My Daily Banana

Traveling banana

Photo of the Day:

Bis nächste Woche Liebling xxxxx

Event of the Day:

20th June 1837

The first British stamp was issued; 

the Penny Black

20th June 1948

The Deutsche Mark was introduced in West Germany

My last shirt
I'm never without money in my pocket

Many are still pining for the old Deutsche Mark but it's gone never to return again. Have any of you got some stashed away? I still have my last shirt in the wallet, it's a ten mark note folded up as if it were a shirt. I folded it way, way back in time when I was a cab driver on Sylt, that must have been around 1989.

Birthday of the Day:

20th June 1909

Errol Flynn

The guy who is said to have a massive p…. was born on this day in 1909 in Hobart, Tasmania (did it belong to the Australian state then? Does it now? That's on the opposite side of the world and that's politicly a white spot for me.)

20th June 1949

Lionel Richie

The soft singer. I saw him back in 1977 in Dortmund when he was a member of the Commodores. At the time I didn't appreciate their music, I was into semi hard rock, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and some softies like James Taylor, Carole King or the Eagles. The Commodores were a very good group though, you have to give them high credits for songs such as Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady or Flying High my absolute favorite. I've linked the LP recordings because of the quality, the live versions lose so much and these are songs which have a very high standard of composition that only comes out in studio recording (especially Flying High)

Died on this Day:

20th June 1947

Benjamin Siegel aka Bugsy

a nasty mobster in the USA. He was assassinated at his girlfriend's apartment in Beverly Hills California.

I noted his death because I was desperate, nobody I knew of  or of interest died on this day and Mr Nobody can't come up too ofter.

Thoughts:

Today I had the day off so I went for a long, long walk. That was expensive, every couple of kilometers I had to stop for a cup of cappuccino. It's about time I started drinking something else, I'm taking in too much sugar (the milk and the cocoa powder on the froth) as well as too much caffeine. if I carry on like this I'll have to start off a new challenge to get rid of the pounds I'm gaining. Happily tomorrow will get back to normal, just sat around all day in front of the computer but then in the evening I've been invited to join in on a meal and that means excessive calories, shit I haven't got my bike with me, I need exercise.

One of the many

Aren't they sweet

And isn't the car sweet