My Daily Banana

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Wide open countryside where I can see the horizon, that's the countryside I have learned to love.

Event of the Day:

7th July 1947

The Roswell Incident

An alien ship lands near Roswell, New Mexico. Little green aliens came from outer space to greet mankind.

7th July 2005

Four bombs were brought to explosion in London's Transport System killing fifty-six and injuring over seven hundred. The middle east war arrived in the United Kingdom.

Birthday of the Day

(a very fruitful day):

7th July 1978

Jan-Erik Petersen

Jan with Gretje in his arms
May 2014

Kirsty's hubbie and the father of Fentje Hailey, Martje Sommer and Gretje Amber.
Have a nice day Jan!

7th July 1880

Otto Frederik Rohwedder

An American; he invented a machine that sliced bread and on the 7th July 1928 it was first pit to use in the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, United States.

7th July 1940

Richard Starkie aka Ringo Starr

The drummer of the Beatles;
I have seen his son Zack playing live in Kiel, Germany; at the time he played for the Who.

Died on this Day:

7th July 1930

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Scottish author and doctor. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859 and died in East Sussex, England at seventy-one years old.

His most famous work was Sherlock Holmes, the morphine and cocaine using master detective.

Thoughts:

Today I did something that turned my face red. Heike and I were sat at our favourite café drinking our favourite cappuccino; I was in a talkative mood and a little over zealous. Two, whom we know from Niebüll, we are on greeting terms, arrived also at the café for a coffee. I blurted out "Where's the wall sign gone?“ They looked at me lost and wondering what the hell does this person want from us?

You'll also be wondering what I'm writing about: the story: the pair are one of our local pharmacists and own a chemists across the road from the café. During the last three weeks the entrance to the chemist has been redeveloped and during this refurbishing the antique sign "Jacobi" had been removed. The sign was from an owner of the chemist in times long gone by and until now the current owners had not removed it. For me it was part of the building and for them it was just an old sign.

I came out with the question thinking they would immediately know what I was on about, but they didn't so I felt the proper idiot and had to apologize for being so forthright.

In my thoughts I'm back in Lincoln, here are some photos from my first stroll after fifteen years of abstinence:

Sincil Bank
What wonders me is: why the façade of these terrace houses are built of limestone not like all the rest that have a red brick façade

A normal door and two midget doors.
Doesn't it look grubby having the dustbins on the path in front of the house?

I love terrace houses with bay windows

These look well kept, but with bay windows I would like them better

Terrace houses in the Robey's area

Robey's one of the heavy industrial factories founded in the nineteenth century

They built steam engines and in the Second World War aircraft for Sopwith's

The once imposing entrance
Here's a video showing how the workers streamed into the factory back in 1900:
Employees at Robey's Works, Lincoln (1900)
The video is blocked in Germany, I don't know about the rest of the world; try it