Wednesday, November 22
Simon in HD
I was just checking super-blog postcard-from-weil to see how the bridge to France is progressing and apparently, Simon, the author of the blog, was in Heidelberg last weekend. That's just quite spooky because Heidelberg is quite close to Walldorf where I live and I was actually in Heidelberg on Saturday night but unfortunately I didn't see anyone in a pink polo shirt which is what Simon said he was wearing. Maybe I was in the wrong kind of bar.
Man Hit by Bus
An unfortunate incident occurred yesterday in the neighbouring town of Wiesloch. A man, aged 31, was hit by a bus in the main street and sufferred slight concussion of the elbow! Poor fellow - that can be sore! Although, according to our local paper, the Walldorfer Rundschau, the man was listening to some music on a walkman (or ipod) through earphones at the time of the accident so to be honest I don't really have very much sympathy for him. Not to mention the considerable damage loud music can cause to the eardrums, listening to music on a walkman (or ipod) through earphones whilst walking around town is downright foolish as it renders you oblivious to oncoming dangers such as busy traffic, vicious dogs or angry gangs of youth. I never listen to music on a walkman (or ipod) through earphones and I've never been hit by a bus so that proves it. I have had concussion of the elbow though...and the shoulder...ouch!
I recently read an interview with Who guitarist Pete Townshend. When Townshend (60) was asked whether his hearing had been irreversibly damaged from using studio headphones, he replied: "Pie and peas with a little bit of mash".
Point proven me thinks!
I recently read an interview with Who guitarist Pete Townshend. When Townshend (60) was asked whether his hearing had been irreversibly damaged from using studio headphones, he replied: "Pie and peas with a little bit of mash".
Point proven me thinks!
Monday, November 20
Power Grater
Wow! Look at this...
It's a power cheese grater!!! I really had no idea such a wonderful gadget existed! The advert I saw for it reads as follows: "You will always be ready to grate cheese, bread or chocolate at the push of a button". Yes, AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON! Amazing - what will they think of next! Although why anyone would want to grate chocolate and bread is a mystery to me but just think of the time you could save if you had one! Like eggs, cheese can be pretty tricky - I sometimes spend up to 3 days just grating a bit of cheese (very nice on top of ravioli) so one of these would literally change my life and leave me heaps of valuable time for other things I like doing such as not watching films and not playing games on my computer. It's quite expensive though at €69 so I'm not quite sure whether I should risk investing in one. Maybe I'll think about it for a few months...yes, I think that's the best thing. There's no sense in rushing into something I'm going to regret later on is there!
It's a power cheese grater!!! I really had no idea such a wonderful gadget existed! The advert I saw for it reads as follows: "You will always be ready to grate cheese, bread or chocolate at the push of a button". Yes, AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON! Amazing - what will they think of next! Although why anyone would want to grate chocolate and bread is a mystery to me but just think of the time you could save if you had one! Like eggs, cheese can be pretty tricky - I sometimes spend up to 3 days just grating a bit of cheese (very nice on top of ravioli) so one of these would literally change my life and leave me heaps of valuable time for other things I like doing such as not watching films and not playing games on my computer. It's quite expensive though at €69 so I'm not quite sure whether I should risk investing in one. Maybe I'll think about it for a few months...yes, I think that's the best thing. There's no sense in rushing into something I'm going to regret later on is there!
Friday, November 17
Over One Billion Users
Crikey - I've just read that the world's population is 6,499,697,060 and internet penetration for the whole world is 16.7%. That means that potentially potentially 1,086,250,903 people could be reading this blog right now!!! Now if that isn't a scary thought I don't know what is. It's made me feel a bit queasy actually and a bit of sick just came up...I can taste this morning's ravioli now!!! I mean, these words could influence people from right across the globe - obviously I realise that not all parts of the world have the Internet. Poorer places like Afghanistan, Burkina Faso and Keighley still have very low percentages of internet usage but it's still quite impressive to think that people from Australia (g'day mates), South Africa (Howzit), and China (erm..hello) might be interested in happenings in little old Walldorf!!!
Spargel
One thing that Walldorf is famous for is asparagus - they love it here. In fact it's so popular that every year they have a Spargelfest (asparagus festival) where the local people gather to eat asparagus (which is horrible), drink asparagus schnapps (which is horrible), and listen to music by Phil Collins (which is horrible).
Somebody once told me that asparagus can make a man stay up all night so last year, even though I don't really like it, I had some asparagus because there was a film about wine making that I wanted to watch on tv and it didn't start until 3am. Anyway, the asparagus didn't work at all. I managed to stay fairly alert until about midnight because I kept my self busy polishing my woods but then I fell asleep before 1am! And all that happened is that my wee smelt funny for a week! I think next time I want to stay up all night I'll go back to the more traditional coca cola and wine gums!
