This is what may happen if you don’t buy your medicines in a German Apotheke:
And this is what may happen if you stand as a CSU candidate in Fürth:
Bearded ladies/Damen mit Bart
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Category Archives: Fürth
Election posters/Wahlplakate 3
No. 1 (unblemished view in earlier entry):
2 (a much nicer shot) on September 6:
3 on September 19 (I suppose that white space was asking for it):
4 On Saturday September 20, when the campaigners were out again:
The CSU faces are usually attacked first:
And finally, here’s one that is too high to be easily defaced. It shows signs of photoshopping – Bavaria, the place where the sun shines from at least two directions at once:
Fürth sites/Fürther Webseiten
I seem to have missed the Kantinenblogger, who posts photos of his canteen meals every day, mainly from Fürth, but also from Nuremberg, Munich and Auburn Hills (I assume the large proportion of sweetcorn kernels is a matter of choice).
(Discovered from print edition of Fürther Nachrichten)
Another site that has started is about the natural surroundings: www.natuerlich-fuerth.de
In the Stadtzeitung, the Oberbürgermeister reports on how many birds have been seen along the railway line: the black stork (Schwarzstorch), nightingale (Nachtigall), green-footed moorhens (Grünfüßige Teichhühner), the golden oriole (Pirol) and the curlew (Großer Brachvogel).
I wasn’t hopeful of seeing nightingales, a search for the black stork has failed so far – have seen a kingfisher though – I doubt the curlew will be strolling around close, but I was interested by the green-footed moorhen – until I realized that all moorhens are green-footed.
Here is a juvenile moorhen hiding its feet:
and here a muskrat (they must have heard there is no price on their heads at the moment):
War of flags/Fahnenkrieg
I know I turn on the TV too often and expect too much of TV newscasts. But at present the programme consists almost exclusively of observing our boys in Switzerland or Austria. On Monday there was a discussion of what the weather might be like on Wednesday. More than once I’ve heard ‘Einmal (zweimal) werden wir noch wach …’, which usually refers to how many days before you can open your Christmas presents.
The war of the flags is heating up. Cars with German and Turkish flags are those of Turks.
According to Wikipedia, those two flags are tolerated, for example in support of Germany at sports events:
Ihnen ist die Verwendung des Bundeswappens sowie des Bundesschildes und der Bundesdienstflagge untersagt. Trotzdem trifft man häufig auf Flaggen, die der Bundesdienstflagge ähneln, aber statt des Bundesschildes das Staatswappen Deutschlands in der Mitte führen. Die Benutzung dieser inoffiziellen Flaggenvariante – sie hat in ihrer Form zwar keinen hoheitlichen Charakter, könnte jedoch irrtümlich für die selbige gehalten werden – wird geduldet, sofern sie ein Ausdruck nationaler Verbundenheit mit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland darstellt (z. B. bei sportlichen Großveranstaltungen).
