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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: ajb95
Date: May 11, 2020, 7:28 am
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You might be able to get back to watching football before most
JCFC, as if the English professional game returns at all this
season, you’ve always got the German pyramid!
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 18, 2020, 3:08 pm
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So football returns in Germany after a long break - and the
captain of Sandhausen lasted just four minutes before receiving
a red card and getting himself suspended.
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 18, 2020, 3:25 pm
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Sunday morning saw me make my now regular virtual visit to
Alloway. The "Sunflowers" theme was appealing and (free this
week from Sydney Carter!) was accessible yet uplifting, while
full use of attractive visuals enhanced the experience.
Suitably encouraged, I pointed my laptop in the direction of
Clevedon Presbyterian's 17th May service, this being the local
church of relatives in New Zealand. The building seems to be
very modern and possibly multi-purpose, the minister (in
open-necked shirt rather than the Alloway clerical collar)
speaking slightly awkwardly from in front of crowded
bookshelves. Despite the distraction they posed, his traditional
and more cerebral sermon (longer by far than the Alloway
address) managed to hold the attention. Indeed the service as a
whole was almost twice as long, though less skilfully produced.
There was an anthem, performed (over-performed for my liking) by
a trained singer, so that the sense was lost. Overall one should
commend the service, though it was sad that the hymns were
performed by a lady soloist (you can only use what you have, of
course) - resulting in a hideously warbled and emasculated
rendition of Blaenwern, normally one of my favourites, both in
terms of tune and words. A good try, but if we are "spairt" the
mouse will be pointing Northwards again next week!
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: May 18, 2020, 5:13 pm
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Still no bees though, despite all the sunflowers!
We have from time to time had a problem with wasps - which took
us a long time to discover. Over a period of a couple of years
we would occasionally have a burning smell in the Church. We
had previously had a near disaster when part of the electricity
supply running in conduit under the floor had overheated but
thanks to the conduit (which in itself had probably contributed
to the overheating) there was no oxygen to allow flames and the
circuit breaker tripped before any real damage was done. So we
were conscious of any burning smells, and it did only seem to
appear when the Church was in use - it didn't normally happen if
folk went in on their own. We considered blaming the Brig
o'Doon Hotel for burning their toast or the gardeners in the
Burns' Monument Garden burning rubbish but it was a fairly
distinctive, though not readily attributed smell. In the end it
all harked back about 20 years when new lighting had been
installed. The installation was a great improvement in
appearance on the old but rather less effective at providing
light and so the installer added a large number of halogen
spot/flood lights - quite high up. It appeared that these
lights were not all awfully well sealed and that the wasps, for
reasons best known to themselves, liked to congregate inside
some of them - and die. When the dead bodies built up they
would start to be cremated by the halogen bulb - when sufficient
bodies had been despatched the cremations would stop for a
while.
Thank you for your comments on the services, I like the short
service and could be quite tempted to stay at home on a Sunday
in future. However, that leads to a problem as the format and
technology behind these short services is different to that for
producing projected images on the screen in the Church - so what
to do when "normality" returns?
With regard to bookshelves I have taken quite an interest in the
tendency for folk speaking from home to position themselves with
bookshelves behind them - such is my nature that the tidier the
bookshelf the more suspicious I am of the speaker.
The Lutheran Church in Germany are now meeting again and
helpfully sent their required procedures to the Church of
Scotland who circulated them to its congregations - like the
Bundesliga I feel the effect would be to produce a fairly
sterile atmosphere. We did have a "virtual" installation of a
new Moderator on Saturday - though with no General Assembly for
him to moderate. The previous Moderator and his wife for the
last seven weeks of his term had returned to their manse (in
Morningside) and gave morning reflections on the website which
my BLFG and I enjoyed watching - particularly Ruth's
contributions.
Neil's preaching style is quite light but pleasant and now he
has realised that his "jokes" dinna work in an empty Church
(perhaps the offer of canned laughter got that message home) and
his accepting the concept that looking at the camera is a good
thing to do, he comes across very well I think.
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: bmb
Date: May 19, 2020, 6:23 am
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--- Quote from: Microscopist link ---
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> With regard to bookshelves I have taken quite an interest in
the tendency for folk speaking from home to position themselves
with bookshelves behind them - such is my nature that the tidier
the bookshelf the more suspicious I am of the speaker.
>
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Not sure what my bookshelves would say about me, most books
upright but with piles of books lying flat in front of them and
all manner of junk shoved in around them! Tidiness is not a
strength of mine!
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Microscopist
Date: May 19, 2020, 4:18 pm
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Ref Watcher
Date: May 20, 2020, 4:20 am
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That picture has made me feel a touch more comfortable with
mine! I did notice yesterday that I have a number of worthy
tomes visible over my left shoulder when on video calls, while
the rather more commercial offerings are out of sight to my
right. No planning has gone into this happy state of affairs.
#Post#: 17591--------------------------------------------------
Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: Ashington46
Date: May 20, 2020, 5:31 am
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Interesting to see the comments about bookshelves because I
owned a specialist book business for 25 years and I used to find
that some customers always managed to put a book back exactly
where it had been on the shelf, whereas, a great number either
did not slot it back somewhere on the shelf or even left it on
the floor. I never did work out why they left them on the floor,
however, I and my staff used to spend quite a bit of time
sorting them out. Fortunately, none of us suffered from any
syndrome --imagine what that would have been like!
Anyway, suffice to say that it is an individual choice how you
use your bookcase so do as you please because it doesn't really
matter!
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: bmb
Date: May 20, 2020, 9:59 am
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--- Quote from: Ref Watcher link ---
>
> That picture has made me feel a touch more comfortable with
mine! I did notice yesterday that I have a number of worthy
tomes visible over my left shoulder when on video calls, while
the rather more commercial offerings are out of sight to my
right. No planning has gone into this happy state of affairs.
>
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I know that feeling! I have a large bookcase that has books the
right way up along every shelf, then books on their side in
front of those nice neat rows, other books shoved on top on the
nice neat rows along with folders, loose paper and goodness
knows what else slotted into any spare gap! I have a smaller
bookshelf that sits next to it, right beside my desk that has
all my Hungarian textbooks, cook books, history books etc shoved
in wherever I can fit them! There's also a Hungary flag, scarf
and football shirt squeezed in there as well. My Lilák shirt is
hung up the other side of my desk! This thread did prompt me to
count the current number of books on my bedside table - 57!
There's another 30 odd on the windowsill and about 500 in boxes
in a cupboard! I never get rid of books!!
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Re: The Wurst is yet to come : generally jaundiced jottings from
German jaunts.
DIR By: JCFC
Date: May 25, 2020, 7:47 am
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>
> I noted at the end of the service that the text of the hymn
read "Hail him as thy chosen King" while the singers seemed to
be saying "blessed King." I was not familiar with either, having
always known the phrase as "matchless King," and one of my early
work colleagues used that term whenever he required a light from
somebody (not me!)
>
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Listening to the repeat, I was doubtless wrong - I suspect that
the congregation was indeed singing "mätchless" in a most
refined accent!
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