My Daily Banana

 

Event of the Day:

 

3rd June 1946

First bikini worn in Paris

The first bikini presented in Paris 1946

Louis Réard the inventor of the bikini



 

My first encounter of a bikini was when I saw the James Bond film Dr No in 1962 when Ursula Andress came out of the water  wearing a white bikini, around her midriff she wore a whitened Army belt with a dagger . How sexy!

Ursula Andress in Dr. No 1962

 

Birthday of the Day:

3rd June 1906

Josephine Baker

With much more sex appeal Josephine Baker danced in the stage in the 1920’s wearing a Banana Costume. The costume was panties- top and a skirt made of sixteen bananas stringed together.

Banana skirt dance

 

Josephine Baker dancing

 

Died on this Day:

3rd June 2011

Andrew Gold

I was shocked to see that Andrew had died. He recorded some very good songs back in the 1970’s. The one I remember the most was Oh What a Lonely Boy from the 1976 album What’s Wrong With This Picture?

 

Ride of the Day:

Riding through the countryside at the moment is like walking through fire. The farmers are cutting the grass and hauling in the hay. As you can see on the photos, hay is lying everywhere. Thank heavens there was no traffic on the roads where I cycle, it could have been a little narrow. I would have had problems seeing the cars also, then my eyes were flowing and my nose was running. On days like these I wonder if I’ve taken on the right sport.

 

The proper environment for sufferers of hay fever

It's a lovely countryside though

Bye se you all tomorrow:-)

 

 

My Daily Banana

Today the Banana is gen technically manipulated :-)

 

Event of the Day:

2nd June 1953

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

 

 

On the same day in 1994 an

RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland on the island of Mull of Kintyre.

 

 

 The four crew members and twenty-five passengers were killed, they were a big knob delegation of UK experts of Northern Ireland intelligence. Crew negligence was ruled the cause of the accident, this was overruled in 2011. This is another piece of history I read of in one of Ian Rankin's books the Falls from the Rebus Collection.

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

2nd June 1941

Charlie Watts

 

Original member of the Rolling Stones. He's the grey haired loony behind the drums. I don't know much to say of him, everyone behind Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is pale and almost unknown. Did he ever sing or compose one of the Stone's recordings? I don't think so, but like every foot soldier, the generals would be nothing without them. One of the best Stones LP-recordings is Their Satanic Majesties Request. Listen to it, it's great, they brought it out as competition to the Beatles Sgt Pepper's LP.

 

Died on this Day:

2nd June 2008

Bo Diddley

 

A blues, Rock 'n' Roll musician who influenced many enormous groups and musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, the Yardbirds,the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Who and many more of the talented.

Here's one of the many covers of a Bo Diddley song Diddy Wah Diddy interpreted by Captain Beafheart

 

And Bo Diddley himself singing the Original Diddy Wah Diddy from 1955

 

 

Non Cycle of the Day:

 

Today was another day when I didn't feel like riding my bike. My head was a little giddy so instead I had a nice stroll with Heike. We had a nice cuppa and as Heike was paying we also had a piece of strawberry cream cake. Mmm, it was good.

 

The fair is in town so we had a walk around it, twice to be precise, it's so small it takes only a quarter of an hour to circle it once. We were lucky, guess who we met? Kirsty, Jan-Eric and the three little ones. All the fun of the fair, that is one thing you can say for the wee ones, everything is bright, shiny and exiting. Isn't it nice to see how their eyes light up when they can ride one of the attractions?

 

 

The hidden Wonder

The Hidden Garden.
A garden in the middle of Niebüll, it doesn't belong to any house and the gardener only has flowers, lawn and a couple of fruit trees. It's a paradise in our small bustling town.

 

The Challenge:

I gained again, I now weight 95.6 kilos that's 400 grams more than last week. Two pieces of cake were too much, next week will look better! 

 

 

That's it folks, see you again tomorrow. Have a nice day

 

 

 

 



 



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Photo of the Day:



 

Punk with a Mohican cut and dreamy eyes looking over the fence

Bibi Blocksberg from the east

 

 

Event of the Day:

1^st June 1967

The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’sLonely Hearts Club Band in the United States.

The album is a milestone in pop music, it’s hard to say pop music because it isn’t your everyday pop but then I can’t put it into any other category. Let’s say it is brilliant music!

 

Birthday of the Day:

1^st June 1926

Marilyn Monroe

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson

She was pictured in the collage on the Sgt Pepper’s album above Ringo in the fourth row. A beautiful woman who died much too early. Bernie Taupin wrote a song (Candle in the Rain)which very fittingly described her short life and the way the press reported her death, it shows how much a life is worth to the tabloid.

