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• What do you call a German biscuit?

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 11:10 in food, speed, cookies, biscuits, plätzchen, life in germany, butterzeug

  Germans are remarkably restrained when it comes to biscuits (that’s cookies to any readers from over the pond). For eleven months of the year, that is. As soon as Advent comes around, this changes. Traditionally the Germans bake “Plätzch...

• Germany’s New Outside Minister

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 04:15 in comedy, german language, german video

• Hanging out on the Schwebebahn

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 11:30 in monorail, wuppertal, life in germany, schwebebahn, hanging railway

  This week I went with my visiting father and my youngest daughter to Wuppertal and took a ride on the Schwebebahn. My grandfather lived in Wuppertal around 1911 – and he had told my father about the marvellous “hanging railway” whic...

• The steamy art of making grape juice

  Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 10:54 in food, life in germany

  Today was finally time to pick the rest of the grapes. The vine grows all across the pigsty, which I use as an office… and across the front of the barn. In fact, if I don’t cut it back soon, we might actually lose the house. So out came t...

• I have the perfect face for radio!

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 03:58 in books, comedy, cats, life in germany

  This is exciting! I was invited this week to be – get this – a special guest star on Graham Tappenden’s weekly News Quiz. Graham records a podcast of his quiz every other week under the name “Truly German” – though...

• Düsseldorf traffic….GRRRR

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 03:48 in traffic, düsseldorf, life in germany, deutsch britische gesellschaft

  Next time the Düsseldorf city authorities decide to close one of the bridges over the Rhine for resurfacing, they should phone me first and check my schedule. On Thursday I had a speaking appointment at the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft in Düsseld...

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