Menu 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Home Updates list Contents list Site search About Beginning Schubert Schubert collection 2019 Scrapbook for December Legitimacy restored Posted on UTC 2019-12-01 02:01 Words: 239; reading time: 1 minute Schubert in love Four trembling hands in F minor. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-12-21 08:16 Words: 4,919; reading time: 22 minutes Limericks in German Liebesgrüsse aus Limerick: A suitable case for treatment. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-12-18 16:44 Words: 614; reading time: 2 minutes Chillin' with the Kinskys Joseph von Spaun touches his forelock. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-12-18 08:02 Words: 8,827; reading time: 40 minutes Quote and image of the month for December Quote: Werner Bergengruen, The Shepherds. Image: Jules Bastien-Lepage, The Annunciation to the Shepherds. Posted on UTC 2019-12-16 07:13 Words: 1,110; reading time: 5 minutes 13 December Saint Lucy's Day What's in a name? From obscure beginnings to theological eminence. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-12-10 09:12 Words: 9,712; reading time: 44 minutes Comments on Figures of Speech A new plaything for our readers – not just for Christmas, either. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-12-01 14:16 Words: 853; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for November In the bleak midwinter | 240 years ago today | The illustrated Schubert collection | A Boris™ Johnson lie tracker Posted on UTC 2019-11-01 02:01 Words: 764; reading time: 3 minutes Wrecking the Brexit Party brand Nigel breaks his new toy. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-11-12 13:27 Words: 1,012; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2019-11-13 Dice throwing for beginners The inscrutable UK election on 12 December. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-11-04 17:32 Words: 723; reading time: 3 minutes All Souls' Day 2019 2 November in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-11-02 14:22 Words: 660; reading time: 3 minutes Quote and images of the month for November Quote: Robert Frost, The Star Splitter. Images: The Orion constellation. Posted on UTC 2019-11-01 07:27 Words: 1,602; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for October Citation functionality changes | That Brexit Deal thingy | A geological excursion | Greta Thunberg: climate victim (2) Posted on UTC 2019-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,260; reading time: 5 minutes Climate facts and a Climate Credo Essential tools for surviving the Gretaceous era. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-10-30 14:22 Words: 1,048; reading time: 4 minutes Boris™ blusters on The terror of the empty ditch on Halloween: is the corpse still walking the earth? Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-10-29 11:04 Words: 855; reading time: 3 minutes Thuringia has voted! Another rip in the increasingly tattered fabric of German politics. Still no change though – yet. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2019-10-28 11:14 Words: 1,082; reading time: 4 minutes Hate speech sanitizer A simple tool for those who don't want to cause offence. 'So shines a good deed in a naughty world'. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2019-10-26 16:14 Words: 1,032; reading time: 4 minutes Switzerland has voted! Be still my beating heart. Or, even better, be young and be green. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-10-20 19:19 Words: 500; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2019-10-21 Quote and image of the month for October Quote: Georg Trakl, Verklärter Herbst. Image: Peder Severin Krøyer, Wine Harvest in the Tyrol. Posted on UTC 2019-10-18 10:17 Words: 614; reading time: 2 minutes Another Schubert portrait turns up Well, its got the specs at least, but nothing else. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-10-17 07:19 Words: 1,477; reading time: 6 minutes Dividing the two Irelands More at stake than the administrative fudge of a 'backstop'. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-10-15 14:09 Words: 1,258; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2019-10-20 The green daydream A 20-second animated glimpse into the psychopathology of the green mind. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-10-14 09:05 Words: 2,267; reading time: 10 minutes Updated on 2019-10-15 The quince Still inedible after two and a half millennia. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-10-08 14:03 Words: 1,228; reading time: 5 minutes Green steering charges Bad if they don't work, terrible if they do. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-10-04 14:09 Words: 3,071; reading time: 13 minutes Updated on 2019-10-05 Scrapbook for September The Brexit deal explained | On the rug edge | Half-baked | Dim and dimmer | Greta Thunberg: climate victim | Home page illustrations | Die Schöne Müllerin website Posted on UTC 2019-09-01 02:01 Words: 1,273; reading time: 5 minutes A Swiss simpleton's guide to Global Warming More fakery from MeteoSwiss, created for and by simpletons. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-09-29 14:28 Words: 1,010; reading time: 4 minutes A Schwanengesang website Will this delusion ever end? Doesn't look like it. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-09-29 10:08 Words: 781; reading time: 3 minutes The trembling aspen A look at the literary and musical life of a Populus tremula, with a contribution from Franz Schubert. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-09-27 14:12 Words: 6,752; reading time: 30 minutes Updated on 2019-09-30 Boris™ in the bunker The end cannot come soon enough for the incredible one. