Wednesday 9 September 2015

Who's that girl?


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Hommage to Lise Meitner at the entrance of Humboldt University, Berlin



Questions without answers







Is this the smartest T-shirt you've ever seen?




Shop window: Traditional clothes







A shop in Friedrichstrasse, Berlin




Postcard from Hamburg











About painting







Art, misery, despair, madness
Jules Blin, 1880




Friday 28 August 2015

Global concerns

survey on  men & sandals









Reasons why I love the German language I




Reason nº 1:


Because "common sense" translates as ...



Healthy human understanding




(gesund Menschenverstand)





...brilliant 

Saturday 6 June 2015

About painting






George Wimpenny, Clara Potts sitting at an easel painting a still life of flowers, 1897




Postcard from Berlin










Madrid Book Fair 2015



 

Open air fair at the Retiro park in Madrid, from 29th May to 14th June
Go for the books, go for the lively atmosphere too.


Friday 3 April 2015

Did you know...?




...that the words "text" and "textile" are family? 


 Why?
 Because they both derive from the latin word "textus", that meant "thing woven",

 (textus being the past participle stem of texere which meant "to weave, to join, fit together, braid, interweave, construct, fabricate, build,")

Can you think of ways in which a text is "woven"?


Yep, yet another joy thanks to the Online Etymology Dictionary