Kunta Kinte's grandson

My journal should really be called "ChickenGeorge" Only teenagers of the late 70s and early 80s and their parents will know what I am talking about. In 1989 when my UK employer sent me to Germany, it was to a company that specialised in chicken restaurants - it was to chickens what Berni Inns was to beef cattle. So from time to time I was addressed by friends by the nickname. However in those days we didn't have a use for pseudonyms. It wasn't until about 2002 when Angie's (ex) brother-in-law Manfred insisted I had to look at a weird thing called Ebay and he gave me the Pferdeschorschi name (Horse Georgie). One does sometimes wonder what is behind some of the journal names.

Thanks to the odd named journals of Velofor and Nogbad, I have at last got a spelling checker working so hope things will improve. And today Mein Kampf was published for the first time in 70 years. The rights were owned by the Bavarian State who banned it from publication but the rights have now run out. Luckily the newest version has the OK from the Jewish Society, it being a split page version, one side the original Hitler text, the other side, critical commentary. As Nogbad well knows, Hitler wrote the book while locked up in Landsberg prison near here.

Not a good day, weather or otherwise. I did a couple of hours of chainsaw log cutting mainly to try and move kidney stones but need to get our firewood store sorted - important to get the wood properly dry and some of the hardwood needs a good 24 months.

I had planned to keep my photography course and Blip separate but simply didn't do more with the camera than a brief attempt to work out how the Macro works. Gave up but didn't go back to the green automatic setting. However only managed a snap of one of our Chabo (Jap) bantam cocks and found things getting worse - yesterday only the background was out of focus, today both fore and background are fuzzy. I didn't publish it to the course Facebook page for fear of repercussions. The Blip community is too nice and yet another reason to invest in saying Blip - so if you have any Fabergé eggs nested away, sell them and buy a few shares in Blipfuture.