‘At least he built the Autobahn’

 

 

Many post-war Germans remember this phrase from their conversations with parents and grandparents pointing to how the Nazi regime could receive such widespread support.

Perhaps Trump's mercifully only four more years will go down as the time when all this "LGBTQIA-inclusive" language was put back into the rubbish bin of history and we can all breathe a sigh of relief and say, "At least he brought back the proper pronouns".

 

Eine frühzeitige Weihnachtsgeschichte

 

Lies das Buch hier

 

Manchmal weiß man so gar nicht mehr, wo man hingehört im Leben. So wie Betty, die vor den Feiertagen Bilanz zieht: "Es war, als hätte ich zu leben vergessen." Wie ein riesiges Plüschschwein namens Erika dem Leben wieder einen - wenn auch verborgenen - Sinn gibt, davon erzählt Elke Heidenreich in einer ihrer schönsten Geschichten.

 

 

Und keiner kann den melancholisch-versöhnlichen Ton besser ins Bild setzen als Michael Sowa, dessen Erika so anschmiegsam und eigenwillig ist, das man sie sofort lieb gewinnt!

 

The true meaning of Christmas

 

 

One of the main reasons we have the custom of giving and receiving presents at Christmas, is to remind us of the presents given to Jesus by the three Wise Men: Frankincense, Gold and Myrrh.

I think frankincense and myrrh are slightly out of fashion, and my budget doesn't run to gold, so what to give as a Christmas present to those from whom I expect yet more useless gifts this Christmas?

How many times have you encountered the "Batteries not included" message on the packaging of a battery-powered appliance which you received but couldn't use until you had bought some batteries?

It's pretty annoying, isn't it? So this year I have decided to turn this message on its head and just give them the batteries.

Merry Christmas from the Wise Man at Nelligen.