As I've been stalking my bees for a goodly while now, and taken waaaay too many plant+pollinator (and other random) pictures - it's time for another picspam, it's been over a week since the last one after all! Mostly bees. Some other animals. And flowers. Also, weather.

( The birds, the bees and other beasties, cut for your convenience. With bilingual commentary! I looked up all those plants for you English-speaking folks, I hope you appreciate that! )

Just because I'm not at home doesn't mean nothing's happening there.

You may remember that when we started restoring the roof, we found all kinds of funky things, such as a mummified cat, a mummified rat, a bird skeleton, a ROUS skeleton, an egg and a box of old photos. Also, Jörg noted that there were some wires sticking out of a disused chimney ( Read more... )

Aus der Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung heute:

Demonstrationen gegen 2007

Nantes. 600 Menschen haben in der Silvesternacht in Nantes gegen das Jahr 2007 demonstriert. Ein Redner erklärte, die "verrückte Jagd nach der Zukunft" müsse aufhören. Gegner seien die Schweizer Uhrenhersteller und die Vereinigung der Hausmeister und Gebäudewächter, die " ( Read more... )

- However, now I'm curious.

What words of truce did you use when you were kids? As in, you were playing tag, and someone's shoelaces became undone - what would they say so the others wouldn't take advantage of that, but allow them to tie their laces again? Or someone found something they'd want everyone to see, so the game had to be stopped (a ( Read more... )

Dear asshat senior student ( Read more... )

Eru Allmighty, why does it need a one-and-a-half hour information sitting about Studying In East Asia to give me the five URLs I was looking for, and the deadlines I have to keep? Why do they have to wrap it up in a mass of semi-informative small-talk plus the amazingly uninteresting testimonies of people who've already been there? And why did ( Read more... )

Happy Easter, one and all ( Read more... )

QotD:
Prof. Brumann (on the pont-des-arts conflict): "As political decisions of all kind generally take weeks of negotiations, flattery and, erm, "donations" in Japan, all parties involved were surprised and offended when Masumoto came to this decision after just one night with Chirac. *pause* Not that sort of night. Although, that would be an ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness, can it be... can it be... SPRING? It's 8°C! The sun is shining! The first narcissuses(narcissi? narcissûs?) and snowdrops and crocuses (croci? crocûs? crocoi?) are looking out of the earth - there'll be an explosion of blossoms one of these days if the sun remains with us! In Witzhelden, they have followed some adorable rural semi- ( Read more... )

Me: *listening to this*
Jörg: ... you know, Japanese really isn't a beautiful language.
Me: Oh, come on. At least the Japanese phantom hits the high keys; you can't say that of the American phantom.
Jörg: ... Americans. Can't even hit Bagdad... without the BND's help ( Read more... )