Laughing Lhursday*

Comic cloud

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Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books (387) – Kleiner Mann, was nun?

Little Man, What Now?

Hans Fallada (21 July 1893 – 5 February 1947)

Beers & Books (386) – Ernest Hemingway

Happy 125th birthday!

Ernest Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961)

Friday is Skyday

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Laughing Lhursday*

Eng...land! ... Eng...land!

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Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books (385) – The Man with the Red Tie

Stories

 Hushang Golschiri (16 March 1938 – 5 June 2000)

Relats d'estiu de la Carme. Juliol: Waiting in the Rain

Una fotografia de sa lluna

Oh, oh, oh, the way she's standing there! I can already sense it. She will turn round, the corners of her mouth dropped as a sign of extreme annoyance, and after a meaningful pause she will hiss: ‘How nice you're already here. My darling, you obviously don't know that other mothers have handsome sons too.’
Oh, may she stand there with indignation until another mum's handsome son falls for her.
Some mums have pretty daughters too.

And thus, if she hasn't died, she's still waiting.

Beers & Books (384) – The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

 Sadeq Hedayat (17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951)

Beers & Books (383) – The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

Erasmus of Rotterdam ( 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536)

Laughing Lhursday*

Chimney.

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Typo in the title?
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Miss Bumblebee

Friday is Skyday

What tiny an observatory
to watch those clouds
not to speak of the universe

Laughing Lhursday*

High security!!!

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Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Summer in Seanhenge II

Due to my laziness I don't do it often, but just for a change I felt fancy
to offer more than but one photo from Summer in Seanhenge.

Balcony view.

Fern, polygonatum, poppy.

It looks chaotic but after may turnips
we shall enjoy to harvest
tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, peppers,
cauliflower, onions,cucumbers, courgettes,
beans, different salads etc., plus lots of herbs.

Always a fine view when looking up,
whilst reading, writing or just enjoying a mug of coffee.

My rowan, a birthday present many moons ago.

Roses and elder.

Sometimes it's nice to enjoy shadow.

Poppies.

Merrygold, horseradish and phacelia.

Ah yes, that looks pretty chaotic. But I still smile when thinking of the words that have been hanging in front of me for many years: "Chaos on your desk? Then you're a happy man."

Summer in Seanhenge

Flowery idyll.

Friday is Skyday

On a hot Friday afternoon
with a cup of coffee and a good book
sitting in the shade of apple and plum tree
I felt I am privileged.

Laughing Lhursday*

Still life without Beers & Books.

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Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books (382) – Der gute Gott von Manhattan

The good god of Manhattan

Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 –17 October 1973)

Festival of German-Language Literature / Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

Relats conjunts: The School of Athens

 

«L’escola d’Atenes» (Raffaello Sanzio – 1511)
The School of Athens
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Relats conjunts

 

The luminaries of antiquity all together, from A for Aristotle to Z for Zarathustra. And what did they achieve?
In 2024, today's "luminaries" are able to destroy each other with the most modern weapons.
And this is then proudly called progress.

Bloomsday Dialogue

Boccaccio: "Poldy, my friend,
you don't have a birthday in Wikipedia,
just the year of birth. How cometh?"

Bloom: "Boccia, my friend,: Happy Birthday!
How cometh you've been dead for 649 years?"

Boccaccio: "Aren't we all mortal?"

Bloom (smiling softly): "Not all of us".

Boccaccio: ?

Bloom: "Because June 16th, 1904, I became immortal."

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375)

Leopold Bloom * 1866

Bloomsday 

Ulyssses 

James Joyce

Friday is Skyday

Balcony view.

 

Roof drama in Seanhenge.

 

After her tinopeners new roof  had been finished today,
Poesy obviously wanted to inspect
the whole thing from across the road
and suddenly found herself sitting on our roof.

Oh horror! And now how to get down again?

So daughter climbed into the attic, opened the hatch,
hung out a blanket ...

... and tongue snapping lured the cat to safety .
Phew! What excitement ;-)

Beers & Books (381) – The D Case

The D Case
or
The Truth About The Mystery Of Edwin Drood

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012)

Franco Lucentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002)

Fruttero & Lucentini 

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Beers & Books (380) – The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Blimey!

17 years!

Beers & Books (379) – Miqui Otero: Simón

(There is no English entry to be found.)

Miqui Otero *1980

Relats conjunts: Still life with onions and herring

«Natura morta amb cebes i arengada»
(Isidre Nonell – 1910)

Relats conjunts

Hm ... onions ... fish ... onion fish: In German a Zwiebelfisch is a character that by mistake is printed in a font different from the rest.
So what did Isidre wish to tell us with this very painting that is (very probably) nothing but a d'arengada vermella (red herring)?
It's obvious: But I won't tell you.
Surely you will find out for yourselves, won't you? ;-)

Friday is Skyday

20:53

21:24

Beers & Books (378) – Alice Munro

Alice Munro (10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024)

Friday is Skyday

Aurora borealis
with Cygnus and Lyra

Aurora borealis above observatory

Beers & Books (377) – Prishvin: Der irdische Kelch

. . .

Mikhail Prishvin (4 February 1873 – 16 January 1954)

Friday is Skyday

20:52

Beers & Books (376) – Shiloh and Other Stories

Shiloh and Other Stories

Bobby Ann Mason * 1 May 1940

Swallows are back!

Today ‘my’ beloved swallows arrived
and have moved into their nest
above my study. How wonderful!

And since four swallow families
have their summer quarters around our house , ...

and raise their offspring here ...

... at the end of August
there will be plenty of flying activity over Seanhenge
Hopefully

Friday is Skyday

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