My Daily Banana:
 

Photo of the Day:

A small hint where we spent our anniversary!

 

Event of the Day:
 

30th May 1889

The Brassiere was invented
 

Someone was thinking of mens eyes and thoughts when this was invented, The Brassiere

White, red, black, see through, hard, soft, pointed, pushups, half cups, full cups, lace, leather, rubber, cotton, synthetics, sports, strapless, maternity, padded, back opener, front opener, x-my-heart, now I'm running out of expressions for one and the same thing. They were invented to replace the corset in the late 19th century but first came into common usage in the thirties of the last century. 

Todays Birthday:
 

30th May 1942
 

Lenny Davidson
 

Guitarist in the Dave Clark Five. They sang a couple of hits back in the early sixties such as Glad All Over and Bits And Pieces. I haven't heard from them since then.

Died on this Day:
 

30th May 1431
 

Joan of Arc
 

A French revolutionary and Saint. At nineteen she was burned at the stake.

 

Our Anniversary outing:



Waiting for the train to Sylt

As you all know, yesterday was our wedding anniversary, the thirty-fourth. We had a trip over to Sylt, once again, this time to Morsum.


Morsum station

A garage on Sylt is never used to keep the car in,
 this ones a shop and manufacture.
The owner sells home sewn and home knitted things

Having money does not mean having good taste!
What an ugly roof?

 

There is a very good bakery cafe there that we wanted to visit, but first we paid our respects to cousin Peter who was buried in the Morsum graveyard only a few weeks ago. The have a nice little church in Morsum, it's named after Saint Martin (he is the saint who tore his cloak in two and gave one half to a pauper who was freezing on the roadside. See the photo it tells the story, I'm not too hot on bible stories.)


The entrance to Saint Martin's Church in  Morsum

Over the pews to the altar.
It's just a small church but very picturesque

Such a small church,
such a large organ

Here is the Saint Martin story in a wooden relief

Goodbye cousin Peter

 

Back to the cafe´, a normal cappuccino and a piece of maracuja cream cake for Heike and a large cappuccino and Friesen Torte for me. Friesen Torte is flaky pastry base covered with a half inch of plumb jam, topped with two and a half inches of stiffened cream and a flaky pastry top. It tastes a dream, one piece every blue moon is enough and the thirty-fourth anniversary doesn't come all that often.

 





Cafe´Ingwersen, Morsum
(not my photo, found it in Google)



Friesentorte
(not my photo found it in Google)

 

We then jumped on the train again and rode to Westerland.

There was the first surfing contest of the year on the main beach. When we arrived there wasn't any action on the water, the wind was coming from the east and that means the surfing is a no go, either that or they have to go out a kilometer from the coast line to catch any wind. It didn't bother us , there was enough to see, the promenade was full. A lot more people than last weekend when the Harleys were here.

We had a nice stroll over the beach and all in all we had a great anniversary.

Want to see some more Sylt photos, say yes cause your caught I'll show you them anyway. Enjoy them and the comments.



An Auto Train
If you go to the isle of Sylt by car this is the way to get over the damm



This Auto Train is leaving Sylt



The Train to Westerland
Full with tourists, only standing room.



 



Car boot sale in Westerland.
Nothing like a normal car boot sale, here you can buy jam, knitted socks and a golden Rolex watch.
On Sylt they know how to exaggerate

One of the many five star hotels on the island

Need something for the doggy?
A golden, diamond studded collar, a porcelain eating dish or maybe a leather or mink vest?
Here's the place to find it.
Koko von Knebel
 

Left over from the Harley Day's

The Westerland promenade

I like the idea, a cult Vespa truck with a very good espresso machine built on the loading platform

I had one of these back in 1975

 

 

Westerland beach

Westerland beach II
It's still too cold and the holidays start in July

Most of the tourists prefer the promenade

If I had bad taste and one of these, I'd spray it like this

Same sort of dinky toy but it looks boring

The other side of Sylt

Everyone thinks this is Sylt, but no the real Sylters are being forced to leave the island, it's too expensive

I saw this Mickey Mouse outside an art gallery, in the shade.
Guess why it's in the shade?

Cause it's made of Haribo gummi bears
and they melt in the sun

Another cool car, an Opel GT
A friend of mine had one in the seventies

Nice backside

Money and Taste
The Blue Entrance

Money and Taste
The Green Entrance

Heike getting impatient
 

Still life back in Niebüll

That's it for today. Bye
See you all again tomorrow. Have a nice day

My Daily Banana

Event of the day:

29th May 1980

Today is our Opal Wedding Anniversary

Our wedding photo.

We have not changed much, have we?

 Thirty-fourth years of living together, they have run by like wildfire. I cannot say they were all bliss, I’ve got blisters to prove it, but I really am glad we stuck it out. Some years were a real bind and others were living in luxury, I’d say there were many more good times than bad

Here in Niebüll we are well known, always having a stroll, hand in hand, like young lovers. I think you can leave the young out of that sentence. When we are not together we will are asked, “where’s did you leave your better half?”

