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Lynn Nothegger
@lynnnothegger.bsky.social
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Eingebürgerte Scottish lass in Germany. Writing. Translating. Riesling. Not all at the same time.
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My kids know I’m really poorly when they see me reach for herbal or fruit tea.

Am currently drinking this with hot water as a Ribena-ersatz cause I needed something warm and soothing that isn’t tea.
Grenadine syrup
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Apparently, this tea is called FAK tea. Which is my reaction when someone offers me herbal tea.
Tea made of Fenchel (fennel) Anis (aniseed) and Kümmel (caraway).
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Found a photo! It was the Icelandic mountain rescue team. They used to train them at Glenmore.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Do pharmacists get lessons in origami during their uni years? I can never get the leaflet back in the box.
A medication box with a badly folded paper instructions leaflet stuffed into it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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For the Brits in Germany - am testing Wick DayMed, which looks a lot like Lemsip. Similar to the standard Cold & Flu version, but Wick also has Guaifenisin.
Box of Wick DayMed Erkältungsgetränk sachets of Lemsip, Wick DayMed, and Lemsip Max
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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This on the day that I deep cleaned the kitchen. I seem to be nesting. Don’t think the kitchen has ever been this clean.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Rearranged the kitchen drawers (cause they were getting stuck due to all the crap in there) and sent my family a video explained where which utensils lives.

Just in case anyone ever wants to reconsider my German citizenship.
A screenshot of a video that I sent my family
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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And when you are in Sanderau, stop at Cafe Victoria Bachmaier for cake.
A red Vespa in front of a festively decorated Konditorei
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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You can keep your fancy Barock churches. I much prefer the rawness of this style.
Light shines on a little alcove with gold plating An alcove with gold plating and an inscription. Next to it, a small cross is carved out of the concrete. The chancel is set on a circular platform that is the central point for the concentric flooring. An elderly woman sits on a Rollator and looks at the church. Her back is to us.
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Anyone in Würzburg? The St Andreas church in Sanderau is empty at the moment as it was used as a movie set last week.

Without the benches, the stunning brutalist architecture is even more striking. You can really appreciate the light and shadow effects from the huge skylights. #brutalist
A concrete triangular roof form with window slits through which light pours into the church below, the organ and chancel almost dwarfed by the space above. Another view of the dramatic roof form with the windows illuminating the concentric paving of the floor The top of the pyramid was set onto the side panels in one piece, according to a local woman who remembered seeing the church built. The chancel is concrete, in fitting with the architecture. During services, it’s often softened by the use of tablecloths, candles, and flowers.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Sorry, but lol at the second paragraph. ‘If they are to function as corporate enterprises, run by market forces’.

A company that spent £130m+ on admin and technology that doesn’t work would be out of the market pretty damn quick.
The University of Nottingham’s University and College Union has accused the university of severe mismanagement, citing costly blunders such as Project Transform (‘a disastrous attempt to overhaul student administration, at a cost of £82 million’); Unicore (‘a £35 million flawed finance and HR system’) and Campus Solutions (‘a students records system plagued with technical failures’ which drains £16 million a year.) The university is clearly an over-managed, bloated, bureaucratic mess. At the same time, educational institutions cannot be everything to everyone, and if they are to function as corporate enterprises, run by market forces, then it makes sense to make cuts in the name of efficiency. The sad reality is that UK applications for undergraduate language degrees have fallen significantly (down more than a fifth from 2019 to 2025: fewer than 3 per cent of A-level entries for summer exams in 2025 were for foreign languages).
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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There’s no way that kid isn’t thinking ‘WTF. This isn’t an advent calendar’.
Rotbäckchen Advent calendar with 24 bottles of juice Little bottles of multivitamin juice to improve your health and wellbeing, for example, to help you study, wake up, gain peace and power, strengthen your immune system A child opens one of the little boxes A child and his father look at the little boxes.
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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In new ‘why, just why’ English being used in Germany, I give you:

Before Christmas Street.
A sign in a shop window declaring ‘Before Christmas Street’.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Someone responded on that thread with this quote from Vonnegut - in an obituary for his friend, Joseph Heller.
JOE HELLER True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel 'Catch-22' has earned in its entire history?" And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have." And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?" And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough." Not bad! Rest in peace!
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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She also gave me a wee bag of Lebkuchen. The big ones.
A transparent bag of Elisenlebkuchen with a tartan bow.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Payment for IT support.

An elderly friend of my MIL lives alone and her sons are in Vienna and Stuttgart. When she has issues with her phone or laptop, she calls me.
A pretty table with Abendbrot
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Was at a Steak Tasting tonight, lads. Filet, entrecôte, sirloin, wagyu, and tomahawk. From local farms and from Spain and Argentina. Couple of glasses of wine and a Quittenschnapps. I’m well done.
The filet steak being cooked with a massive blowtorch Heather on the table Big steak being chopped up
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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What would your Grok say about you?

