h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

or, as you say, varnishing day?

Anyway, I went to one last night. I had never heard of the artist before, but what I had read on the invitation sounded interesting.
The speaker who had been invited is somebody I've encountered at various events - the owner of our local book store is very active and organises interesting events throughout the year. So far, he (the speaker) has always been a guarantee for good entertainment, and I wasn't disappointed last night.
The entrance was free, and we were even offered snacks, apple wine, apple juice and .

During the speech (introduction of Albert (Ali) Schindehütte) by Prof H. Boehncke, I took a few photos; most of them turned out to be too blurry to be of any use, but you can find a few here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/TheBelana/Vernissage#

Now to the artist: There were lots of his paintings (they'll be in the book store for a further two weeks), and some books he illustrated were for sale, too.

I loved the paintings. They are in a style I've grown up with, I had two fairy tales books with illustrations in a very similar style.

I bought a few postcards, a catalogue which contains quite a few of the paintings, and a book with fairy tales the grand-grand-grand.... father of the artist had written down for the Brothers Grimm in exchange for some of their well-worn 'Beinkleider' - that's trousers - so each time constable Krause (the artist's ancestor) needed trousers, he wrote a letter to the Brothers Grimm and they made a deal.

The artist signed the books, and he didn't merely write his signature, but rewarded us with some real artwork. It took ages, but it was definitely worth the wait. While I waited for my books to dry (he used a quill and ink) I made the acquaintance of a man who is from Schleswig_Holstein, like me, who used to live in Kiel (like me) and even in Husum (where I went to school). Funny old world, it just showed how small it is.

The glass of had nearly knocked me out, and not even the walk home in the fresh and cold air sobered me up again, so I went straight to bed.

Congratulations, you have a unique drawing signed over to you!

What a grand evening you must have had *hic*

Cheers!

It was a wonderful evening. I wish I could say I enjoyed every minute of it, but that wouldn't be quite true. It's because I'm so clumsy: while waiting in the queue to get my books signed, I was talking with my friend (she works in the book store) and didn't pay attention, so I accidentally poured apple wine on the limited edition of books on the table I stood at. (If you know the sketch where somebody who is holding a drink is asked for the time, looks at his wrist watch and spills the drink - that's exactly what happened).

It was quickly dried and didn't make any stains (I only discovered the later, thank goodness).

Aww.. you left an almost indelible mark of your presence

Not funny. I'm not even sure I'm insured against such potential disasters.

Well at least it was Apple Wine. One of the good things I did today was to fix a phone that someone had dropped in the toilet.

Cheers, Gnomon, that made me laugh. But then that's easy, cause it wasn't me who had to fix that phone.

Bel, 'they' would have been insured for such problems


Oooh! VV did that a few weeks ago.. I asked why anyone would want to take a phone in the loo with them.. She said, it was so she would know when her friend replied to her...

Then there was much muttering and cursing as she had to find her old phone to transfer her sim card into

TMI

She never learned such language from me

No, I'm sure you didn't have to teach it to her. She probably sucked it in with the mother's milk (can you say that in English?).

Good Lord!

She was bottle fed, because we were running a pub at the time

- it was the environment.

But just how we got from a vernissage to bad language within ten posts is a complete mystery.

It must come from her father's side of the family

Which reminds me: the artist, he plays with words, making sorts of puns. I don't recall what it was now, and it wouldn't tell most of you anything anyway, but it was quite clever.

*giggles*

Oh, we all giggled. If only I could recall at least one of the examples.

*plies more *

It might help you remember