My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

A reflection of the Michel Dom in Hamburg
We went there  last year for a long weekend.
It's a great city well worth visiting

The crown of the Kempinski Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg

Event of the Day:

8th August 1963

The Great Train Robbery

The 15 "gentleman" robbers stopped the post train from London to Glasgow and robbed its treasure. That was £2.8 million, today that would be £48 million or €60.5 million.

They didn't have much fun with the money because most of them were caught shortly after and received sentences of up to 30 years imprisonment.

Ronald Biggs escaped after 15 months and lived the life of a fugitive until May 2001 when he returned to the United Kingdom to face-up to justice. He thought, because he was ill he would be paroled, but it didn't work; he was imprisoned until August 2009.

Birthday of the Day:

8th August 1983

Angelika Czedik-Eysenberg

Angelika with Johanna, the photo is from March this year

and her daughter/my granddaughter

Johanna Ada Czedik-Eysenberg she was born 8th August 2012

Sweet little Johanna

 

the lovely little girl is now two years old XXX <3

Died on this Day:

8th August 1863

Angus MacAskill

 

 

A giant of a man  7 feet 9 inches (236.2 cm). He died at thirty-eight diagnosed by the doctor as having brain fever.

 

 

Thoughts:

 

My thoughts are in their weekend mode; lazy and in need of sleep.

Something is in the air today, my eyes are itching and I'm sneezing. That brings me to a thought: How does the sneeze rhyme go?

 

One's a wish,

Two's a kiss,

Three's a disappointment,

Four's a letter,

Five is something better

Six is gold

Seven's a story never to be told

 

I Googled the rhyme and found so many variations, my résumé is: the first two lines are always the same, but the rest you can put together as you wish.

Do you know a better version Sylvia?

 

Most of the shopkeepers take care of the path/road/flower borders

Others don't

The twin of yesterdays boring photo
This time I'm sat drinking my elixir of life (cappuccino)

That's it again for today

 

Bye xxx

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Doesn't say much,
it's just a photo of a road crossing
It's as boring as I was bored whilst sat there waiting while Heike did her shopping!
 

Event of the Day:

7th August 1974

Philippe Petit performs a high wire act on a wire strung between the Twin Towers of the former World Trading Center.
 

Birthday of  the Day:

7th August 1867

Emil Nolde
 

German painter who lived in Seebüll, North Friesland (that's about twenty kilometres from Niebüll, where yours-truly lives)

I quite like his flower paintings, they are very colourful.
 

Died on this Day:

7th August 1957

Oliver Hardy
 

The fat half of the duo Laurel and Hardy, he died at 65 of cerebral  thrombosis.

Thoughts:

Everything is going slower. Why go fast? It only costs energy that is dearly needed for something else. That starts with getting up in the morning, I take my time, the day is long enough and who knows what is going to come along. The next is driving to work; I take my time, I travel between eighty and ninety along the country roads; that way I save my break pads because I hardly ever need to break before bends. I know, it sometimes annoys other drivers, but today it saved the life of a deer and that was worth the angry looks when the one or two racers flash past.

I can remember the time when I used to drive like hell. It was frightening, for Heike, my kids and for the other road users. I changed suddenly; it was when Heike and I were driving home from Hamburg a few years ago, I still had my big Merc. We were thundering up the Autobahn passing everything when this small Peugeot gave me a hard time trying to pass. It just wouldn't let me pass, we were both doing about 220 kph and I couldn't get that last bit of power to leave him behind. After around thirty kilometers of this Heike got fed up and ordered me to calm down and drive slower. I went down to 120 kph and low and behold it felt good. Everything but the trucks passed me but I didn't mind. Since then I don't drive fast on the Autobahn, 120 to 130 is fast enough, I get to my destination without risking my or others lives and the car's consumption is down to a minimum.

The Hidden Garden

Same garden, different angle

Old Man's Beard  Clematis vitalba
Weiße Waldrebe

No rain, but the acorns are growing

That was it again for today.
Tomorrow we have a double birthday in the family,
mother and daughter: Guess who?
 

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Behind the dyke

Event of the Day:

6th August 1945, 8:15 A.M.

"Little Boy" (Atomic Bomb) was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
 

It caused 80,000 direct deaths and after one year a total of 90,000 - 120,000 total casualties.

Why did it have to come this far?

something much more trivial but interesting happened on 6th August 1991

The idea of the World Wide Web was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee.
 

What would we do without it?

