Happy November to all my Friends and Readers
New Calendar picture with this
beautiful watercolour painting by Frank Koebsch
"The Old Svaneke Lighthouse - Bornholm"
"Svaneke Gamle Fyr - Bornholm"
Frank says to this picture:
"Das Dänemark Aquarell präsentiert den Leuchtturm in einer typischen Landschaft an der Ostsee im ausklingenden Herbst."
"The Denmark watercolor presents the lighthouse in a typical landscape on the Baltic Sea in the late autumn."
It's always lovely to see a picture with a lighthouse. I love lighthouses. You can see this in my list:
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Lighthouses
When we took our boat tour last month, they had a cute little decoration with a lighthouse there, I just had to take a picture and hope you like it as much as I do.
Read more on their website here. *
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And October was again a special month. I celebrated my 15 year blogiversary on the 5th of the month. For a wedding that would be crystal.
My very first post on October, 5, 2010 was:
Which Austen Heroine are you? I found out that I am Elinor Dashwood. While I always thought I might be Anne Eliot, I can see how Elinor came about.
If you are interested, who you are supposed to be, there is a link on my page. Let me know, if you've done the test.
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For our Jane Austen read (see #Reading Austen project) this month, I found a book about Janes Austen's time. And it was a very interesting and detailed book about all the little things we don't know anything about:
Adkins, Roy & Lesley "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago" (aka "Jane Austen's England) - 2013
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And here we have another German expression that fits everywhere but since the colder time of the year is beginning, we might wear slippers sometimes and that's what made me think of this word:
Pantoffelheld
The German word "Pantoffel" means slipper, "Held" is a hero, so a slipper hero. But we are talking about something very different from a hero. It's a man who allows himself to be controlled by his wife and who has no say at home. Of course, in former time that was really bad, nowadays older people often use it for modern men who "help" at home. And that's just ridiculous, it's his home as well as hers, why should she carry all the burden especially sind most women work for their money today, as well.
Anyway, the English expression would be hen-pecked. Do you know of similar expressions in other languages?
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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.
🎃 I wish you all a very Happy November! 🎃
What a beautiful lighthouse! My mother-in-law loves lighthouses. There are quite a few around the Great Lakes. That decoration above is very pretty. Congratulations on your blog anniversary. We started blogging almost at the same time: My first post was in 2009.
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DeleteHere is another Austen quiz.
DeleteLighthouses are just so beautiful. I also love windmills, so many beautiful ones in our part of the world.
DeleteAnd thanks for the quiz link. I will do it and let you know about the result later.
Hilarious. I'm Elinor Dashwood again, though this quiz was a lot shorter than the other one I took.
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I‘m Elinor Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility
To the layman, you might seem withdrawn and a little cold, but you're actually just as emotional and loving as anyone else. You're level-headed, smart, and practical. It's time for a reread of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen.
Who are you, Eva?
Happy November. We also have the same word in Swedish: toffelhjälte, with the same meaning as in German. I hope your November reading has started out well. I am back home again so hope to have time to read a little bit more.
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