My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the day:

Planting spuds

 

Ploughing the field

Planting? or Sowing the potatoes

The rows are heaped to stop the potatoes coming to the surface, where they turn green

 

Word of the day:

Paloma

Is Spanish for dove, it‘s also a tequila based cocktail

One part tequila

Three parts grapefruit soda

Served on the rocks, with a wedge of lemon or lime.

Name of the day:

Ozzie

Pet name given to someone with the name Oswald, Osborn

Event of the day:

5th May 1905

The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.

This reminds me of a book that I read in German from Caleb Carr „Die Einkreisung". It was historic crime novel placed in New York around the beginning of 1900. Integrated in the crime story he described the methods of criminology in that time of history and the first usage of fingerprints to solve a crime. The book is well worth reading in English it’s called (now I have to use Google) „The Alienist"

 

The Fingerprint

 

The "Who Dun IT"

　

Birthday of the day:

5th May 1948

in Aston, Birmingham, England

Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter (Black Sabbath and Mythology)

What a great music Black Sabbath played (when they were young). It was music to get high on, it’s very cynical with thunder, rain and sharp guitar riffs. The voice of Ozzi Ozborne still had its youthful touch not as broken and scratchy as nowadays.

Black Sabbath as I remember them

Died on this day:

5th May 2011

in Perth, Western Australia

 

born 2rd March 1901

in Pershore, Worcestershire, England

Claude Choules

The last British-Australian WWI veteran. Born in Worcestershire, England, his family with him immigrated to Western Australia in 1911, where he lived until died in 2011. He joined the Fleet at fourteen and seventeen he witnessed the downfall of the German fleet at Scapa Flow (the narrow channel between the northern point of Denmark and the south of Norway)

Claude when he joined up at fourteen

Claude Choules

Cycle ride of the day:

Cold, man it was cold. The round was good though, I even took a short detour.

In the last few weeks I’ve so much in my mind. This blog is an inspiration, I think of my life, I write (mostly English,; that’s something I haven’t done for years) and I’m always on the lookout for a motive to photograph. Sometimes it gets a little bit queasy, I concentrate more on my motives than on my cycling.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/493108531

Look at the bulge, that's what I'm fighting against

The Challenge:

Here we go, now it’s time to lay our cards down.

Challenger I Raymond weight 97.8 kg
(Howzat? 2.3 kg in one week.)

Challenger II Fraser weight 98 kg
(Fraser; you've got to combined your eating habit with sport, then it'll work wonders)

Challenger III Andrea weight 89.6 kg
(that's not much Andrea, you've got to try)

The prize of the week goes to ???

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day