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-09-19 11:16 Words: 1,272; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2019-10-07 David Cameron Risen from the crypt but still not getting it. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-09-18 08:43 Words: 937; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2019-09-19 Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Rudolf Hagelstange Bei den schwarzen Baptisten. Image: Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With. Posted on UTC 2019-09-17 13:02 Words: 1,928; reading time: 8 minutes The New Age dawns in the EU Social engineering in the service of the European Way of Life. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-09-14 14:03 Words: 972; reading time: 4 minutes Dr Rita Steblin An obituary notice for the Beethoven and Schubert scholar. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-09-13 10:13 Words: 320; reading time: 1 minute The European Green Deal Double Dutch: for 'Deal' read 'Diktat'. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-09-11 11:27 Words: 444; reading time: 2 minutes Franz Schubert and Ludwig Rellstab Yet more Schwanengesang nonsense. Seven execrable poems, six desperate settings, one super hit. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-09-09 14:27 Words: 9,402; reading time: 42 minutes Updated on 2020-10-22 No change in Sachsen and Brandenburg State elections in Germany: All quiet on the eastern front – and everywhere else for that matter. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2019-09-02 14:18 Words: 1,174; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for August Tempting fate | The Dam Busters | Contempt karma Posted on UTC 2019-08-01 02:01 Words: 312; reading time: 1 minute German solidarity Sticking it to the rich. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2019-08-29 17:22 Words: 1,449; reading time: 6 minutes The chestnut tree at the gate How to learn German in nine days. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-08-28 09:27 Words: 2,321; reading time: 10 minutes Updated on 2019-10-04 Heinrich Heine and Franz Schubert Two worlds collide. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-08-26 09:07 Words: 6,392; reading time: 29 minutes News from the bunker The Swiss People's Party readies itself for the next election. Are they mad? Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-08-20 09:47 Words: 299; reading time: 1 minute Franz Schubert and Heinrich Heine Dismantling Schwanengesang — and about time, too. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-08-14 17:12 Words: 18,353; reading time: 1 hour 23 minutes Updated on 2019-09-15 Quote and image of the month for August Quote: Arthur Schopenhauer Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Image: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness. Posted on UTC 2019-08-01 07:32 Words: 774; reading time: 3 minutes Swiss National Day, 1 August Alphorns in high places. Posted by George Meredith on UTC 2019-08-01 07:12 Words: 576; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for July Boris™ again | Remainers still at the controls | On the moon | Carl Gustaf saves the planet Posted on UTC 2019-07-01 02:01 Words: 330; reading time: 1 minute Boris™ blusters A ten-minute rhetorical shambles from the new UK Solon. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-07-27 13:14 Words: 5,239; reading time: 23 minutes Boris™ Start as you mean to go on – with a shambles. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-07-24 09:30 Words: 458; reading time: 2 minutes Nothing has been learned Looking in vain for some backbone in dealing with Iran. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-07-21 09:22 Words: 576; reading time: 2 minutes Matter and light Clearing away legacy thinking about colour. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2019-07-19 12:22 Words: 2,068; reading time: 9 minutes Catullus and Lesbia The arc of a love-hate affair. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-07-16 14:01 Words: 1,781; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for June Boris the Card | Lindenbaum | The choice is theirs | News from the asylum | The last insanity Posted on UTC 2019-06-01 02:01 Words: 863; reading time: 3 minutes Why does the Devil have all the best tunes? Because he has the best people writing them. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-06-24 13:26 Words: 547; reading time: 2 minutes The Green-Red media infestation in Germany Mixing green and red makes brown – no arguing with that. Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2019-06-22 14:13 Words: 985; reading time: 4 minutes Getting down with the kids Swiss climate propaganda for little ones of all ages. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-06-21 17:21 Words: 285; reading time: 1 minute Schubert the Insignificant Time to get rid of the 'Circles of Friends'. While we are about it, let's cast a gimlet eye on the Schubertiaden, those instruments of exploitation and oppression. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-06-21 08:21 Words: 6,435; reading time: 29 minutes Goethe on ice Showing off in Frankfurt and Weimar. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-06-16 08:22 Words: 4,333; reading time: 19 minutes Updated on 2019-11-13 Could a UK prime minister be worse than Theresa May? We are about to find out. The dreary political months in prospect in the UK. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-06-10 10:43 Words: 1,044; reading time: 4 minutes Diving deep into Goethe's Der Fischer Keeping cool on the bottom with the eighteen year-old Franz Schubert. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-06-08 16:51 Words: 8,922; reading time: 40 minutes Updated on 2019-06-12 How many people listen to Schubert's music these days? Not many. