My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

The bronze statue in front of the Niebüll Rathaus (Mayor's office)

 

The Giant Rhubarb:

 

The giant rhubarb is over two metres high and still growing. Next week I'll have to take a picture with me standing next to it to give you an impression of its size.

 

 

Event of the Day:

11th June 1966

Paint it Black recorded by the Rolling Stones tops the Billboard charts in the USA

 

and

I am a Rock recorded by Simon and Garfunkel reaches number three on the Billboard charts

 

and

(I am a) Road Runner recorded by Junior Walker and the All Stars reaches number twenty on the Billboard charts

 

and

Sloop John B recorded by the Beach Boys tops the British charts

 

11th June 1969

The Ballad of John and Yoko recorded by the Beatles tops the British charts, their final single chart topper.

Birthday of the Day:

11th June 1910

Jacques Cousteau

French oceanic explorer

 

 

Died on this Day:

11th June 1979

Marion Mitchell Morrison

 

Anyone know who that was?  A famous actor, he starred in Green Beret, True Grit and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Know now?

Of course John Bowlegs Wayne!

Thoughts:

Pooh, I haven't much time; work is catching up on me; at last. This week is chock-a-block full; I even have to take it home with me. No problem with that, my equipment at home has the same quality as at my office; the only thing that I don't have twice is a plotter. It's not that a second one would be too expensive my home office isn't big enough. I still need room for a settee cum guest bed (hoping that someone will visit us [He's got high hopes]).

When I arrived home today I went straight to town to have a cuppa (that's my way of winding down), instead of having a ride in the bike. After that I had two hours of toil, I had a couple of drawings that needed finishing so that I have the full day tomorrow to start a 3D drawing. I have to draw cable channels into a site drawing, not a very demanding job normally, but as the site drawing comes from another firm I have to find my way into it first; and that is demanding, every developer has a different method of constructing. That's what I get paid good money for, so who's complaining?

Heike with her friend Petra

 

Some flower pictures, from the hidden garden

 

My Daily Banana

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

 

It looks like a forest, it's only a small wood but it's great for strolling

Event of the Day:

10th June 1966

Janis Joplin gives her first live appearance on stage in the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, United States. 

 

 

Janis was the singer in the group Big Brother Holding Company.
It didn't last long though, she soon outgrew them and formed her own group
 The Kozmic Blues Band

 

She must have been twenty-three years old, because only four years later she joined the Twenty-Seven Club (that's the exclusive and very mournful club of twenty-seven year olds who lost their lives at that age, Jimmy Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse to name a few.) 

I loved the music of Janis, her interpretation of Gershwin's Summertime goes down in my books as one of the best recordings ever.

 

Birthday of the Day:

10th June 1891

Al Dubin,

 

 Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips)

 

 

covered by Tiny Tim in 1968.

 

Tiny Tim.

 

 

 

 

Tiny Tim an American music artist, who died in 1997 was a freak who had his moments in the sixties. He played an ukulele and sang in a falsetto / vibrato voice. It was terrible but a highlight in the tristesse. of the time. Tiny Tim's version of Tiptoe Through the Tulips peeked in the Billboard charts at number seventeen.

Died on this Day:

 

10th June 2004

 

Ray Charles

 

When he died Billy Joel gave a parting speech
 in which he praised Ray as being
the greatest singing artist of all times even bigger or better than Elvis

A black singer/songwriter born in 1930 and blind from the age of seven, the Rolling Stone magazine rated him number ten in the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 1979 the State of Georgia, United States adopted his song Georgia on my Mind as the official state song of Georgia.

 

 

My minds eye:

 

It's the same every time I write a blog about such a monumental event such as the christening, it's like an anti-climax and I don't know what to write about. Do you know the feeling?

Yesterday was easy, we got up late had a long breakfast and plonked ourselves onto the sofa, that sums up our doings until one in the afternoon. It got too boring, I had to get out into the fresh air, do something. I got niggly with Heike about nothing, it really was time to get out; so we did, we had our stroll around Niebüll.

In the last sentence I said something about fresh air, well it wasn't fresh, it was hot and sticky but at least it wasn't boxed in with four walls. We walked around town for an hour (you can nearly walk the whole perimeter of the town in one hour) and then we landed at our favourite baker's shop for ... (I'm not going to say it, that would be repeating myself). As we were sat outside the baker's the world sailed by, the young rebels with their souped up jobs, the rockers on their souped up bikes, the granddads out for their Sunday drive, the cyclists dressed up for winter, spring and thank god for summer and a beautifully revamped tractor whizzed by.

