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Heinänteko.
"Helppoa kuin heinänteko"
It's a piece of cake.
Kinderleicht.
torstai 17. heinäkuuta 2025
torstai 12. joulukuuta 2024
HYVÄÄ JOULUA - MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Hyvää joulua!
God jul!
Merry Christmas!
Frohe Weihnachten!
Feliz Navidad!
maanantai 22. elokuuta 2022
To blog or not to blog?
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To continue blogging or not?
Nowadays everything should be kept behind an iron curtain.
No faces, hardly any places, basically nothing can be published.
Pretty pics of funny/colourful/exotic food?
Historical buildings, fancy artworks, boring sunsets?
Chocolate with bacon and gin with blueberries?
Kittens, dogs and garden bugs?
Roses, lavender, lemons and figs?
Not even pigs.
Those you can get in every public brochure.
Well, this I may publish. Pic from a concert last week in Finland:
VESTERINEN YHTYEINEEN
And here the song our godson likes the most:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yi60gMSByE
Tummilla teillä -biisissäkin sanotaan että meidät on luotu toisia varten.
Mun lempparibiisit tällä hetkellä:
Mitä tapahtui Hokkasen Timolle, Pitää sanoo ei, Mitä sitten, Äiti, Isä,
Kiljut riemusta (se kohta kun polvet notkahtaa!)
perjantai 25. kesäkuuta 2021
Johanniswanderung
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Finnisch für Anfänger:
JUHANNUS = Mittsommer / midsummer
The summer solstice was called Ukon juhla ("Ukko's celebration") after
the Finnish god Ukko. After the celebrations were Christianized, the holiday
became known as juhannusafter John the Baptist (Finnish: Johannes Kastaja).
(Wikipedia)
Or Finnish Ladies' group decided to "celebrate" juhannus
in the Rheingau winery area, and of course we chose the location
called Johannisberg.
Our seven km walking tours startet at his point - without tasting.
The hills along the river Rhein are not completely covered by wine.
But this is the basic view.
Johannis at juhannus.
Some roses are still blossoming, and how beautiful they are.
These seen in a village along the route.
Winery area, indeed.
And now the last hill up and there's our restaurant.
No coffee, no!
The view from the Schlossschänke is quite pleasant.
The food was okay, most of the portions huge,
the cook was careful with spices.
And please note, after your walking tour: no beer served!
50 Hektar groß, exakt nach Süden ausgerichtet. Ein dem Taunusmassiv
vorgelagerter Quarzit-Hügel. Mit einer Neigung von 45 Grad erstreckt
sich der Berg hinauf auf 182 Meter ü. d. M. und bietet den Trauben
eine perfekte Sonneneinstrahlung.
Seit 1200 Jahren wird auf Schloss Johannisberg Wein angebaut,
seit 1720 ausschließlich Riesling. Hier ist die Wiege einer der
ältesten und edelsten Rebsorten der Welt.
In terms of importance for quality wines, it is usually included
in the "top three" white wine varieties together with
Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc. (Wiki)
tiistai 22. kesäkuuta 2021
Lucky lifters
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How to avoid paying parking tickets in Germany?
Get number plates from Brexitlandia!
These guys have been parking illegally on our street since months.
Today I talked to the
Finnisch für Anfänger:
LAPPULIISA / PARKKIPIRKKO = Verkehrsüberwacher/ Politesse / traffic warden
who was issuing fines for the cars parked close to our building.
I asked him how can it be that these King Lifters always
park their vehicles here, although it is not allowed.
Well, Germany has no agreement with UK, so you can write
thousands of tickets but no money will arrive.
Folks, get British number plates and park anywhere you want!
Gut zu wissen: Bußgelder aus Nicht-EU-Ländern (z.B. Norwegen, Liechtenstein
oder Schweiz) können in Deutschland nicht vollstreckt werden.
Reminder:
290.1 stands there when you enter our street from the Uhlandstrasse,
along the Martin-Elsässer-Platz.
290.2 stands there when you leave that area.
