My Daily Banana
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| One Wheel Cycle Banana |
Photo of the day:
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| Family Petersen |
Words of the day:
Spittoons
A vase made or brass or pottery, which is spat into.
Well known from all the western movies, in the saloon it was always on the floor at the end of the bar.
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| Western bar with two spittoons |
German: Spucknapf
Name of the day:
Panzer
German for tank or armour
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| Armoured Tank invented and built in Lincoln |
Event of the day:
4th May 2014
Welt Fischbrötchentag
(World Fish Bun Day)
No one other than the fish heads on the German Baltic coast will celebrate this day, but as they have called upon today to be their „World Fish Bun Day" let us honour it.
I haven’t eaten a fish bun for at least twenty years (it doesn’t fit in my diet, me being a vegetarian). Heike still eats the animal stuff, but some of the fish buns are too expensive. Imagine paying 3.90€ for a shrimp bun? In McDonald‘s you could by a whole meal for that price (or am I wrong here? I haven’t been to McDonald’s for twenty years either).
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| A Shrimp Bun cost: €3.90 |
Birthday of the day:
4th May 1958
Keith Haring
in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died
16th February 1990
in New York City, New York, United States
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| Keith Haring (he died too early) |
Graffiti artist, his work resulted out of the street culture of New York.
With very simple methods he brought life into his paintings. They are very bright and bouncy.
I have three reproduction posters hanging in my living room.
Unhappily he died at thirty-two from aids.
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| The Montreux Jass Festival Poster (this poster decorates my living room) |
Died on this day:
4th May 1984
Diana Dors
In Winsor, Berkshire, England
Born 23rd October 1931
In Swindon, Wiltshire, England
The British equivalent of Marilyn. Blond and busty! She played the sexy comedian in many films, such as „Lady Godiva Rides Again". Also starring in Adam and the Ants musical video „Prince Charming" miming the fairy godmother.
Here is the video:
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| Diana Dors young and pretty |
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| Diana Dors trying to pose like Marilyn |
Cycle ride of the day:
What have you got hidden in your barn? Well on my round I noticed a barn with its doors open, I couldn’t help but have a peek; and what did I spy? An old Mercedes Benz from the sixties. Nice piece of old iron. The way it’s been stored I’d say they’ve ruined it; the rust and the dust of many a day gone by will have eaten its way into car and the fluids will have chocked it from the insides. But it still is a work of art; I love those relics of days gone by.
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| The Barn |
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| Look what's hidden inside |
Der Haupt Straßen Fest:
(The Main Street Festival)
Yesterday we had our Main Street Festival in Niebüll, it’s been a reoccurring festive event for the past twenty-eight years. A must to go to and see!
Bathing through the crowd we stumbled on Kirsty with her family. The big’uns were hungry, tucking into a portion of chips with ketchup. You can see the remains around their mouths.
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| Fentje and Martje tucking in |
Gretje enjoyed the scene on her Papa’s arms. It was nice to see her awake; imagine she’s eleven weeks old already (time flies!).
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| Gretje with Papa |
We stopped to watch a juggler cum jester appeasing the crowd with his talent. He was very good, but the star of the show was Peter Panzer. He’s one of the Mürwicker’s, they are disabled and part of our town. Well the show was about to start and he sat down on one of the jester’s requisites and stayed. He had his binoculars with him, to see what’s happening elsewhere on the Main Street. The jester included Peter into his sketch, great fun.
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| Peter Panzer sussing it out |
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| The street artist with his audience |
Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day
