My Daily Banana

 

 

Photo of the Day:

Found this picture on Andrea's chip

 

 

Event of the Day:

6th July 1964

 

The Beatles film A Hard Days Night premiers in London

 

Shortly after, could be a year after (more than likely) I saw the film in Westerland, Sylt. In Germany the film was called Yeah, Yeah, Yeah and the voices were synchronized, luckily only the talking voices.

Here's the film splitt up in 10 sections: A Hard Days Night

In Germany there will be problems playing the film, because of the Gema and the music rights.

Birthday of the Day:

6th July 1946

Two creeps were born on this day; one became President of the United States of America and followed his father; who started a war against Saddam Hussein in 1990 and the second: one of the ugliest creeps ever born in New York who tried to become an actor; fighting in five(?) boxing films and a series of films where he played a mercenary soldier with amazing weapons that ranged from daggers more deadly than the Bowie Knife and guns that fired every deadly projectile possible.

No picture of these two idiots!

 

 

Died on this Day:

6th July 1971

 

Satchmo, Louis Armstrong dies at the age of seventie-one.

Can you think of a more famous trumpeter? He was also a master in the skill of skat ( that's the art of singing sounds and syllables instead of word text). The first song that comes to mind when I think of him is the late version of What a Wonderful World

Thoughts:

Weekend and lazy, we walked to where we used to live between 1985 and 2001; it was the Domino Discotheque then and now it is a winter disco. In summer it stays closed. Times have changed, back in the eighties and nineties the young people would pilgrimage to the disco. I often heard of youngsters driving more than two hundred kilometers just to visit a dive that was the in place. When we worked in the Domino I sometimes went on a recce in another town sussing out what the others did differently to attract the crowd. I enjoyed that, I could follow my hobby of birdwatching!

My dearest one I caught in the Santa Fee on the island of Sylt back in 1977

 

Now, a picture show of a warm and flowery summer's day in Niebüll:

 

The Amtsgericht (Magistrate's Court).
Thirty-nine years ago I was charged of arson and trialed here; I burned a thatched roof house down in Kampen, Sylt, it was an accident while damp-proofing the bathroom.

Thatch the raw material
The circumference of the bundle is the amount of straws that fit under the arm when the fist is placed on the hip.

The Domino as it looks now.
It is now called the Night Life and only opens in the winter months

The house in which we lived sixteen years

Niebüll's Greek restaurant, the Taverne Rhodos
I used to be a regular customer there when we lived next to the Domino; it's only a spit away

Uhlebüller Strasse
The way into town from the north

We stopped at Edeka for a chat and a cup of cappuccino

One cup wasn't enough for me so we also stopped at the Cafe Maus

Now the bloomy part

The path home can be beautiful

 

And then we were at home,

it took another half hour and it started chucking it down,

summer rain

 

Bye for today

Are you glad to be home Andrea?

It'll be good for Jerry, now he'll be amongst kids.

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Photo of the Day:

 

Niebüll vicarage

 

Event of the Day:

5th July 1969
 

The Rolling Stones play a free live concert in Hyde Park, London
 

It was the first live concert since two years and just two days after the death of Brian Jones, Mike Taylor was the new guitarist. Between 250,000 and 500,000 people attended; the Stones topped the show, the other acts were King Krimson, Alexis Korner's New Church, Third Ear Band, Family and two unknown bands; Screw and the Battered Ornaments.

Take some time off and watch the video of the concert (with interviews of the band, the British Hells Angels and others), it is of a very good quality:

Rolling Stones in Hyde Park 1969

Birthday of the Day:

5th July 1996

Dolly the sheep; the first animal that was cloned.

 

She was cloned from a mammary gland cell from an adult sheep. The name Dolly was given to her by one of the scientists who cloned her, Ian Wilmut; he stated "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's"
(Quote from Wikipedia)

Died on this Day:

5th July 1969

 

Walter Gropius

 

The founder of the Bauhaus Art School died at the age of 86

He was an architect and many of his houses listed as belonging to the UNESCO World Heritage.

Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany

Bauhaus F 51 armchair

Thoughts:

Hi, isn't it a beautiful day? the sun 's shining, it's warm and I've got the day off work.