And admire the pretty ECB building.
sunnuntai 20. kesäkuuta 2021
Hellekesä
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Such a fantastic start for this summer, temperatures over 30 degrees!
Yes, yes, this thermometer is partly in the sun. In Frankfurt.
Finnisch für Anfänger:
HELLE = Hitze / heat
Roses love this warm period.
Also these hollyhocks in St. Arnual in Saarbrücken.
Mr. Birthday - 94 years!
These horses belong to our relatives in Saarbrücken.
Look at her, she really is sweating, poor thing.
But got a long shower soon.
And then both horses were taken to this sandy field ... they loved it!
My artistic hubby decorates the sandy horse.
Horse hair fashion or what? Absolutely funny!
Finnisch für Anfänger:
HEVONEN = Pferd / horse
tiistai 15. kesäkuuta 2021
Farben und mobiles Solito
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!Yes, amazing this colouring.
These guys are enjoying the sound and all the green stuff
in our vegetable garden. Hm.
Summer taste.
Where are we now?
We are in St. Llorenç, Mallorca. A tiny township next to Artá.
Lucky us, were able to visit a mobile studio!
Mobiles are made of many fragile parts.
And then they hang there, so easy, so weightless.
But it is quite a lot of calculating and trying and balancing
until you get the right proportions.
That's what we learned from the makers.
Check for more great pics and further info here:
A mobile is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage
of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from
which weighted objects or further rods hang. The objects hanging
from the rods balance each other, so that the rods remain more or
less horizontal. Each rod hangs from only one string, which gives
it the freedom to rotate about the string. An ensemble of these
balanced parts hang freely in space, by design without coming
into contact with each other. (Wikipedia)
lauantai 12. kesäkuuta 2021
Huuhkajat EM
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Today the Finnish football team is participating in
the European Championships for the very first time ever!
Best known UHUs in Germany! It's glue.
Finnisch für Anfänger:
HUUHKAJA = Uhu / eagle owl
From huuhkajat (“eagle owls”);
thus called because a pair of eagle owls used to nest in the Helsinki
Olympic Stadium, which also serves as the home arena of the team.
And then something happened, a Danish played collapsed.
The match suspended.
Then game over.
Finally good news.
keskiviikko 9. kesäkuuta 2021
United Europe
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Seen today.
Hi guys, I just have to post this pic.
Can you explain me the logic of this set?
Basically the same menu in different languages.
tiistai 8. kesäkuuta 2021
Paella afternoon
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Again boring garden pics? NO!
This is just some leftover of an artichoke.
The big paella afternoon started with chopping,
chopping artichokes, cauliflower ...
Oh, the mussels you do not have to chop, just shop before.
Ant the butcher chops the chicken as well,
the bones need to be included when cooking.
And here we go, this is MY paella: no seafood.
For the seafood paella some ingredidences here,
the white cubes are chopped octopus rings.
There they go, carefully adding stuff to the paella pan.
The prawns had to be cooked separately. Why?
Check your recipes.
The rice added. Note the lineal form.
Boiling boiling boiling.
Still boiling.
And here, ready to be served, with prawns and mussels.
And my "little" chicken paella.
If you like seafood this must taste wonderful!
Big thanks to Tinchen!
Paella takes its name from the wide, shallow traditional pan
used to cook the dish on an open fire. Paellameans "frying pan"
in Valencian, Valencia's regional language. As a dish, it may have
ancient roots, but in its modern form it is traced back to the mid-
19th century, in the rural area around the Albufera lagoon adjacent
to the city of Valencia, on the east coast of Spain. (Wikipedia)
Miss Alice brought ensaimada de cream quemada
from Campos. Excellent! Gracias.
The ensaïmada de Mallorca is made with strong flour, water, sugar,
eggs, mother dough and a kind of reduced pork lard named saïm.
The handmade character of the product makes it difficult to give an
exact formula, so scales have been established defining the proportion
of each ingredient, giving rise to an excellent quality traditional product.
The name comes from the Catalan word saïm, which means 'pork lard'
(from the Arabic shahim, meaning 'fat'). (Wikipedia)
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