RDP Saturday: Book Club

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Books were always part of my life, or I could say our life. I quickly discovered that Mr. Swiss enjoyed books and found that our tastes were very similar. He mainly had German language books, I had English books, but after getting together I discovered that many of his books were the same as mine, just in another language. After our many years together the book collection grew and I must admit I gave many away as we just did not have the room for the collection. He no longer reads so much, just the newspaper. However since the wonderful development of Kindle my problem of knowing where to put more books has been solved and I mainly now collect them on the Kindle.

I now upload my reading material on this electronic device. I seem to have room to infinity on my device, although I dare say one day it will have no room for more. I am a constant customer of Amazon, they have a wonderful choice.

What do I read? I do not belong to a book club, although it would interest me if I found one. I have read most of the classics, from my collection and also from Mr. Swiss collection. The German classics I can now read in the original language, have even read the complete Thomas Mann books Also Joseph Roth and Siegfried Lenz to mention a few German authors, in the original German and naturally most of the classic english books.

Today my taste is more in criminal fiction. At the moment I am reading through a criminal series written by an english authoress, Angela Parsons. I like the suspense build up in criminal stories.

I do not want to be an advertisement for Amazon, but they do have an extensive choice of books and at reasonable prices. Books can be quite expensive especially if you want something special leather bound with exceptional print. With my Kindle I can alter the text size and type and I also have illumination when it would get darker: especially useful when reading in bed, although not something I often do. I am not a person that prefers the smell and form of a book, especially as I get older. Books can get quite heavy.

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RDP Friday: Voyage

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Alas my voyages now are only local view from my appartment. At least the Jura mountains are watching over our area and they are always interesting. They line the local main road in the distance and when I walk to the home where Mr. Swiss now lives they line my way. Sometimes there are heavy clouds, but during the Summer mainly blue skies. I love this view. There were times when Mr. Swiss and I would take the loccal cable car and travel to the heights with a view of our little village and nearby town of Solothurn, but they were days gone by.

There are seven chains of these mountains, and if you cross the seven you would arrive in the town of Basel on the borders of Switzerland: an interesting town meeting Germany and France by travelling across the border. We speak Swiss German in our ares but over the mountain French is the language and ober the next mountain you will probably be speaking Swiss German again, although a different dialect to what I am used to. We Swiss understand them all mostly and can tell usually the area where people live.

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Ragtag Daily Prompt, RDP: Diabolical

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Amazing what creeps around in our garden sometimes. As long as he stays outside, it is OK. I just do not want him to invade my private space.

We have had some strange accidents in Switzerland since the new Year. It all began in a club in Montreux where there was a fire during the night. The were many casualties, mostly young people – some were fatal and many were in hospital afterwards.

The next problem was one of our post busses used to transport pasengers, mainly in the mountainous areas or in isolated villages. One of the passengers had suicidal intentions with fire. The inflammable liquid not only ended his own life but the complete bus was destroyed by the fire again with many fatal casualties.

The next disaster was this week when one of the cable cars in the mountains fell from the wire. It was almost empty but one lady was in it, another fatal accident.

I wish I could give more positive news. We are a small country and it is strange that we suddently have so many fatal events.

Otherwise everything under control in my area.

RDP Wednesday: Stroll

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Mr. Swiss and I often went for a stroll when we were younger. Today it is no longer possible, but I miss the walks we had, mostly along the local river into town. I am no longer able to walk without my walker and Mr. Swiss is now in a wheelchair. Even where I live I rarely see people strolling. It is a small village and there is nowhere interesting to stroll.

However our wild life compensates for strolling. This cat was taking a stroll in our area, although he/she was not so happy that I took a photo, but cats prefer to do their own thing.

Today I took a stroll on my scooter to visit Mr. Swiss. Unfortunately he is now getting more confused talking about events in our life, that actually never happened. He is now 86 years old and aging is not being very kind to him.

RDP Sunday: Silhouette

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It is a hobby of some in Switzerland to create such wonderful silhouettes with paper and scissors. They are very talented and the results are often excellent.

Mr. Swiss and I were once on a journey in the Swiss Kanton of Bern. It was in his working days and we were all staying for a few days in the area. One of the excursions we made was to one of those talented people that created their own silhouttes. Mainly the subjects were from the local folklore. This one was of a Swiss folkmusic group which were were given and many years later I still have it framed in my appartment.

I remember the artist asked if we had a special wish for a subject. Mr. Swiss was then engaged by the Volvo group in the section dealing with heavy trucks, so one of our colleagues made the request for a Truck cut out. The woman dealing with the results said she had never had a request for a truck and it definitely was not something that you would find on such a silhoutte, which caused quite a lot of laughter.

Yes those were the happy days of my past life but I still have the memories and souvenirs.

RDP Saturday: Engine

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Living in a farming area, the main engines we see here belong to agricultural machines. They sow the goods, reap them and collect the finished results. In this case the machine was on its way across the field gathering what had grown and collecting the finished goods in a truck container. During the Winter months there is not so much action but during the Summer they are everywhere.

Spending my younger days in London I never saw such machines in action, but now I am enjoying this relative new experience: the smells, noise and even the dirt of the results of the farming. Sometimes I think I should have married a farmer.

I have returned

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Yes I have renewed after some convincing from a few colleagues, who I have never met in my life and only online. I do not have a lot to say at the moment. but I will return.

After being absent for some time, I have almost forgotten how this blogging exercise functions, so pleas bear with me. As you can see I am still alive and typing.