When this you see,
Remember me,
and bear me in your mind.
Let all the world say what it will,
Speak of me as you find.
Thank you for your life Robin – you touched mine.
The Best of Robin Williams: A Presenter’s Tribute
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Theft
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.
Robin Williams – some of his quotes.
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Dead fish
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?