Herb Hill - where the Bell Tolls

Could also be translated as Cabbage Hill or even Kraut Hill. The original is "Krautenberg" .... take your choice. The house to the left is owned by an English/German couple with horses & bees. The only other property at this crossroads, is a farm but 100m down the hill is a further house. Herewith the guided tour of this metropolitan hamlet is ended.

Never ceases to amaze me that the German love of precise numbers has not got to the Postcode system. This hamlet of around 10 people has the same postcode as the surrounding area with around 10,000 inhabitants and covering at least an area of 100km². The German system doesn't allow house names and a street name can only be allotted once within a postcode, but still seems somewhat primitive compared to the UK. I would like to one day try something out - send myself a postcard while abroad simply addressed with my Surname & Germany. Those Blipers over 50 will remember what a telephone book is: while no longer an accurate bible as it once was, there are no entries with my surname for Germany.

Corinna came over for a ride out with Angie, taking advantage of the dry, sunny weather before the rain comes. Still quite cool which suited Flash who was pretty exhausted at the half way point. Still despite his 11 years and major tumor op a few weeks ago, he typically doesn't know when to give up "being on duty".

So I drove out and picked him up at aforesaid hamlet. Took lots of photos of the horses here but none of them useable and anyway a good tractor, especially a John Deere, always enhances a Blip. The tractor is being driven by a lad, I guess about 8 to 10 y.o. Like the way the dogs take up the fore and rear to protect the girls from the monster.

Have Bliped this location before but today noticed something different, so especially for Tochterpleach and the Pleach's in the Peoples Republic of Scotland, a special photo on Flickr which also helps to explain today's Title.

(I wonder if anyone has forewarned Blip HQ that they may have to rework lots of "About" data)

Got home to find a wonderful email from Switzerland from a Brit, all connected with my "leek garden dibber" and subsequent "ancenstry" Blips, earlier this month. Made my day .... perhaps more another Blipday.

With a spring in my step set about on newest bee project but will take a few days and no rain which won't be the case tomorrow.