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Where I used to live hot water came very quickly. Either the tap was near the heater, or the hot water pipe was narrower. Enormous quantities of grey water used for bathing, showering, washing clothes, rinsing, could be easily diverted to a tank and used to flush the toilet, water the vegetables etc...

Eisheiligen? Schafskälte! The Schafskälte, sheeps cold, is a possible period of cold weather in June, the old farmers knew about it, their grandparents told them, so they sheared the sheep later when the risk of cold weather was negligible. Oftentimes the poor beasts suffered in the normal warm weat...

Weigh letters and try to keep them under 20 Gramm. The stamp prices in Germany are complicated, and a "Standardbrief" is smaller than a "Kompaktbrief"! I would have thought kompakt was smaller than standard 😕 Besides the Deutsche Post, there are private post services with lower t...

Ms Elphicke of the conservative tories defected to labour, but I thought she was on the right wing, not the left

I make my own soup instead of buying, makes a bit of work, but is it cheaper than ready soup from the food store?

Trouble with fuel prices: you go off the Autobahn to find cheap fuel, drive several kilometers, the gas station is on the other side so you have to go to the next roundabout or junction to change sides. Feels like a lot of time. Some people are so mean, they drive to Luxemburg or Poland to fill up. ...

I guess enjoying football matches and concerts are not Grundbedürfnisse, basic needs, so the legislators might not be very interested.

I think we had this on the earlier forum. I am planning to "save" money soon by collecting cherries. Makes a bit of work but it feels much better than buying fruit. And I find myself re-reading a book I read more than twenty years ago. Saves acquiring a new book, I guess. What other ways c...

Friedrich Merz might be the next Bundeskanzler, thr CDU might want to change the law back again.

The Bundespräsident took 60 kg of Döner meat on his visit to Türkei, I do (not) believe it!

Sold my vote for a couple of ballpoint pens today

I checked the theses, but no party is offering Freibier 👻 Freikugelschreiber, free ballpoint pens, are usually available. And useful notepads, sticky notes and more. The EU recently passed legislation requirung caps on disposable drink bottles to be fixed to the bottle! A good start, perhaps more s...

I wonder if this digital exclusion applies to other big events such as Taylor Swift concerts and the upcoming Paris Olympics. I would not want to experience either of those even if someone paid me.🙃 But there are still millions of people who do not have smartphones. Perhaps legislation could be con...

I care a lot about my safety (and the safety of others!). Fast €bikes and €scooters are a curse on narrow cycleways. Countless motor vehicle drivers routinely ignore the law. Speed kills. It is a great shame that the Polizei do next to nothing to enforce traffic law. It could be so easy. .. In think...

One can think what one will about €bikes but I think people who get €bikes should be encouraged to keep their conventional cycles ("pushbikes"!) too and even ride them occasionally. Riding a pushbike, like it or not, already provides financial and health and enviromental benefits. So I wo...

Yippee, I got my Wahlbenachrichtigung for the Europawahl so I can vote by post! There are lots of billboards but no leaflets in the post yet. Nobody has asked for my vote. .. What should you do if an undesireable party asks for your vote? Tell them to go away? No, engage them in conversation for as ...

Maybe they often park in double line because they want to be as close to your door as possible since they are carrying things that are extremely heavy. Just an idea. If they park on the road and slow down motor traffic: no problem! I recently helped a blind person walk to the shops. They should be ...

Delivery drivers routinely ignore the law. For example completely blocking the footway when there is plenty of space to park on the road, or leaving the engine running, oftentimes several offences at once. Would it be worth refusing delivery? Does the employer care about offences? Probably not. .. A...

If they park illegally, leave the engine running etc, do not give them anything!

You might be justified to refuse the delivery even, and inform the Ordnungsamt.

Local elections tomorrow, May 2, could provide some pointers.

How boring, the UK Premier League is much more exciting