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Yes, choirs are great! I sing with my local choir and a smaller group and probably have sung going on for two hundred songs of all styles, all in the alto part. Got good at spotting archaic usages of the genitive in old songs. OH and I have long-service 'medals' !

Good headline in the paper:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... y-suggests

I won't bother reading the whole article, as I've been disappointed by that sort of thing before. Instead, I'll trust the headline tells me all I need to know, and shall assume it applies to consuming all fermented beverages (a positive mental attitude is doubtless also helpful). Very helpful for tonight's Maifest.

Happy today because it's already May, and this year, 2025, I have yet to add petrol to my car

Plus, gorgeous sunshine and spent few hours MTBiking in the lovely forest on our doorstep.
Afternoon a nap, family walk, and tidying the garden. If time, also jogging, but no time....

Happy today because shorty´s car got a new TÜV!!!!!

The car was actually purchased in 2019 by and for my boyfriends Father, at a price of less than €1000, and only intended for him to use to get to the local pub and back ( a round trip of less than 1 km!)

Well, the car is still up and going , six years later, and on Sunday I will drive it back to Shorty in Regensburg. Yahoo!!!

I'm happy because my best girlfriend came home after 2 week holiday. We went out for tapas and had a great catch-up. My friends are more important to me than ever.

An article was published in England (and online) today from Bad Muenstereifel's youngest budding sports journalist. I spend most of my time worrying about the academic difficulties with Kid 1, so I'm very happy (and proud) to have something more positive from Kid2. It is particularly pleasing because English is not Tom's first language:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... of-my-team

Robinson100 wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 8:09 pm Happy today because shorty´s car got a new TÜV!!!!!

The car was actually purchased in 2019 by and for my boyfriends Father, at a price of less than €1000, and only intended for him to use to get to the local pub and back ( a round trip of less than 1 km!)

Well, the car is still up and going , six years later, and on Sunday I will drive it back to Shorty in Regensburg. Yahoo!!!

Why do people use the car for journeys this short is something I will never understand.

Alberto wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 10:09 pm

Robinson100 wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 8:09 pm Happy today because shorty´s car got a new TÜV!!!!!

The car was actually purchased in 2019 by and for my boyfriends Father, at a price of less than €1000, and only intended for him to use to get to the local pub and back ( a round trip of less than 1 km!)

Well, the car is still up and going , six years later, and on Sunday I will drive it back to Shorty in Regensburg. Yahoo!!!

Why do people use the car for journeys this short is something I will never understand.

- he couldn´t have walked that far!!!

Alberto wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 10:09 pm

Robinson100 wrote: ↑Fri May 02, 2025 8:09 pm Happy today because shorty´s car got a new TÜV!!!!!

The car was actually purchased in 2019 by and for my boyfriends Father, at a price of less than €1000, and only intended for him to use to get to the local pub and back ( a round trip of less than 1 km!)

Well, the car is still up and going , six years later, and on Sunday I will drive it back to Shorty in Regensburg. Yahoo!!!

Why do people use the car for journeys this short is something I will never understand.

You will when your joints will be really worn out.

When I am no longer fit for walking or cycle 1km, I also won't be fit to drive, or to be at the pub at all. This is what I meant.
But yeah, that's me, I guess others are different.

Alberto wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 2:42 pm When I am no longer fit for walking or cycle 1km, I also won't be fit to drive, or to be at the pub at all. This is what I meant.
But yeah, that's me, I guess others are different.

Bull!
I'm still fit to drive - for large and heavy purchases mostly (like Ikea), not the pub.
Otherwise, I drag myself along using public transport.

Either others are different or you are, Alberto.

Was on a 60. birthday over the weekend (Timing was great as there have been recent reasons to get away from it all).
Met lovely people, some of them I haven't seen in 31 years.
What I pleasure that was.

Now I'm doing the housework that I normally do on Saturdays.

Played chess with my eight year old granddaughter.
Havn’t played a game in 30 years and she is, it seems, a natural player and I was struggling.

CHEEEEEESE! Thank goodness the EU and the UK have finally got around to dealing with the biggest cross border issue of the day. No checks on cheddar. Great, positive news, from an otherwise fairly useless year of politics.
Oh, and Erasmus is on its way back too, which is nice (brings back so many happy memories for me, I was genuinely sad for the youth when it was canned under the exit "deal")

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.

After much needed rain last week we’re back to gorgeous blue skies. Pinchin’ myself again today cuz living’ down yonder on the Bodensee agrees with me. On the train to Winterthur now to visit friends in . Grandchildren arrive from Armenia tomorrow. Lots to be happy about.

Last experiment at work finished today and had a party with some of the colleagues involved. Even better: I suggested my teenager to come along, and much to my surprise she even accepted.