Hi Franz
That was 40min before kick-off, the ground was full at kick-off.
I wanted to get Charlie there early to enjoy the atmosphere and have a walk around as the crowds built.
Like you, im not into football, but there is something nice about watching a live game.
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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Best are the matches of two small âvillage teamsâ.
Such matches I have been visiting in Portugal often.
Really funny and familiar and lot of enthusiasm! 
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Yes, here we call them Derby Games. When two local rival towns play.
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There were such ones here in MĂźnchen in the past.
Bayern MĂźnchen - 1860 MĂźnchen.
But meanwhile 1860 is in the 3rd or 4th league.
No more derby games here.
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Today is âGood fridayâ.
Is there anything special you do?
Are there special customs in your country?
The only things I know :
Normally the christian people donât eat meat today. (Fish normally9
There is no dancing allowed in clubs and no other events so far,
but may be thatâs only here in Bavaria.
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Good Friday here is a Bank Holiday which for many means a day off work.
Today we are going to a local Easter Egg hunt and enjoy the weather which is nice for a change 
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here too : holiday.
Today fish. No chips. 
Simple potatoes.
Easter egg hunt?
You did this by yourself in your garden?
Here it is on easter sunday.
Good luck for Charlie finding a lot of eggs! 
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My family avoids meat and some of us fast but I donât know if thatâs a requirement or not
Periodic fasting is good for the body. Trains the systems to convert fat to sugar which is useful.
Thereâs a bit too much fasting going on in Shanghai I readâŚ
Thatâs true I got the ânewsâ from Shanghai before these were published in the press here.
A chinese friend wrote me that, very risky for chinese people.
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Well no-one is without hindsight scope for seeing their own errors. But at least in UK, which is far from perfect and has made many mistakes, nearly every home has 2-3 weeks of dried/tinned food in and the vaccination rate of the elderly / vulnerable is around 98%. So while we may end up back in a lockdown, it wonât immediately spiral so badly.
About 1/3rd of the food Iâm eating now is tinned / dried food I got 1-2 years ago coming up to best-before date and as I eat it I replenish it, another 1/3rd is frozen (donât want more than 3 days of frozen food in a a power outage will make the food rot) got in the last 3 months and 1/3rd is fresh (bread, milk, eggs, veggies etc). If no new food could come in the fresh then the frozen then the tinned/dried is consumed, Iâd likely begin to get hungry after a few weeks.
But thatâs just me who had to get used to eartquakes, Brexit, and so a pandemic lockdown was not difficult.
I canât fathom why they didnât vaccinate better since the last such event. Viruses mutate to increase their transmissiblity easier than they mutate their pathogenicity, as one is changing the outside of the virus (easier) and the other is changing the inside of the virus (harder) and after an initial vaccine (outer) and some natural infection (inner) the population is fairly robustly able to handle new variants. I know they have plenty of good scientists over there so must be something else going amiss to make the scientists ignored.
Hopefully they learn this lesson and better prepared for the next time. Iâm sure we all have still much to learn.
About 15% of UK not fully vaccinated, they are suffering the most, today Iâm off to drop groceries and walk the dog of two unvaccinated ill people. I have the T-shirt to wear.
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Chinese prepare their food mostly from fresh ingredients.
No cans, no storage at all.
May be rice.
Thats a big problem over there at the moment.
And how will one âfeedâ a 26 million city like Shanghai.
Thatâs a logistic problem even for the Chinese government.
Not easy at all.
And I sure we donât hear all what is happening there here in out press.
What do we use canned here in our house?
Not so much : tomatoes for sugo, thatâs I know for I know
We have bread, meat and of course Bratwurst in the deep freezer.
Beer and wine is stored, noodles, rice, flour, potatoes, some salami.
My wife cares about salad, cucumbers in the garden.
May be we can grow potatoes in corner here.
But the garden is small and full of flowers which I will never dare to discuss
if these are useless or not. 
I donât discriminate those people not being vaccinated.
Many here do, but thats wrong.
One has to decide what one is doing with his body.
If people are urged to take the vacc it would be âdictatorshipâ.
Hope you are all fine! 
Yesterday I bought a nice piece I will keep for while.
Its an enameled plate.
First I thought its Chinese, but its Japan.
So itâs much more rare.
Its from the meiji period (ca 1880-1900)
I will create a plate holder later and take a photo.
Constructing that plate holder I have improvise.
But I am sure I can do.
Ready :
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What an lovely peice you found there Franz. Definitely one to keep 
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Though a reanimation is planned and has been promised , its too quiet here.
May be all is now lurking at these giveaways and/or is participating on the unsocial media.
But we the âeternal familyâ have to do our job here.
It doesnât matter if we are recognized or neglected!
I am happy, the garden is full of flowers, our little trees got plenty of blossoms,
Except our royal plump tree the âQueen Victoriaâ.
No blossoms, no plums.
(Last year there were a lot)
Is it caused by âbrexitâ?
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Maybe the plum tree goes similar pattern to the apples? Bountiful one year, modest the next?
Perhaps late frost? I know last year we had bad late frost and cause issues with the raspberries.
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Yes we thought the same!
And because those âQueensâ are a little bit sensitiveâŚheheh!
All fine with you all in the very cold north?
Its so great that we, the very few we are here left, are more than a very close family.
Thatâs one of the reasons we have to stay here and talk/discuss and getting more and more closer.
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Fairing well here, crazy weather though, below zero one day, double digits positive later in the week.
Not sure what the summer will be like, prob hot and dry⌠lol
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If too dry a beer will help you to stand it!
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Too many dry beer, wonât be able to stand⌠lol
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