In Risum-Lindholm there is a garage where they specialise in restoring Schlüter tractors. You can't imagine how expensive they are, for the amount they cost when revamped you could buy a new luxury car some of them are as expensive as a house EUR 250K. If you're interested the firm is called Schlüter Schmiede Jensen

 

 

 

 

I managed and not too bad either (meine Meinung)

Se you tomorrow!

Martje Amber Petersen's christening

 

What a lovely day, it didn't look like that when we got up this morning. The sky was black, lightning was cracking its whip and buckets of water were falling from heaven. That was at eight, at nine thirty when we drove to Risum I had the roof of my convertible open, the sun was shining and the car was heated up like in a sauna.

We arrived, the rest of the gathering arrived and the first tears fell: Martje saw me and did a knee fall; she forgot that she had her new, pretty and white tights on and now they were green. The tears dried up quickly, there was excitement in the air (well for the kids and the future godparents and if I think about it for me also, I'm still a kid at heart).

The service went well, it's Whitsunday and the Pastor, Tim Ströver, told the story of the beginning of the church on this day; of how the disciples came out of hiding and went into the world speaking to the people in every country be it Hebrew, Arabian, Roman, English, French, you name it they could speak that language. On the first day of the Christian Church they baptised three-thousand followers.

The story is good and interesting, if you're a grownup, for the kiddies it was too much so they mucked about, not much it was amazing how disciplined they were. Gretje let everything happen without a word or should I say moan.

After the service we all gathered at Kirsty and Jan-Erik's house for a meal and drinks and coffee with cakes and more drinks. If anyone went home hungry it would have been their own fault.

I'm still suffering four hours later, I ate too much cake.

 

 

 

 

Gretje it's your show today,
it is time for you to join the community,
we all say welcome,
such a pretty and quiet girl <3



Gretje's Christening song

The arrival
Heike, Lynda and her friend Dirk

The Godparents
Martina and Horst
A perfect choice, two that did not have the fortune of having children of their own
 

Family Petersen arrives,
Fentye and Martje dressed up like twins
and look how clean Martje is, it lasted only one minute and she want down on her knees.
White tights and green grass are a bad combination

When she realised that she had mucked her knees it was time for the first tears of the day

They didn't last long,
and now it's off to the church

The gate to the St Sebast zu Risum Church

Pastor Tim Ströver waiting for the congregation.
He is new in the village and took over from Pastor Spiesswinkel last year when he went into pension.

Pastor Ströver, a young and talented pastor,
his service differs enormously from his predecessor

Gretje in her Taufkleid (christening dress)

The church interior,
the altar,
it points to the south,
I wonder if that has any meaning?

The church interior,
the pulpit.

The church interior,
the christening font

The church interior,
a picture next to the pult.
Is this Saint Sebast?

The church interior,
the organ

The church interior,
the Lord's supper

Gretje in a good mood,
she was like that the whole time

 

Gretje with her father Jan-Erik and Martje

 

Martje is always giving her sister a kiss,
sometimes it gets too much for Gretje and she rebels by whining

 

Martje, the wild one
with her Oma Petersen

Fentje

Fentje and Mama
Doesn' Fentje look an angel?

It doesn't hold on very long,
in the past few months, since she started in Kindergarten
she's found her tongue and loves to stick it out at me.
Cheeky bugger :-)

Gretje with her Godmother Martina
and how proud she is, I love it!

The christening is over, now come the family photos
Lets start with Oma Irmtraut and Uroma Marianne (Tick Tack Oma)

The Petersen family with Heike
from the left Oma Irmtraut, Martje, Fentje, Tick Tack Oma, Godfather Horst, Oma Heike, Papa Jan-Erik, Godmother Martina, Gretje, Mother Kirsty and Opa Andreas

The same but with me behind Kirsty

The church service is over and we leave the church in dazzling sunshine.
I quite like the Pastor, modern
It's about time the church got younger in person and idea.

The families Petersen and Martin together on one photo, all except yours truly

Doesn't matter though
now a picture of the proud grandfather

and the proud grandmother

I can't end my blog without a flower photo.
Poppies