Born on this day:

6th August 1809

Lord Alfred Tennyson
 

He was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire (between Horncastle and Skegness)

Lord Tennyson was a poet in the Victorian era and many of his phrases are now embedded in the English everyday language, such as: "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" or "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all"

Died on this Day:

6th August 2004

Rick James

 

Funky musician, he died at the age of 56 due to heart problems (or was it an aftermath of cocaine and crack addiction some years before?)

If you like funk music you'll love the video that I have linked "Super Freak"

Thoughts:

Today it seems to be deer run in front of a car day or deer suicide day. On the way to work I had to do a sharp break to avoid one and when I arrived in the outskirts of Flensburg there was one lying half on the road; dead. Be careful when driving the country roads it's rutting time. The bucks are following their hormones and are blind to all dangers.
In German that's called "Schwanzgesteuert" (dick-driven)

As you can see in the following photos; the Gunnera_manicata doesn't like the weather either, it needs some rain.
What a pessimist I am! When it rains I want sun and when the sun shines I want rain. I prefer the in-between! Is there a land where it doesn't rain, the sun only shines half power and the temperature is always about twenty degrees? Oh, yes I forgot; in my utopia there is no dust or pollen that can cause hay fever!

Hope you found something interesting today, if not try again tomorrow; I'll be back.
If you did; you'll be back:-)

Bye xxx

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Event of the Day:

5th August 1972

Moody Blues release Nights in White Satin

 

 

This was the second of three releases of the song, the first time in 1967 and later again in 1979

Birthday of the Day:

5th August 1930

 

Neil Armstrong

 

The first man to step on the Moon

Died on this Day:

5th August 1956

 

Marilyn Monroe

image of many a wet dream

 

Norma Jean died of an overdose of pills at the age of thirty-six. What a loss!

Thoughts:

My thoughts are blank again. The day started just like yesterday, the sun is peeking between the clouds and we've got 15°C at seven this morning. I arrived at work and the first highlight of the day: on the firm's car park stood a Moto Morini 3 1/2 motorbike. When it was built in 1972 it was a revolution, a v-twin, 344cc and in the sport version 39hp. Here are a couple of photos that I took of the machine. Typical seventies style simple with no frills and tires that are nearly as narrow as a mountain bike from today.

 

Short and sweet today.

Bye, see you all tomorrow

 

My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

What can you see?
I see a six legged dog

 

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

4th August 1984

 

Purple Rain LP from Prinze reaches #1 on the Billboard Charts and stays #1 for 24 weeks
 

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

4th August 1900

 

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon aka Queen Mum

 

She loved her husband (King George VI) her daughters (Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margerate) and her gin. I cannot comment on the sequential order, but the gin helped keep her alive till her one hundred and first birthday
 

 

and

 

4th August 1901

 

Louis Armstrong
 

 

When I think of him I think of the song (And I think to myself) What a Wonderful World

 

Died on this Day:

 

4th August 1875

 

Hans-Christian Andersen

 

Writer of many children's books such as the Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Ugly Duckling or The Emperor's New Clothes. The stories always had a serious sideline; such as in the Ugly Duckling: don't be led by first impressions: or the Emperor's Clothes: don't be vain or be led by others, use your own sight and opinion.

 

 

Thoughts:

 

Three thousand clicks: Thank to all of you for coming to my blog. It makes me proud, I never expected so many people that would be interested in my facts and fictions.

 

Today we were out bramble picking. Heike wanted us to do a long walk and start picking at the furthest point and work our way home. Not me though, I wanted to do it the opposite way; guess who won? I did and the first patch of brambles just 100 metres from home had enough ripe fruits to satisfy our needs. After a half an hour of battle with the thorns we had one and a half kilos of the berries; that was enough for this week. Next week we can harvest some more.

 

After a short rest we went for a walk around the outskirts of Niebüll, our usual Sunday stroll that in the end takes us to the Kaffeemaus. The sun was shining and the coffee was good, just another quiet lazy Sunday afternoon until: the Petersen family invaded our table. The quiet was over the three kiddies say to that. What a great highlight to our beautiful day!

Here's some photos of our little ones:

 



We were sat at our favourite café
and then

Look who was in Niebüll

It's been a month since we saw them
the little one has grown and she's so awake

Proud of the gap

Dreaming,
that's how I managed to get a photo of her
She usually hides as soon as she sees me taking a picture

Martje with Jan

Oma with Gretje

Gretje's fascinated from her Opa



Ain't she sweet,
she's a gal that can't be beat,
ain't she really irresistible,
ain't she sweet?


Enough for today,
see you all tomorrow
Bye xxx