Our wedding, so long ago but still in my mind. We were to go to England on our honeymoon. I had an Airplane ticket for Heike and I was travelling there by car, it didn’t work out that way though. Heike was three months pregnant with Gordon and before we went to the registrar’s office she had an appointment with the gynecologist. He forbade her to travel, neither via airplane nor car. What now? Throw away out holidays, no! I went over to England and Heike went to her parents and two weeks later I picked her up and we travelled home. That was our honeymoon; we did have one together though about ten years later in Torremolinos, Spain.

Birthday of the day:

29th May 1949

Francis Rossi

One of the founders of the group Status Quo back in 1962, he is the lead singer and the lead (ha,ha) guitarist. I laugh because he still can’t play the instrument. Despite this small matter the group have lasted over fifty years and are still going strong. One of my first singles was Pictures of Matchstick Men from 1967, that was one of the best that they have recorded.

Pictures of Matchstick Men

I saw them live 1970 in Lincoln, it was in a blow up tent at the race ground down Carholme Road. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was on the bill also. Do you remember his hit Fire?

Fire

In the tent, which was packed with maybe five hundred youngsters there was a rocker group and the scum of Lincoln The Clan got wind of this. They staged a siege at the end of the concert, hauling rocks, sticks and bottles at the tent entrance so that nobody could get out. It couldn’t have been too bad though cause eventually we all did exit and I can’t remember anyone getting hurt.

Died on this day:

29th May 1994

Erich Honecker

The last dictator of Germany, well the last communist party president of East Germany. A silly little man, well described by Udo Lindenberg in his song Sonderzug Nach Pankow.

After abducting from his reign 1989 of East Germany he fled to South America where he lived with his wife Margot quietly until his death in 1994.

Non Cycle ride of the day:

I was tired so I took the day off from cycling. Work didn’t go down too well either, I managed to get six hours and three A1 plots together. That’s quite good really, this month has been atrocious, I haven’t even got fifty hours to bill. That means digging into the cookie glass (my reserve), to pay for all the bills. Another four years of worry and then I can live from the state, I don’t expect to stop working straight off though, my work is much too interesting. Like today I got an order to build a drawing template, I will be doing that in Microsoft Visual Basic for Visio. It’s a great feeling when I get the computer to work for me instead of just hacking in data.

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day

My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the day:

 

The first photo of the day that's not from me,
but with me, capturing Sarah's lovely smile.

 

Giant Rhubarb:

 

The Giant Rhubarb is growing strong, it's about six foot high.

I hope it gets bushy.

 

 

Event

28th May 1987

Mathias Rust lands on the Red Square

 

 

 in Moscow with a private airplane. He was doing a training flight, one that is needed for the flight license. The training flight was supposed to be over home country, Germany, but some camel scratched his back and he flew to Moscow, Soviet Union. His reason, or so he says is the world peace. For this brave but idiotic feat he was detained for the next fourteen months.

 

Birthday:

28th May 1928

Giesela Schnier, maiden name Winter

My mother in law. As I remember her she was a very peaceful woman. I never saw her in a fret or get angry. Her life was work, hubby and the kids. It must have been very lonely for her when the children left home and Fritz died in 1987. She outlived him by eight years and passed away in August 1995.

Giesela was married to Friedrich Schnier (I wrote about him a couple of weeks ago on the 2nd May to be precise) and bore five children, Knuth, Edith, Peter, Heike and the nest chick Edeltraut. To begin with they lived in a two bedroom apartment until Fritz built a house in Bargenstedt, where they had the luxury of three bedrooms. One for the parents, one for the boys and one for the girls. Enough for those days, now it's much different if the kids don't have a bedroom on their own it's as if they live in poverty.

 

Died:

28th May 1977

King Edward VIII

 

 Former King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He was king for just over three-hundred days and was forced to give up the crown because of loving the wrong woman. Wallie Simpson, she was American, had been married twice, divorced once and was awaiting the second divorce to come through. That was too much for the parliament and the church. Edward being king was also the head of the Church of England and the religion did not agree with people remarrying when their former spouse was still alive.

 

 

Ride of the Day:

It's windy here in good old Germany. The trip took a little longer than in the past two weeks, I enjoyed it though. I'm repeating myself when I say "I like riding when the wind is blowing", up to nine Beaufort I have no real problems riding against head-on wind, the bicycle has between twenty and thirty gear ratios, from hard to very easy. I have used very easy only once and that was to climb a sixteen degree hill and that was no problem. The only think about wind that's not too nice is when it comes from the side and tries to throw me off the road. It's alright as long as there is no traffic then I have to keep a straight path which can be tricky. No need to philosophy on that now though, the storm winds come in autumn and that's months away.

I keep meeting new friends on my round



I don't know why the beehives are still next to the rape field,
the blossom is wilted

 

That's all for today, have a nice one. Greetings to all in England, now I've got two sisters there (well for a short time)