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-06-02 14:03 Words: 1,945; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for May Calm and contented | Doris Day | Seen recently in passing Posted on UTC 2019-05-01 02:01 Words: 293; reading time: 1 minute The European Parliament election 2019 No comfort for Brexiters as the green-red tsunami rolls on. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-05-27 09:07 Words: 763; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2019-05-27 The Tory party at prayer They are going to need all the divine intervention they can get. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-05-26 13:09 Words: 911; reading time: 4 minutes Not a portrait of Franz Schubert Let's sort it all out, once and for all. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-05-23 08:21 Words: 9,494; reading time: 43 minutes Updated on 2019-05-28 Franz Schubert's Mensch What did the preacher in Zseliz mean? Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-05-13 08:42 Words: 4,697; reading time: 21 minutes Updated on 2019-05-14 19 May: Another day, another referendum Another act of Swiss obeisance to its international partners. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-05-06 09:12 Words: 990; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2019-05-26 5 May 1799: A little local difficulty in Switzerland 220 years ago in the land of neutrality, peace and compromise. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-05-05 15:07 Words: 8,149; reading time: 37 minutes Updated on 2019-05-08 Quote for the first day of May From romance to realism Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-05-01 10:21 Words: 523; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for April Blending in | David Lama | Sunday morning coming down | Lest we forget | To leave or not to leave… Posted on UTC 2019-04-01 02:01 Words: 1,340; reading time: 6 minutes Walpurgisnacht Chimney breasts – bottoms, too. Can Walpurgisnacht survive the #metoo era? Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2019-04-28 10:03 Words: 352; reading time: 1 minute Two fabled stones from Graubünden A walk on the wild side to Saint Zeno's Stone and the Baby Stone, both currently gathering moss. Posted by George Meredith on UTC 2019-04-24 19:06 Words: 3,766; reading time: 17 minutes Updated on 2019-04-26 Pollen Earlier and more pollen – another nail in our climate coffin. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-04-17 11:15 Words: 2,768; reading time: 12 minutes Notre Dame: What now? Knock it down and build something better. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-04-16 13:53 Words: 1,124; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2019-04-17 Isaiah the Obscured Where is he when we need him? Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-04-15 12:43 Words: 5,022; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2019-10-30 All things Winterreise An impressive new website for the Schubert/Müller song cycle. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-04-11 08:07 Words: 302; reading time: 1 minute Updated on 2019-07-16 Scientists – dontcha luv em? Not much. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-04-03 12:04 Words: 5,729; reading time: 26 minutes Updated on 2019-04-20 Switzerland All rocks and hard places at the moment. The old Switzerland has gone, but can the new one survive? Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2019-04-01 10:04 Words: 5,722; reading time: 26 minutes Updated on 2019-07-28 Scrapbook for March Pete North: defiant to the end Posted on UTC 2019-03-01 02:01 Words: 344; reading time: 1 minute Heloise Höchner's first and last love That dithering, heartless narcissist, Franz Grillparzer. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-03-20 12:04 Words: 22,777; reading time: 1 hour 43 minutes Updated on 2019-04-10 A farewell to Google The new Figures of Speech site search. Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2019-03-04 17:50 Words: 1,404; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for February New: citation function | Let them eat plastic | http/https on Figures of Speech Posted on UTC 2019-02-01 02:01 Words: 598; reading time: 2 minutes Wilhelm Müller's 'three suns' Memories of Die Winterreise in the current northern hemisphere cold snap. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-02-01 11:04 Words: 1,197; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for January Brexit: Are we there, yet? | Why was this website taken offline etc.? Posted on UTC 2019-01-01 02:01 Words: 541; reading time: 2 minutes In praise of simplicity Francis Jammes' Prayer to go to Paradise with the Donkeys. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-01-29 14:45 Words: 1,318; reading time: 5 minutes Speaking in tongues through a glass darkly Bernard-Henri Lévy – madness mangled. Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-01-27 16:36 Words: 1,613; reading time: 7 minutes Wer böpperlet a der chammer a? Burns Night, 25 January. Night-time pranks, Swiss style. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-01-25 14:23 Words: 724; reading time: 3 minutes Doris Leuthard: smiling through A review of Werner Vogt's new biography of a Swiss political superstar. Posted by George Meredith on UTC 2019-01-24 11:04 Words: 5,387; reading time: 24 minutes Brexit: the end is in sight But what end would that be? Who knows? Posted by Thersites on UTC 2019-01-17 11:12 Words: 520; reading time: 2 minutes Dass sie hier gewesen D 775: Rückert and Schubert Two lyrical geniuses at work. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-01-16 15:29 Words: 2,828; reading time: 12 minutes Friedrich Rückert – Kindertodtenlieder Blogging rhymes of passage through the dark forest of shades. Posted by Richard on UTC 2019-01-13 10:39 Words: 27,368; reading time: 2hours 4 minutes Updated on 2020-07-11
