The Bessere Mitte had wooden models of the shopping centre proposed by Sonae Sierra:#

and the alternative they propose.

The top model corresponds to the three white blocks in the bottom model, which leaves Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße open. This was at the Fürth Stadtfest yesterday. A couple talking to the campaigners felt that a 15,000 square metre shopping centre would be too small, and would not miss the listed buildings that would have to go (or be partly hidden).

I was pleased to hear recently that some of the independent shopkeepers have a parallel initiative. That shows that the opponents of the scheme aren’t just the few people who appeared on the stage at the civic hall meeting. That’s the Arbeitskreis kritische Einzelhändler Fürth.

I think they want us to stop running over cyclists here.

I don’t suppose we’ll have to wait long for Susan Boyle. They just have to cut some footage of listeners with Telekom devices.

This was a week ago, on Easter Sunday, when I got a closer shot of a muskrat (Bisamratte) while hiding behind a tree.

If this had been Detroit, it would have been very appropriate, as there is a rumour that Catholics there were permitted to classify the muskrat as a fish and eat it on Fridays in Lent.

Blogwiese often reloads earlier entries. I must have missed this one: Dialekt ist Privatsache in Deutschland.

In Germany, people do often speak both a dialect and standard German (Hochdeutsch). But the dialect is regarded as a private matter – not the case in Switzerland. In Germany, dialect is spoken at home and with your friends, not in public. The teacher speaks standard German, and the pupils believe their dialect is inferior.