 

Died on this Day:

1^st June 1991

David Ruffin

The original voice of the Temptations. He was the lead singer of the group from 1964 to 1967 when he had to leave the group because of an acute cocaine addiction. He sang lead on the songs My Girl,I’m Losing You, I Could Never Love Another and many more soul chart busters.

 

Ride of the Day:

I went out on my Cannondale early, Heike was at work and I thought, when I get back we can have a quiet afternoon and a stroll to our favourite café.

Like usual when I have those simple thoughts they are bound to be blown to smithereens. I got home after a grueling thirty kilometres and Heike had arrived home from work with her plans for the afternoon, or should I say our grandchildren’s plans. The monsters wanted to come around to play. Well after a quick shower and a bellyful of bread and coffee I was ready for them.

Selfie wit Gretje

Gretje's growing,
she still has the foetal hold.
How long does that stay?

We are getting impatient,
when are we going to the park?

 

 

We went to a local playground, on the way there Martje rode the walker bike, the way home was Fentje’s turn. I knew this wouldn’t work out and I was right. Fentje was happy to let Martje ride the bike to the playground but Martje also wanted to ride back home again. Terror, I could have turned her up-side-down, inside-out and wrung her; all the way home she bawled and had to be dragged because she refused to walk. If I could have I would have carried her but she’s too heavy for me and I’m not a camel. That’s why I love having grandchildren when they get tired and niggly you give them back to their parents. Isn’t life a luxury?

Happy at the playground

 

Fentje pissed off with Opa

Heike has been chosen to play with the kids

I had time to chat with Kirsty

 

Bye, see you all tomorrow.Have a brilliant day.

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Event of the day:

31^st May 1969

John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Give Peace a Chance
 

The start of the end of the Beatles

 

Birthday of the Day:

31^st May 1930

Clint Eastwood

Hard man actor, director and former mayor of his adopted hometown Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

I do not agree with his political thoughts, he represents the war mongers the Republicains.

As an actor I found him good playing the rough, tough cowboy in films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He also gained fame as the detective Harry Callahan in the film Dirty Harry

His best film as a director was Million Dollar Baby, a film about female boxer. The film won him an Academy Award for the Best Director. The film itself won another three Oscars Best Picture, Best Atress (Hilary Swank) and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman)

Died on this Day:

31 st May 1996

Timothy Leary

Timothy being arrested, it happened twenty-nine times

 

An American psychologist and author most known for his experiments with psychedelic drugs, the God of LSD. His catch phrase was “Turn on, tune in, drop out”

In John and Yoko’s song Give Peace a Chance Timothy Leary is mentioned in one of the verses

Timothy & Rosemary Leary, John Lennon & Yoko Ono
(John I miss you)

 

Ev'rybody's talkin' 'bout
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary,
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

 

Cycle ride of the day:
 

On my round today I stopped at a house called Blocksberg.

My bicyle, as you can see I'm always on my Cannondale,
 it's easy to ride and I don't have to wear my racing shoes, they're uncomfortable.

Until now it was a house with a nice name that brought back memories: When my children were small we used to read to them from a series of booklets about the adventures of Bibi Blocksberg. She is a little girl who plays practical jokes with the help of magic. Every time I rode past it I told Heike I’d biked past Bibi on my tour.

The rail stataion and now guest house

The house as you can imagine has nothing to do with her. Blocksberg was built as a rail station when the tracks were laid in 1895. They were built to increase the popularity of the islands Föhr and Amrum, the islands have always lived in the shadow of the holiday island Sylt. Traveling time to Föhr or Amrum was shortened by an hour, it was much more comfortable than traveling from Niebüll to Dagebüll with the stagecoach and more passengers could be transported at one time.

In 1905 a dairy for the farms of the area (the Kooge) was built. The dairy products could be distributed faster to the nearby towns and coal could be transported to fire the steam engines with the train. In 1929 the dairy closed down.

In 1926 the narrow-gauge-tracks were replaced with normal-tracks, from then on the trains from Hamburg could travel direct to Dagebüll without the passengers having to change trains. The station Blocksberg closed down in 1992 and from then on is a guest house.

Greetings to Siggi and wife :-)

The rail line from Niebüll to Dagebüll is still running, I've never been on the train, that's one of the todoes on my bucket list.

 

West of Blocksberg

North of Blocksberg

 

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day

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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