Here's a picture of Bob Hoskins (who looks a bit like Phil Collins)
Somebody once told me that asparagus can make a man stay up all night so last year, even though I don't really like it, I had some asparagus because there was a film about wine making that I wanted to watch on tv and it didn't start until 3am. Anyway, the asparagus didn't work at all. I managed to stay fairly alert until about midnight because I kept my self busy polishing my woods but then I fell asleep before 1am! And all that happened is that my wee smelt funny for a week! I think next time I want to stay up all night I'll go back to the more traditional coca cola and wine gums!
Here's a picture of Bob Hoskins (who looks a bit like Phil Collins)
Thursday, November 16
Wine - Tasty
I had a nice glass of wine yesterday. I think it was a "Markus Molitor Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 2001 Mosel Saar Ruwer" but I'm not sure. It had some melon and apple character on the limey, minerally nose. Rich textured yet precisely defined on the palate with lovely density of fruit. I'm afraid when it comes to wine I wouldn't really know a Claret from a Bordeaux but I know what I like! Anyway, I liked this one because it tasted of apples, and I like apples because they remind me of apple tart, which reminds me of custard, which reminds me of trifle, which reminds me of Christmas, which is my favourite time of year. That's mainly because of the Good Will To All Mankind thing, which is nice every now and again, but also because of the Christmas crackers and the excellent jokes you get in them. Last year, the joke I got in my cracker was this:
Q: What did the grape say when the elephant stepped on it?
A: Nothing. It just let out a little wine.
Quality!
Here's a computer image of some Christmas crackers:
Q: What did the grape say when the elephant stepped on it?
A: Nothing. It just let out a little wine.
Quality!
Here's a computer image of some Christmas crackers:
Wednesday, November 15
Chairs
I don't think Walldorf is particularly well-known for its chairs but it does have an awful lot of them. Most of them belong to people who live here and they are generally used for sitting on although some are occasionally used as rests for people tying their shoelaces or polishing their boots. In addition to all the chairs that are owned by local people, Walldorf also has an Ikea, which is a huge swedish furniture shop that has lots of chairs (over 200 different varieties*). Here is a picture of a chair that is rather amusingly called PONG hahahha!
* May not be true
* May not be true
Holiday Park
Went to the holiday park in Hassloch the other day. Went on the Freefall Tower. It was good. Much better than Europa Park, which is somewhere near France.
HELLOOOOOOOO WORLD!!!
Greetings fellow bloggers, or readers of blogs, well everyone really,
I was surfing on the interweb one day last week - I think it was Thursday but perhaps it was Friday- yes it was Friday because I was looking for the previous week's results of Strictly Come Dancing (which is on BBC1 every Saturday and is brill) (come on Peter!) (or Emma - she's lovely and she can dance well too) and I wanted to send a virtual postcard to Bruce Forsyth to tell him how great the show is and how funny his jokes are, and anyway, because I was in a place called Weil in Germany not so long ago I decided it would be nice to send a postcard from Weil so I typed it into google and was directed to a website called postcard-from-weil... what a stroke of luck. But no! Disaster! As it turned out this is not a site that does what it says on the tin as I could find no function whatsoever for sending postcards from the town in the title or anywhere else for that matter. Anyway, as I was there, I decided to read some of the words on the site (there were pictures too but they weren't very interesting) and I found out some rather fascinating information about Weil am Rhein with its abudance of chairs and a very very (very very) long bridge (that isn't open). Anyway, sorry about that slight tangent - the be all and end all of it is that if Simon can do it then so can I. So here is my blog called postcard-from-walldorf - Walldorf is much better than Weil so I think I might be able to make this blog just as interesting as Simon's.
I was surfing on the interweb one day last week - I think it was Thursday but perhaps it was Friday- yes it was Friday because I was looking for the previous week's results of Strictly Come Dancing (which is on BBC1 every Saturday and is brill) (come on Peter!) (or Emma - she's lovely and she can dance well too) and I wanted to send a virtual postcard to Bruce Forsyth to tell him how great the show is and how funny his jokes are, and anyway, because I was in a place called Weil in Germany not so long ago I decided it would be nice to send a postcard from Weil so I typed it into google and was directed to a website called postcard-from-weil... what a stroke of luck. But no! Disaster! As it turned out this is not a site that does what it says on the tin as I could find no function whatsoever for sending postcards from the town in the title or anywhere else for that matter. Anyway, as I was there, I decided to read some of the words on the site (there were pictures too but they weren't very interesting) and I found out some rather fascinating information about Weil am Rhein with its abudance of chairs and a very very (very very) long bridge (that isn't open). Anyway, sorry about that slight tangent - the be all and end all of it is that if Simon can do it then so can I. So here is my blog called postcard-from-walldorf - Walldorf is much better than Weil so I think I might be able to make this blog just as interesting as Simon's.
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