Happy Birthday, Kanzelschwalbe!!

Es ist kaum zu fassen: die Kanzelschwalbe feiert heute ihren ersten Geburtstag.
Danke an alle regelmäßigen und unregelmäßige Leserinnen und Leser für die Kommentare, Rückmeldungen, Anfragen und Ermutigung.

Unbelievable: Kanzelschwalbe celebrates its first birthday today.
Thank you to all frequent and less-frequent readers for your comments, feedback, questions and encouragement.

 

Millenium!

Heute Nacht, während ich schlief, kam der 1000. Besucher oder die 1000. Besucherin diesen Monat auf die Seite des Vögelchens. Nur um es nochmal deutlich zu sagen:
1000 Besuche in einem Monat
Das ist ein neuer Rekord.
Danke Euch allen- für´s Lesen, aber auch für´s fleißige Kommentieren.

Tonight-while I was asleep the 1000th visitor came to this website this month. Let´s make it clear again – 1000 hits this month.
That´s a new record!
Thanks to you all for reading and leaving comments.

 

Happy Holy-days!!

There will be three stars on the sky in a couple of minutes which means Erev Pessach is about to start.

To all my jewish readers a very happy and blessed Passover!

To all my christian readers blessed holy days which will lay ahead of us.

 

Bridal hairdo

There is a wedding-fair in my town this weekend.

The idea behind is quite easy: Various businesses which are involved with a wedding present themselves and offer their special wedding packages. Such as hairdressers, restaurants, gown-shops and fashion shows, car-rentals and and and.

And there is also an ecumenical stall where the RC and Lutheran churches present themselves, answer questions, provide information and also a cup of coffee.

I was there this afternoon, too. Its not a big trade-fair. Rather small and pretty familiar.
We had quite a lot of fun, some good talks and „the church“ was well recieved.

There was also enough time to have a look around and the opportunity to get yourself a professional (bridal) hairdressing.

Well- I´m not a bride but I love hair-ups for my long, curly brown hair. But its so hard to make it youself.
So I asked if I could get a classical hairdo.
It took them only 10 minutes. Now I got my „banana“ as we call it. The young hairdresser´s apprentice didn´t know at first what I really wanted. But she learned it from a colleague.
Its really great. Got quite some compliments for it. One of the general managers even said: „Wow- the classy look really suits you. You should wear it more often.“

Unfortunately I couldn´t take a photograph myself.
But this gives you an idea what it looks like:
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But I went to a parish appointment afterwards. They all knew about the fair and „wow-ed“ my „bridal hairdo“.

I should really practice to do it myself. I usually see it on movies only. But it is really an elegant yet professional look
I even don´t want to go to bed as I like it so much. Well with the amount of hairspray they used for it I could probably sleep with it easily anyway.

Good night- in whatever shape your hairdo might be.

 

Wieder da!!

So, Ihr Lieben,
Kanzelschwalbe ist nach fünf wunderschönen sonnigen Skitagen im Allgäu wieder ins heimische Nest heimgekehrt.

Wenn ich ganz übermütig bin und es mit der Technik schaffe, stelle ich morgen mal ein paar Fotos rein.

Immerhin hatte ich in den vergangenen Tagen genügend Zeit zum Lesen und werde daher demnächst auch ein paar Bücher vorstellen.

 

Ein gutes neues Jahr!

Allen regelmäßigen und zufälligen Leserinnen und Lesern meines Blogs wünsche ich ein gutes und gesegnetes neues Jahr!
Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Ihr auch weiterhin immer mal wieder vorbeischauen würdet.

To all regular and frequent readers of this blog my best wishes for 2009!
I´d be more than happy if you come along every now and then.

 

Gebet am Altjahrsabend

Wir schauen zurück

auf das Jahr, das vergangen ist,

Gott unseres Lebens.

Vieles hat es uns gebracht:

Freude, Glück und Erfüllung,

Kummer und Leid,

Trennungen, die weh getan haben.

Wir schauen zurück und übergeben dir alles,

was da war an Beglückendem und an Bedrohlichem.

Nimm es auf bei dir, damit wir frei werden,

altes hinter uns zu lassen,

und das Gute mitzunehmen,

um getrost in das neue Jahr zu gehen.

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all readers!!!

For unto us a child is born…

 

Advent-12. Dezember

Vor 32 Jahren war der 12. 12. ein Sonntag- der 3. Advent, an dem ich getauft wurde.

Daher aus gegebenem Anlass mein Taufspruch, der mich schon seit vielen Jahren begleitet.

„Es sollen wohl Berge weichen und Hügel hinfallen, aber meine Gnade soll nicht von dir weichen, und der Bund meines Friedens soll nicht hinfallen, spricht der HErr, dein Erbarmer“

Jes 54,10

 

Das ganze steht übrigens in einem durchaus adventlichen Kontext.

Gott verheißt in diesen Versen seinem Volk eine neue Gnadenzeit.

 

The Simpsons!

I admit it- I love The Simpsons.

Usually I am not a big cartoon-fan. Particularly not on TV. But The Simpsons are simply different.
Completely.

I started watching it four years ago in New Zealand. Tony, my flatmate and I watched The Simpsons sitting togehter on the Sofa taking turns in hugging Bailey, the cat. It became a sort of an almost daily ritual.

Luckily enough we have The Simpsons in Germany too. Unfortunately not in English but with German syncronisation. This takes a lot off it. But at least we have them.

What I really love about The Simpson is the fact they pull almost everyone´s and everything´s leg and mirror US-American society. Or at least what I think is US-American society as I have never been there. But I feel quite at home at Springfield.

The episode „The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star which was aired today showed it quite clearly. It dealt with religion and was a kind of modern adaptation of Lessing´s Ringparabel as Bart was asking people to pay attention on what all religions and denominations have in common instead of feuding each other.

 

Needed some rest!

I simply needed some rest the last couple of days.

Like my little monsters.

Where are the degus?

I´ll take it slowly but I´ll be back soon.