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Storks 2

Storks 2

– ‘I hope you don’t mind me saying so, but Julia is a strange name for a male stork.’ – ‘What! Don’t be ridiculous. That’s not my name! That’s the name of the baby I supposedly brought to this family. Don’t you know anything? My name is Sepp. And what sort of a bird are you anyway? I thought that all the wooden birds around here were storks.’ – ‘God, sorry Sepp! I’m Seamus and I’m a seagull. From Ireland….

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Early celebrations

Early celebrations

Life is a walk in the park at the moment. The weather is still wonderful – sunny and quite mild – so it is hard to believe that this pond will soon be frozen over and used as a skating rink and for Eistockschießen. Translated as ‘ice stock sport’, this is somewhat similar to curling and is played mainly in Austria, Germany and Südtirol in Italy. I don’t really get it, but the locals go mad for it. They love…

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