 4:24 pm
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My laptop has been assiduous in reminding me that today is the
day I was supposed to be flying to Hamburg. The Book of Proverbs
informs us that "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick" but in
fact it can be seen to extend the period of pleasurable
anticipation - possibly for another twelve months.
On a smaller scale the current lockdown suggests that deferring
pleasure has much to commend it. The highlight of the week is
the brief trip to the supermarket, but Old Codgers' Hour sees
one home by 9am, with bedtime a long way off and the week
stretching ahead. I have therefore taken to going after 9pm,
leaving something to look forward to all day. As a further
refinement, I have this evening decided not to go, so will be
able to enjoy the anticipation all day tomorrow as well. So
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow" will be my
motto, but then it possibly always was.
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: May 9, 2020, 10:31 am
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A visit to a supermarket is fast becoming a distance memory, do
they still exist beyond the cyberworld that can cause a van to
appear and groceries - sometimes even what we ordered - to be
deposited on the doorstep?
Meantime my feeling that humans should hibernate in winter is
happening, just a bit out of phase with the seasons and indeed
with the weather which has been and still is glorious. Though
not for long if the forecast is to be believed.
My other motto is never put off 'til tomorrow that which can be
put off to next week, month, year, decade, century or
millennium. Perhaps it is Scottish life rubbing off on me, when
I moved up here from Surrey an ex-weegie colleague told me that
the gaelic language had no word with quite the urgency of
maņana..
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 9, 2020, 11:41 am
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A German article talking of how the restart will be handled for
match officials
HTML http://www.fussball.de/newsdetail/bundesliga-restart-vorkehrungen-im-schiedsrichter-bereich/-/article-id/215382#!/
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: May 10, 2020, 3:46 am
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Two themes close to our minister's heart - The Good Samaritan
and Christian Aid.
HTML https://youtu.be/-rDbj1OIxuQ
As for the window, twelve fruits and a riverside meadow full of
flowers - but still no bees.
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