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After sitting in my FeWo on the schwäbische Alb for a week in wind, rain & T-Storms yesterday the promised good flying weather appeared - but not quite as good as forecast.

Anyhow I managed to complete a 411 km task in just over 5 hours which was probably about the maximum possible for the day.

Franklan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 5:53 pm Miss clogged drain ...

Its so true - since our daughter moved out we rarely have to unblock the drains in the bathroom.

Seen on LinkedIN - a letter to The Times (for non-Brits - a serious British newspaper)

Brilliant

PS: My wife says that this is all true - Oma managed to put her mobile phone out of action yet again.

Robinson100 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 4:37 am I used to enjoy watching "The Good Life", but The Two Ronnies were also good.
Four Candles is a classic!

Ronnie Barker was a master of the English language.

Many years ago I bought the complete set of "Dad's Army" DVDs which still get played during deepest Winter. Not available with German subtitles (surprise) although it does have English ones. " Your name also vil go on ze list - vot is it " Somehow I never got around to acquiring ...

Well I head down South on the A7/A8 to Blaubeuren airfield on Thursday (=few LKWs) hopefully for some decent flying over the next couple of weeks.

Heavy rain shower currently over Pinneberg (West of Hamburg).

Yesterday was also a washout at the airfield, although rain was not as heavy as it is at this moment.

I wouldn't go to your lengths to make actual sausages but I dismantle German sousages sometimes to make sausage rolls, mixing up the meat with breadcrumbs and a random onion/spice/herb mixture rolled up in flaky pastry. They get wolfed down. I do similar, adding some finely chopped dried apricots w...

snowingagain wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 3:52 pm Perhaps try and regard is as an important immune boost for your later years....

I'd got through the Winter without any ills - we'd both been vaccinated against the "Flu".

We had the grandchildren staying with us last week until Friday and as a parting "gift" passed their colds onto me so I'm out of action for several days...

yesterday wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:50 am As long as you do not sell, you have lost nothing with this correction, as it will come back in time, just wait it out,

You just have to live long enough to see the recovery. 4 years is a long time when you are over 70.

I did that prior to my retirement in 2018 & it was the best financial move I ever made,

If you are going to sell the house don't put ANY money into it - you will never get that out again.

If the search goes as far as Pinneberg we can recommend Drs. Schiebler & Schablowsky https://zahnarzt-schiebler.de/ I found the elder Schiebler to be rather arogant but I quickly moved to his colleague Dr. Schablowsky. Not so long ago the elder Schiebler handed the practice over to his son &...

I have good experience with "blue attenuator" (Ger: blaudämpfer) sunglasses.

They filter out part of the blue light - thats what scatters most from water molecules in the atmosphere.
They are brown in colour. I find them to be great when driving or flying...

Tomorrow I fly to Ljubljana via Zörich to attend the 2-day plenary meeting of the International Gliding Commission IGC. The IGC is to gliding as the FIFA is to football. Last year we were in Toulouse where the French fed us famously. I fear the Slovenians are planning to drink us under the table alr...

The letters (one to me & one to my wife) arrived today from our town in Southern Schleswig-Holstein.

Previous rate: 482,48 Eur (annually)

New rate: 480,11 Eur (annually)


Why they didn't just send one notice the "Herr & Frau HEM"...