Article photo: Recipe during a meal together with Barbara and Roland
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Chocolate
Nothing against chocolate, especially since this sweet treat is now available to everyone. Until recently, we were still discussing whether we should stay away from cheap products - if we can afford them - and not switch to luxury products, but instead choose sustainably produced and fairly traded products.
For me, the times when [note: regionalism] chocolate was an emergency ration meant to make life on the brink of madness a little more bearable are long gone. My body has also long since stopped digesting the effects of emerging cravings. And so I'm always happy when people bring my better half and me a few little temptations now and then - for nostalgic reasons, the ones from Brussels have a special place in our hearts.
But now the whole thing has reached a point where we should urgently ask ourselves whether we aren't all stupid - it must be because of the water that is contaminated by industry and agriculture. I actually wanted to just sit this issue out. But now that "Dubai chocolate" has become the most important trend product of the winter in Germany, I have to bite the bullet! Far too many of our fellow citizens have now gone so crazy that even Aldi, Lidl and Co. have to react and give the people exactly what they want.
Just so you know: has any of these influencers ever tried to dissolve a bar of Dubai chocolate in mulled wine and then market the concoction as “political swill”? — or even as a Lumumba for particularly important people, if you like.
Blackberry
Thuringia has achieved something that I no longer believed in — Chapeau! Now I am curious about Mario VoigtBut I am even more impressed by Bodo Ramelow impressed me, which changed my opinion about Die Linke considerably. What a difference to strangling Thomas Kemmerich four years earlier.
The CDU politician received 88 votes from a total of 51 MPs, and this in the first attempt — seven more than the coalition of CDU, BSW and SPD has. What was new was that it was agreed in advance that the opposition (excluding the AfD) would be involved in every legislative proposal at an early stage. And so it was ensured that Mario Voigt also received votes from the left.
Since the Nazis were really fuming after this election, those opposition MPs who voted for the blackberry must have been happy about it.
It remains to be seen whether this coalition will last a legislative period. I assume that the outcome of the federal election will also have an impact on Thuringia.
Start of the week
Probably as a result of one too many events last weekend and perhaps also due to poor health, I was just able to park the meseno bus again on Monday morning, because immediately afterwards I was literally switched off for the following days.
And so there was no coffee together with Detlef Stern at university, let alone a lecture or seminar. It wasn't until Wednesday that I was halfway responsive again and could at least carry on with my routine activities. In the evening I was able to eat solid food again. Much to the chagrin of my better half, I'll be suffering from man flu for quite a while.
I also noticed that a lot of things are going to change for Schaeuffelen Island. Whether this will be for the good of our town or not remains to be seen. When I was young, the former natural monument was our shared playground, sports area and recreational area, and so I witnessed the gradual decline despite, or perhaps because of, some of the "magnificent buildings" in recent decades.
Now they want to expand the educational campus there and build more office buildings on the little green space that is left in our city. So we can only hope that this will benefit education and the well-being of our city and that it will perhaps even look good.
Less good is how the whole thing is handled by the Dieter schwarz Foundation and its very own mayor. Democracy and citizen participation work differently; however, excluding the local council was only logical, because the council really just approves everything that comes from above.
The fact that some local councillors only noticed this after the Heilbronner Stimme had published it and then criticized it is probably simply because an invitation to dinner was not enough. But an invitation to dinner is only really good if it is made without ulterior motives.
What does make me sit up and take notice of the whole thing is that the renovation of Turmstrasse is being postponed once again so that it could possibly be integrated into the connection between the educational campus and the city center. If the overall concept really does turn out to be a big hit for Heilbronn, I would grumble about such a further delay.
I remain firmly convinced that it is we, the citizens and, in the case of competent local councils, they too, who are responsible for urban development. Simply handing this responsibility over to people with big pockets and opaque intentions is simply wrong.
And as collateral damage, a few local councillors are now fighting over the ideal location for the public swimming pool, ice skating rink and roller skating hall - we citizens will then have to live with the results, no matter what they may look like.
My readers will now have to accept that recent events have led me to publish my reviews at the end of each week. And so this is calendar week 50.
Finally
Remember, as soon as something is good, others will copy it. A little allusion that is almost as good as the one about the “long earth”.
In any case, I don't want to withhold a small discovery from my readers. I know the singer personally, but unfortunately her stage name is so poorly chosen that you have to go on a bigger journey of discovery to find her music.
But maybe she will manage to Jan Böhmermann, the dance orchestra there would certainly be a good assistance.
If I had to describe the above music, “experimental” would probably be my first word.
"I will not judge them by their services, but by their character: each person gives himself his character, but chance determines his services."
Seneca, Book 5, Letter 47 (2023: 297)
