Happy March to all my Friends and Readers
New Calendar picture with this
beautiful watercolour painting by Hanka Koebsch
New Calendar picture with this
beautiful watercolour painting by Hanka Koebsch
"Am Fluss"
"Along the River"
Hanka and Frank say to this picture:
"Für den kommenden Frühling haben wir uns für Hankas Kinder Aquarell entschieden."
"For the coming spring we have chosen Hanka's children's watercolor."This picture by Hanka remindes me of my childhood. We had a little stream behind our house that would go all the way into the village and we children used to go there and take the way to our favourite places.
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In the middle of February, I heard someone saying on the radio "When will it finally be spring? And I thought, hey, it's only February. Shortly afterwards, we had two days of snow, the first this winter. And probably the last. I remember winters when we had snow from November until February at the least.
In the middle of February, I heard someone saying on the radio "When will it finally be spring? And I thought, hey, it's only February. Shortly afterwards, we had two days of snow, the first this winter. And probably the last. I remember winters when we had snow from November until February at the least.
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And there was a less amusing event for all Germans. Elections. After the last coalition collapsed, Chancelor Olaf Scholz (Wikipedia) asked for a vote of confidence which is one of the prerequisites to have new elections.
Of course, the conservative party won and the ultra-right gained 20% of the elections, something most of us feared. Now we hope they won't form a new coalition, that would certainly be a catastrophe. Wish us luck.
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With the book club, we read a German book by Michel Bergmann, "Herr Klee und Herr Feld", unfortunately not translated into English or any other language. Yet, I hope.
My favourite book of the month was "Jane Austen at Home" by Lucy Worsley. As part of the commenmoration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, the Classics Club has started a #Reading Austen project. We are reading a book by her every other month and I have decided do read something Austen-related by her every month. This was a fabulous biography.
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And here is a picture from our two days of snow.
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* You can also have a look under my labels Artist: Frank Koebsch and Artist: Hanka Koebsch where you can find all my posts about the two artists.
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I've been keeping up with elections globally and it's terrifying to see other countries having the similar issues we are.
ReplyDeleteI know, Sarah. What is this world coming to?
DeleteHappy March! Real snow! How rare! At home, we have tons and tons of snow. Here in London there is none of course.
ReplyDeleteBe glad, Eva. We lived in England for six years and we had snow once. People are not used to it, it was total chaos!
DeleteHa, ha, that reminds me of our year in North Carolina: There was snow and ice once and the whole area (Durham) stopped functioning. Everything got canceled.
DeleteIt's the same everywhere, Eva. You notice when people are not used to it. LOL
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DeleteIt's a fun idea to do something Austen-ish all year.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deb. I was thinking I'd get withdrawal symptons if I "only" read her every other month. LOL. No, I still have a few non-fiction books that I can take care of in between her novels.
DeleteHappy March to you Marianne. So many things are happening now, and not always good. A positive thing though, is our blogging community. We can indulge in good literature, wonderful authors and get away from reality for a short while. It is worth it, I think.
ReplyDeleteOh, you are so right there, Lisbeth. Blogging is always fund and talking to like-minded people makes my day. Mind you, this morning I had ten spam posts, all from the same guy. And the other day, an anonomous poster wrote die! die! die! about a hundred times under one post. So, unfortunately, not even in this community everyone is nice.
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