August 2017
Tuesday, 1st August 2017
About fifteen years ago I remember using the word tuppence at a newsagent's stall in the UK. The man behind me in the queue laughed and said he hadn’t heard anyone use the word tuppence for a long time.
What does the word tuppence mean? Why don't people use it much nowadays? And what suddenly made me think of the word tuppence today?
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What does the word tuppence mean? Why don't people use it much nowadays? And what suddenly made me think of the word tuppence today?
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Saturday, 5th August 2017
Today my wife and I travelled by train to Thusis and from there walked up the Posterior Rhine (yes, that is really what Wikipedia calls the Hinterrhein in English) to the Viamala gorge.
Photographs don’t really do justice to this amazing landscape: you have to go there and see it for yourself. But I thought I would share with you one picture of the Weisse Findling. It’s a so-called errant boulder, a large white stone carried from who-knows-where by a glacier during some long-past ice-age and dropped in the bed of the river Rhine. This is what it looks like:
Photographs don’t really do justice to this amazing landscape: you have to go there and see it for yourself. But I thought I would share with you one picture of the Weisse Findling. It’s a so-called errant boulder, a large white stone carried from who-knows-where by a glacier during some long-past ice-age and dropped in the bed of the river Rhine. This is what it looks like:
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Tödistrasse 9, 8634 Hombrechtikon
(New address from 24th March 2018)
(New address from 24th March 2018)
If you are travelling from Rüti / Wolfhausen, drive past the Hombrechtikon place-name sign for about 300 metres and turn right into Tödistrasse, just before the Tobel bus stop.
Approaching from Hombrechtikon
If you are approaching from the centre of Hombrechtikon, follow the signs to Rüti. At the Tobel junction (the Methodist Church is on the left) turn left. Tödistrasse is the next turning on the left, just past the Tobel bus stop.
The entrance to our new flat is about 100 metres from the junction with Rütistrasse, on the left-hand side of the road.
The house number is number 9 and we are on the first floor.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
Arriving by bus
If you arrive by bus from Bubikon, get off the bus at Tobel and follow Tödiweg until you get to Tödistrasse. Our house is on the right.