Hey people – in Germany it is the time to go out and collect hazelnuts. There are loads out there.
Pretty soon, in fact they have already started, the walnuts will be falling – and then the Chestnuts.
I guess it is just a nutty time of year.
Enjoy
P.S. If you stop eating pre-packaged nuts – peanuts – dry roasted nuts etc – and only eat those that you crack from a shell you will not put on weight!!!
Bruce
A common topic at this time of the year here in Germany – especially regarding apples and other fruits. I have been know to avail myself of the odd apple or two – but not from a harvested tree. There is one tree I know that is a cooking apple tree – and it has never been harvested in the 10 years I have lived here in Kronberg. There is another cox apple tree – that likewise has never been harvested – and yet again a pear tree – that has never been harvested. And I take pick-ups – i.e. fruit that has fallen off the tree.
I also collect nuts (yes – I am a hunter gatherer 🙂 )
However – today whilst cycling between Niederhöchstadt and Steinbach I witnessed a man walking with his female partner with child buggy – go, not once, but twice into a field and take sweetcorns – stripping off the leaves and giving them to the woman who put them quickly into the child buggy. EVEN as I cycled past – he did not even pretend to hide what he was doing. I I looked him straight in the eyes as I cycled past and he looked straight back – no shame at all..
Further on I witnessed another couple and the woman had a potato in her hand.. I had observed her going into the potato field and as I cycled on there was one plant pulled up with potatoes strewn around.
Unbelievable – – literally – daylight robbery.
Hi all – I was out on the bicycle this afternoon and, cycling alongside a small stream in Niederhöchstadt, was astounded to see hundreds of dead fish – from the very small 2 or 3 cm long to the quite large – 20 cm long. They were about 100 of them – small babies and larger adults.
I felt really sad – such a sight was not something I am used to seeing – I believe they were rainbow trout – silver fish with a line of pink/red circles running along their bodies. It was so sad.
I asked some locals who lived there – and they hadn’t even noticed.
Was this a case of lack of oxygen as the back dried up? Or perhaps something more sinister – somebody dumping stuff in the river that they shouldn’t?
Who can tell me?
Why you should listen to this TED talk.
1. You were a kid once.
2. You still have that child inside you – it affects your daily life – whether you want it to or not.
3. What she says is not the answer – but there is no answer without at least considering what she says.
Bruce
Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids | Talk Video | TED.com.
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Learning English can really help you to defeat the ageing effects.
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I like the thoughts expressed in this slide show.
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Watch this slide presentation – some interesting statistics.
Show it to your boss – or better still to his/her boss – and just wait for that positive feedback to come rolling in.
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There is no failure – only feedback
A good expressions that can mean – major changes in the company or business or market prospects. But this time I mean the wind is changing.
I flew back from the UK last Monday – and the flight was very blustery. I spoke to someone who flew to Budapest last Thursday – and their flight was very blustery.
For the last two weeks when I have been riding my motorcycle – including today – I have noticed that the wind is very blustery.
What is all this blustery? I am suspicious.
Comments?
Bruce
I’ve added an introductory video to You tube. Its a first attempt – but it’s a beginning.
Enjoy.
Bruce