On my walk yesterday I saw Katharina das Große in the window of a health care shop:
Amazon reviews are very harsh on this mobile phone. The main objection seems to be that it isn’t mobile – it won’t fit in a jacket pocket or handbag, so it gets left at home. People also feel they are being treated as if they were disabled. In addition, there may be some functioning problems.
If you scroll down here, you can see it’s at least four times the size of a normal cell phone.
There was a good Dürer exhibition in Nuremberg this year, but it was very full. Fortunately I got there very early in the day, but still by eleven it was too full to read the rather well-done and succinct texts, especially with bifocals.
And I have still not visited the Albrecht-Dürer-Schwein in Hundshaupten.
However, Dürer did appear on a float at the Fürth harvest festival procession last week:
The text is a reference to the refusal by the Alte Pinakothek in Munich to send a self-portrait to the exhibition because it was not suitable for transport.
Here’s a Protestant church representative showing how exciting 18th-century glasses were:
The metal plate has been released to say ‘auf eigenes Risiko gestattet’ – it usually says just ‘verboten’, I think. But at -15°C, too cold – only two skaters at 13.00.
Meanwhile, here is a warmer headcovering (my upper cheeks have been getting very cold):
And here possibly a Scot:
or two
In case anyone’s missed it, a tree attacker has been at work in this area – in four areas in fact – partially sawing through about sixty young trees in December – which has now come to light. The tool used was apparently a Japanese hand saw, which makes slender cuts. In Germany you can see the contribution on the quer TV programme, where a number of people were interviewed in the Stadtpark, and one town worker speculated that anyone who killed all these trees probably hates trees because his or her family members were killed by trees falling on them. More convincing was the forensic psychologist’s idea that it was possibly someone who worked for the town(s), possibly with responsibility for the trees, was then sacked and feels powerless, compensating by damaging trees.
Picture and commentaries on the quer blog (one of the commenters even remembers someone who was moved from a position in Nuremberg after a public outcry following a removal of trees on the Wörder See).
It’s very cold here at the moment (-10°C but sunny).
The City Center, the hardest-to-renovate shopping centre in Germany, with 351 owners (not a joke), was supposed to have closed on 13 January, and most of it did. A few shops turn out to have longer leases. What’s more, it seems the final agreement of the investor has not been obtained.