28.8.2009 von admin.

… *puh* “heaty” day again and our dear neighbour helped us cut the hedges (THANKS!!!) and it no longer looks like a jungle at the back of the house. Despite the fact that the backyard is not huge, but the stuff -( sorry mum! She doesn’t really appreciate the word “stuff” in combination with her flowers) that grows there, grows like there has been used a lot of fertilizer, which is not the case.

The tennis girls and boys are playing again today and I guess the match must be over soon. I hope they did well.

Going to enjoy a dinner with friends at Ciao Ciao this evening and see them off after their 3 week holiday in Carinthia. They had great weather and seem to have enjoyed it.  Ciao Ciao is the Italian restaurant next door and you can enjoy a great meal, good wine, wonderful service in a fantastic atmosphere there.

Time to enjoy the sun…

So long - ciao

/S

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28.8.2009 von admin.

…. Carinthia is known for its beauty with mountains and lakes. It is the southernmost Austrian state with Slovenia and Italy as neighbouring countries. Carinthia has a population of around 560.000 and Klagenfurt as its capital and and Villach are the largest cities and also strongly economically linked. The name Carinthias has been suggested coming from the Celtic - carant ( friend or relation - land of friends) or karanto (stone , rock) but also Carantania is related to the old Slovenian Korotan, from which the modern name Koroška arose, and it derives from pre-Slavic “carantia”.

Zummer An’ Winter by Ingeborg Bachmann*

When I led by zummer streams
The pride o’ Lea, as naighbours thought her,
While the zun, wi’ evenen beams,
Did cast our sheades athirt the water;
Winds a-blowen,
Streams a-flowen,
Skies a-glowen,
Tokens ov my jay zoo fleeten,
Heightened it, that happy meeten.

Then, when maid an’ man took pleaces,
Gay in winter’s Chris’mas dances,
Showen in their merry feaces
Kindly smiles an’ glisnen glances;
Stars a-winken,
Day a-shrinken,
Sheades a-zinken,
Brought anew the happy meeten,
That did meake the night too fleeten.

So long - from the land of friends

/S

* Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Carinthia and studied philosophy, psychology and German at the Universities of Innsbruck, Linz and Vienna from 1945-50, when she earned a doctorate in philosophy. In 1951, she started working as an editor at an Austrian radio station, where she wrote her first radio play.

In 1952 she managed her lyrical breakthrough with a reading at the “Gruppe 47″. From 1953 she moved between Vienna, Zurich and Rome, where she settled for permanent in 1963.

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