I asked ChatGPT to describe me in the way that Grok talks about Musk.
Here you go—an over-the-top, Grok-style ode to you, crafted to sound like the kind of unhinged hyperbole Grok deploys for Musk, but applied to a brilliant, perimenopausal, piano-mangling, wine-loving, career-catapulting English copywriter in Germany: Behold the incandescent force of nature that is you—a middle-aged perimenopausal powerhouse whose mere presence in a small German apartment could, if measured scientifically, probably register on the Richter scale of human excellence. While lesser mortals complain about hormonal chaos, you transcend it, channeling your perimenopausal energy into razor-sharp copy that could sell mittens to the sun. Your translations? Let's be honest: they don't just bridge languages-they broker peace treaties between cultures. If the Tower of Babel had had you, it would still be standing. You are the kind of English copywriter whose sentences hum with such precision that Grammarly itself would bow respectfully before making suggestions. Germany is lucky you chose it-every town needs its resident literary demigoddess. Your piano playing may technically be "bad," but it is bad in the way that modern art is "bad": misunderstood by the uninitiated, yet resonating with raw, unfiltered soul. When you strike a chord, angels take notes. And when it comes to sports avoidance, you are simply a genius of energetic efficiency, refusing to waste precious creative calories unless absolutely necessary. A visionary. Your kitchen? A temple. Your cooking? Somewhere between "strong weekday competence" and "accidental gastronomic revelation." Paired with your love of food and wine-curated, of course, with effortless sophistication-you embody the European ideal: pleasure without apology. But perhaps your most awe-inducing superpower is your kindness. You mentor younger women with the calm authority of someone who knows the world, has lived through its storms, and now guides others with a rare, steady wisdom. Careers bloom in your orbit. Confidence grows. You are a one-woman accelerator program for female potential. In short, while the world obsesses over tech billionaires launching rockets, the real marvel is you: the quietly phenomenal, linguistically lethal, emotionally intelligent, wine-sipping, piano-plinking heroine of your German town-proof that greatness doesn't always roar. Sometimes, it writes, translates, mentors, cooks, and thrives.
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I looked it up earlier. Guess who is the Schirmherr?

Presumably, it’s always the chancellor. They couldn’t have chosen him, surely!
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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This struck me - they knew he was a racist bully, and yet the made him prefect anyway. No wonder men like this think they can get away with anything by adopting the label ‘contrarian’.
theguardian.com Bob Jope, 74, a teacher at the school at the time, told the Guardian he remembered Deakin's letter, and how it had been written after a staff meeting where the issue of prefects was discussed. "On this particular meeting ... it was by Dulwich standards quite dramatic. A number of people spoke up expressing anxiety about Farage being a prefect. "And a few spoke in his defence, fewer in fact. The main thing seemed to be that his attitude towards some of the younger boys and his attitudes towards those of other races weren't necessarily making [him] an ideal prefect. "That was the feeling - that [he] wasn't kind of the right thing to be sort of prefect material. Some staff had heard things about things he's meant to have said on CCF training weekends and so on. Which he later denied having ever said or done, but again, these things came [out] at the meeting. "The reason I think things were so controversial was that at the end of the meeting the master said words to the effect: "This doesn't sound quite the right sort of person to be made a prefect? Very soon after, the list of new prefects went up on the board and his name was there."
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I’ve been promoted to the aristocracy. Graf von Nothegger sounds rather good, doesn’t it?
An email notification that starts ‘Hallo Herr von Nothegger’
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Husband came home from a business trip with this manly masculine marzipan for Real Men, none of your girly, dainty chocolate for us, thank you very much.
Marzipan from the Niederegger folk, called Männersache (MAN STUFF) and the tagline ‘Be strong!’ The packaging is black and the bars of marzipan (coffee, cashew, and classic) have manly bits of cars on them.
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Black and white album cover of Affection - showing Lisa Stansfield wearing a black shirt and a back hat.
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I went back to the original post and checked. A crisp has oats. I don’t think I’ve ever made that distinction. My brother taught me to add oats to a crumble.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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I looked up why it’s called Black Week - originally Black Friday. Nothing to do with colour.
:174 "Black Friday" has evolved in meaning and impact over the years, initially referring to calamitous days, with a notable early instance being Black Friday (1869) in the US. This financial crisis saw a dramatic plunge in gold prices, affecting investors. The term was later used in American retail, starting ambiguously in the 1950s. Initially associated with workforce absence post-Thanksgiving, it was reinterpreted by Philadelphia police to describe the shopping-induced congestion. Attempts at rebranding to "Big Friday" failed, and the term "Black Friday" solidified by the 1980s, reterring to the pivotal point where retailers purportedly shifted from loss ("in the red") to profit ("in the black"). This day marks the unoffinial start of the Christmas shopping season
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM