My Daily Banana

 

Photo of the Day:

A small flower usually ignored.

Event of the Day:

15th June 1965

Bob Dylan records Like a Rolling Stone

Like a Rolling Stone 

The link is a medley of two Dylan songs Maggie's Farm and Like a Rolling Stone

15th June 1968

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy from the Ohio Express reaches number four in the Billboard Charts

Birthday of the Day:

15th June 1941

Harry Nilsson
 

An American singer/songwriter who brought out some good schmoozy songs such as Without You and the theme song from the film Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman Everybody's Talkin'. Another song that I like which he recorded is Coconut, it's nice and swingy!

Died on this Day:

15th June 1996

Ella Fitzgerald

 at the age of 78.

Thank you Ella, for soft and mellow jazz music that you made.

Thoughts:

The weather is like a slice of bacon today, streaky. It's cloudy and then it's sunny, it's warm and then it's  cool, the wind blasts and then it lulls, the cappuccino is too hot to drink and then it's too cold. No, no stop your being silly, it's an everyday usual day a day to put a long sleeve shirt on and sit in the shade of the wind; on the lee side (you remember physics or was it the sailing course? Luv and lee, wind side and shade side.)

Oh man, a young Russian family has just moved in next door. New people to get used to, that's one thing that isn't nice about living in a rented apartment, the moving frequency is very short. In our block there are six apartments, the pensioners below us have lived here since the house was built in 1992, we took over our pad in 2004 but the rest are young people and they've got the symbolic ants in their pants and move in and out quite often.

Funny thing happened when I went shopping today. I was at the local drugstore, a large sized chemist where they don't sell prescription pills, something like Boots without the drugs. My hand cream and a couple of other things needed buying. The queue was a mile long (figure of speech, I like to exaggerate) so they had all three counters were open and some of the customers were in tight mood, including the woman in front of me. Remember it's Saturday, Market day, time to saunter through town, relax. Well she didn't put a separator behind her purchases to indicate the end, being the nice person as I am I plonked my ware behind hers and put a separator behind it. You can imagine what happened, my stuff was scanned to her purchases and the shop assistant had to run off for the master card to cancel the mistake. What a laugh, the mardy woman grumbled because it took so long and I had a laugh watching her, I felt a wee bit sorry for the assistant what with having caused her trouble as such a stressful time. Sylvia would say "Little things please little minds", that's too true, love you sis'.

Here's another couple of Niebüll impressions. I'd like to carry on my theory about the houses and how they were spoilt in the time after the second world war when the people had money to spend.

Here's an ugly example of too much money at the wrong time in history.
To start the windows with single panes, then an extension with a flat roof, plastered and painted walls and a door that fits in a modern house but not a thatched Friesian house.

Here's a good try!
 The windows should have been made narrower,
then the style would have been more authentic.

It's a darn sight better than the neighbouring house,
but here you can see my point with smaller windows.
They fit into the facade much better

Here's a good example of authenticity.
The windows are double, not double glazed but with an inside and an outside sash.
You can see how the house was used in older days by the shapes and sizes of the windows.
On the right the windows are large, that was the living area of the owners, on the left, the small arched windows, that is where the domestic animals lived (pig, cow and poultry) and the far left the large window the servants room.

The house also has an impressive double leaf door.

Across the road, also very well restored, this time with double glazing.

The door is a bit of a letdown, it's been well kept but it doesn't fit in with the Friesian style.

I like the way they have added a modern roof with dormers,
they are not typical in small, one family Friesen houses,
Dormers are usually built into big farm houses with enormous roofs.

One of the finest Friesian houses in Niebüll

Look at the detail

The side door, it's all wood

The churchyard's side entrance

Niebüll's church
The Christuskirche

The spire

And the main entrance to the church yard.
The old Friesian verger's house is rapidly falling apart.
A hotel owner from Hamburg bought it several years ago, she wanted to renovate it and let it out to rich tourists
but the house is listed and she didn't get the approval from the historic preservation office, so she just let the house go to ruin. Some day in the near future the house will be demolished and she'll be able to build without conforming to the preservation office policies.

I'll give the house another year, it hurts to look at it.

That's enough for today, a trip through building does and don'ts, hope you enjoyed it and if I fibed a bit or got my facts wrong write and tell me. I'm only human and prone to making mistakes.

Bye, see you all tomorrow.