This week wasn't my week, since I came back from my holiday in England I have had a cold (collective aaahhh!) It isn't too bad but that and the DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness: I learn something everyday); my week turned out miserable.

The work was good though; I had something to do each and every day at least five hours for me that is nearly overworking. The last two days I had 3D drawing again then I am in my element, but because it comes up so seldom I'm a little rusty. I get the job done, it just takes a little longer.

Now it's time for football; France is playing against Germany. My forecast 3:1 for France.

The first half is over and Germany leads 1:0, they didn't look too good though the last quarter hour. I could still be right with my forecast, I hope not! My forecast was wrong, Germany won. Who will they play against in the semifinal?

 

Strolling through Niebüll with Heike

A path into town

Giant Cow Parsnip Heracleum mantegazzianum
Riesen Bärenklau
An enormous plant, but unfortunately the sap can cause burns; steer clear of it the after effects can last for years.

Not a pretty motive, but a part of our life.
Look at the sky, what an amazing summers day

Yellow is the colour of the day

The vicarage

Rose hips, Oma used to make jam out of the ripe ones; the seeds need to be removed.
 As a child I used the seeds as itching powder.

A day without Lincoln, there are many more photos of my holidays, but I don't want to get you fed up too soon.
Anyone going to watch the Tour de France, starting in Leeds, Yorkshire today?

Bye till tomorrow!

My Daily Banana

 

Photo of the Day:

I'm watching you buddy!

Event of the Day:

4th July 1865

Alice in Wonderland from Lewis Carroll is published

4th July 1776

Independence Day in the United States of America

The day celebrates when the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence declaring independence from the United Kingdom
 

Land of the Free,
because of the brave

Birthday of the Day:

4th July 1938

Bill Withers

 

Great rhythm and blues singer; he sang some easy going songs such as Lean On Me

Died on this Day:

4th July 2003

Barry White
 

The man with the deep, deep voice. He couldn't really sing, he mainly talked on his records; the records that were recorded are incredible. His main vocation was writing and producing music, I thank the heavens that he also recorded his own songs. 

His two greatest hits were You're The First, The Last, My Everything and Can't Get Enough Of You're Love, Babe
and the song I like the most
Love Serenade it's very lascivious, part II is the best it's very lingering

Thoughts:

Tuesday at lunch time we had our gymnastics in the firm. At the time it seemed to be normal stretch and moving, but something was different; I can hardly move anymore, my legs are in such pain. I've got a bad case of sore thigh muscles, I cannot believe it; my legs are well trained through cycling and walking, but still the sport on Tuesday was too much. Today there was gymnastics again at lunch time; I had to give it a pass.

Andrea is on her way back to Aussieland, bye Andrea, Jim and Jerry. I hope to see you again in the near future, well maybe in six years when Sylvia and Frazer have their Golden Anniversary. That would be great if we could all get together again, maybe you could make it over also Fraser. We could go on a photo safari through Lincoln and the county. 

Bon Voyage, ich habe euch lieb XXX<3

Look what I found on the web:
16 Abbot Street

Down Michaelgate

Gibraltar Hill
What a contrast modern and antique

I can imagine this house on the Spanish coast,
but not in Lincoln and absolutely not in the Cathedral area.
The architecture is great, the garage spoils the harmony.

Corporation Street
What a beautiful house, it is well kept
Except for the missing sculpture above the door

The Green Dragon
One of my haunts in years gone by.

The Cathedral again, you can't miss it in Lincoln
On the left there's the Drill Hall donated to Lincoln in 1890 by Mr Ruston
 During the typhoid epidemic in 1905 it was used as an infirmary,
one of the happier events: the Rolling Stones appeared here on New Years Eve 1963

Watergate The old factory after the bridge is now an expensive apartment house

Watergate, this used to be Ruston Turbines it's now Siemens

Rosemary Lane
Wesleyan School from 1859
it has two entrances; the gate was the girl's entrance and the infant school, the main entrance was the boy's:
now the house is full of apartments
 

I wouldn't mind a living room with that window
 

The old museum (where it is now?), the library and the Drill Hall 

 That was another view around town, seen anything new?

Bye for today, I have to work.