With heating costs what they are, the local supermarket is offering firewood alongside the seasonal Graberde.

And here, from an artist’s studio in Theaterstraße, another way to fuel the stove (click to enlarge):

The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, on October 30th (it can still be heard online this week and for a few more weeks) dealt with pumpkins.

Some of the programme was a visit to Graz to learn about Styrian pumpkinseed oil, with the help of an interpreter (referred to as a ‘translator’) in parts. Good Austrian accents to be heard in other parts.

Picture from Koarl’s Kernöl.

There’s a cartoon on the need for online resources to be translated at User Friendly.

(Via Bill Poser at Language Log)

There is a Dilbert blog, and it shows the two versions of the cartoon ‘Lawyer with a Porpoise’.

(Via Law & Justice)

The Fürth blog zonebattler’s homezone started a monthly prize picture quiz on October 1st (no-one entered, but the solution is in the comments).

The November puzzle is here.

Meanwhile, here is a Fürth picture question in return: where was this shot taken?
(It’s a very easy one because I didn’t cut out the background – but there are no prizes either).