Saturday, February 26, 2011

"The only outward sign of crisis was the fact that they were drinking sherry"



"The only outward sign of crisis was the fact that they were drinking sherry" - Honor by Tessa Hadley

8 comments:

donnie said...

This is so cool and funny and true - poor duck :)

Anonymous said...

Sherry? I thought ducks only drink "Gänsewein". Looks more like the duck is already gone through the crisis :-( The photo appears to me like a illustration of an old children's book.

Martina said...

donnie, you might have sheep with electrical wires coming out of their backs, but we have drunken ducks, ha!

anonymous, you are the duck expert, you should know. Unfortunately I couldn't take a better photo, I had to stick the lens through fence and vines, watching out for the duck's owner ...

the dear Zé said...

don't tell me you really kill a duck?!! that's amazing what we can do to have a nice picture...

kiss

Markus Spring said...

Fine - reminds me of my kids' book where 'Michel from Lönneberga' feeds his pig with fermented cherries.

Martina said...

dear Zé, I would never do that ... :-)

Markus, funnily anon told me later that day that he was reminded of "Baumgarten's Wichtelbuch".

Michel even did feed them to the cock. I was so impressed. I was 8.


@all: it's a goose :-P

paulboo said...

Too much sherry is not good for the goose!! Unless it's in a nice sauce.....!!

Martina said...

Paul, definitely not sherry. This goose is resting on the banks of the River Main, in sight of Hochheim, a town that - as you surely know - was visited by Queen Victoria in 1845 - hence: „A good Hock keeps off the doc!“ . So it must have been the wine ... goose au vin ...

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