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Transblawg | 23. April 2012 —Here are some pictures taken in the Stadtpark recently, showing a curious feature of Germany - shepherds sometimes turn up in the middle of town with their flock. I wonder what roads they come along? There were three dogs and an electric fence, which was moved around so they cropped different areas …
Transblawg | 23. März 2012 —It's funny how you can walk around with a camera and be absolutely blind. A few years ago - it was 2006 - I was in Carey Street, near the famous lawyers' pub Seven Stars. I saw a window with two barristers' wigs on black velvet, so I took some time to photograph them. (I even blogged this at the tim…
Transblawg | 10. Januar 2012 —Stunde der Wintervögel. Birds spotted by me in the Stadtpark (lower level) on Sunday from 13.10 to 14.10 (largest number at one time) in a break from the rain, river running high, no sun: Blackbird Amsel 7 Fieldfare Wacholderdrossel 1 Magpie Elster 3 Blackheaded gull Lachmöwe 4 Mallard Stockente 7 C…
Transblawg | 28. Dezember 2011 — This insect hotel is more like Bates Motel.…
SPIEGEL ONLINE | 26. September 2011 —Es war ein legendäres Malheur: Für das Cover ihrer Platte "Animals" ließen Pink Floyd vor 35 Jahren ein aufblasbares Schwein in die Luft gehen. Die Halteseile rissen und das Tier schwebte in die Flugrouten für London Heathrow. Nun wurde die Aktion neu aufgelegt.…
Transblawg | 15. Juli 2011 — ... of the canine school, a Frau Schmitt, claiming that some of the dogs spoke a few words. “At a Nazi study course, a talking dog was once asked ‘Who is Adolf Hitler?’ and replied ‘Mein Führer!” Bondeson writes of these claims, noting that “the Nazis, who had such conspicuous disregard for hu…
Transblawg | 22. Januar 2011 —Well, maybe just one more picture from this morning. …
Transblawg | 21. Januar 2011 —I gather it's Squirrel Appreciation Day in the USA, so here are my most recent squirrel photos: a red squirrel in Fürth in November, and a grey squirrel in Upminster in December. I won't be making an annual event of this, though. …
Rechtslupe | 16. Dezember 2010 — ... Aufnahme weiterer Hunde, auch wenn sich deren Zahl auf unter 10 reduziert haben sollte. Wegen der Vielzahl der vorgefundenen Hunde und der Äußerung der Antragstellerin, die Hunde für den Verein “Animals Hope”, zu halten untersagte der Landkreis der Antragstellerin in einer weiteren Verfügun…
Transblawg | 14. November 2010 —I know it's Sunday, but I'd like to ploug a law book. Before I came to Germany, when I was first encountering German law, I picked up two volumes of this at Wildy's , 2nd edition, 1968 and 1971, for £5 and £6, which was a bargain at the time (about 1980). E.J. Cohn was a German who was a barrister o…
Transblawg | 7. Oktober 2010 — This is a bit of a cheat as I see it in Nuremberg Zoo, in an en closure that the public can go into, with ibis, black stork and spoonbill. But they are beginning to breed in England, along with little egrets. I just wanted to link to this brilliant headline: Egrets? We've had a few, in the Independ…
Transblawg | 6. März 2010 — ... Guardian focus on the only current animal lawyer, Antoine Goetschel in Zurich. ... more exacting. Dogs are deemed "social animals" and, therefore, "must have daily ... in German), the use of an animal lawyer makes proceedings more efficient: ... law relating to religious slaughter of animals…
Transblawg | 15. Februar 2010 —How to ruin the German language without anglicisms. (The other side says 'Steuerzahler'). …
Transblawg | 30. Januar 2010 —More unexpected birds being forced to go to the Pegnitz: And here is their devious relative - usual view of little grebe: Occasional glimpse: …
