Flickr with a new design! Brocken, of course…

While I browsed through the “ruhrpott” group at Flickr, an active group with already over 30,000 pictures, when suddenly I got a slightly changed design and the “justified” display instead of my preferred “large thumbnails” and furthermore it started at page 1 instead of page 316 which i have asked for and no matter what I tried, it was not possible to get the large thumbnail display at the page 316. You seem to be unable now to jump to a different page directly, only by clicking on the page-links at the bottom which makes not much sense if you want to reach a page farther away than 10 or 15.

The search results on the other side have much larger thumbnails now, but do not seem to offer anything else. And the search forgets if you changed “relevant” to “recent”.

Let’s see if they get it and repair it.

Shopping List

Pommes Schranke

If you want a portion of french fries here in the Ruhr-area you need to utter the easy to remember term: “Eimma Pommes Schranke, bittä!” Yes, as easy as that! But it might get a bit more complicated as explained in the following paragraph:

You might get asked the following in return: “Pilsken beie Schranke?” which translates, roughly, as “Do you want a nice cold Pilsener with the fries?”. The accepted answer is either a short: “Jupp!” (“Yes, please!”) or a more elaborated: “Dachtesse ich würch die Fritten trocken runter, oder watt?!” (“I really appreciate your offer, even if slightly redundant, and accept it with great joy and pleasure!”). You might reject it with: “Nä, lass ma, muß noch faahn.” (“No, thank you but I might risk my drivers licence if I get caught again.”) or something of a similar kind of a distinctly lame excuse.

Did you know…

…that the word monosyllable is a polysyllable?[1]

[1] Melissa Mohr, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing,Oxford University
Press (USA), 2013

Procul Ex Oculis, Procul Ex Mente?

Myosotis sylvatica

Nope.

Tough Beast

Rosmarinus officinalis

A late frost caught this little chap quite unprepared but it survived.

Herb Bed

My new cat litter field herb bed

Yes, these are some larger pebbles. Let’s see if that is enough, but I have some more if needed.
Not much in it yet: the perennial but still frostbitten rosemary in the foreground; the larger green spot to the left of it is the marjoram from last years seed; the curios plant on the middle left, the one with the slightly blueish leaves got sold as a kind of basil that will grow into a larger bush. let’s see if that works here; opposite of it is some lovage crowning; a small bundle of chives from last years bulbs behind that; the tarragon grows quite good despite being on its place for years; in the background to the left is ramson and further back a kind of sorrel (with red leaf-veins); where to find the batch of parsley is left to the reader but if you found it and look to the left you’ll find a small batch of cilantro (from last year’s seed but raised on the window sill).

I still have some tomatoes on the window sill and some chili peppers. The chilis are Habañeros and my own variety based in large parts on the “Hot Thai” strain crossbred with a larger but not very hot variety. Together with a bit of luck I got the size of the larger strain and the capsaicin content of the “Thai Hot” variety. They are also very sweet. The first one to three seconds that is

Yes, the bed edgings need some work, I know

Dandelions

Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia

They keep horses on these fields but as far as I know, dandelions have been connected to stringhalt in Australia? Uh, no, the plant that is toxic for horses is a different species Hypochaeris radicata also known as “false dandelion”which the flower depicted above is not.
Yes. I “jumped” over the fence and checked