Meeresraunen
The sun is shining, the tide goes high. Ideal weather to talk to our Great Mother. Who this is? It’s the sea, of course!
Swiftly our fairy bags are packed and off we go to the beach.
Die Sonne scheint, die Flut wogt hoch. Ideales Wetter, um mit unserer großen Mutter einen Plausch zu halten. Wer das ist, fragt ihr? Das Meer. Es müsste doch “die Meer” heißen, meinen wir. Das Meer ist doch keine Sache, als die wir es oft behandeln.
Hurtig packen wir unsere Feensäckchen und auf geht’s zum Strand.
With fairy swiftness, we erected our observation tent, got the microphones in place and now “psst!”, shut up and listen. We suppose you know that Bookfayries understand sea-speech which is similar to Queen’s Fairish. First of all we need a spell to avoid turning into the Flying Dutchman’s or Ship’s Kobold’s frequency.
“Queen of the beach/open up for our fairy speech”
A fine rushing is building up. Listen! Mother Sea begins to whisper very quietly. First she praises our clean beach we are very proud of. We walked it for an hour with Dina to photograph rubbish but all in vain, except some white bleached driftwood and one or two deserted shoes we found nothing. All by a sudden the sea starts rumbling. She is absolutely fed up with people’s behaviour. “I am getting so stuffed with more than 100 million tons of plastic every year, not to mention oil, fertilizers, heavy metals and radioactive substances that I have to vomit. Mostly on the beaches and in the sea of the land ruled by this stupid Ignorant in America to open his eyes. Off the Californian coast, in the Gulf of Mexico and especially around Hawaii I disgorged vast areas of plastic to make my point!”
Dina: iPhone 7+ of the sea, ICM, slow shutter app. Edit:Snapseed.
Feenflugs ist unser Beobachtungszelt aufgebaut, das Mikro ausgerichtet und nun “psst!” ganz still sein und lauschen. Ihr wisst doch, dass Buchfeen die Sprache des Meeres verstehen, die dem Hoch-Feeisch ähnlich ist? Vorab muss ein Zauberspruch gemurmelt werden, damit wir nicht versehentlich die Frequenz des Klabautermanns oder gar des Fliegenden Holländers empfangen.
“Königin im blauen Schloss/Tue auf den Wellenschoß”
Ruhiges Rauschen, leise beginnt Mutter Meer plätschernd und glucksend zu raunen. Wogend lobt sie unseren sauberen Strand. Eine Stunde liefen wir mit Dina an ihm entlang, um angespülten Müll zu fotografieren. Nichts, rein gar nichts außer weiß geblichenes Treibholz und selten ein einsamer Schuh. Plötzlich grollt die See mit aufgeregten Wellen. Sie ist wütend, wie Menschen sie behandeln. Mit über 100 Millionen Tonnen Plastik wird sie jährlich zugemüllt. Gar nicht zu reden vom Öl, Düngemittel, Laugen, Schwermetallen und anderem Schweinkram, den sie an den Stränden auskotzen muss. Den meisten Plastikmüll sammelt Mutter Meer an den Stränden dieses hellhaarigen Ignoranten in Amerika, hoffend selbst ihm die Augen zu öffnen, erklärt sie uns. “Vor der Küste Kaliforniens, im Golf von Mexiko und vor Hawaii habe ich bereits riesige Plastikflächen, die keiner übersehen kann, mahnend zusammengetrieben.”
Do you know why the sea loves Bookfayries? Because they like authors like Frank Schätzing who wrote in his eco-crime novel “The Swarm” that the collective intelligence of Mother Nature take vengeance for all the pollution. Sometimes the sea has to flood the land to show who has the power. “I don’t need you, but you need me!” she makes the point tsunami-wise. At one time she covered the whole earth, now she covers about 70%; on her beaches our western civilization has its roots and long before first life was born by her.
Warum Mutter Meer uns Buchfeen mag? Weil wir Autoren wie Schätzing schätzen, der in seinem Ökokrimi “Der Schwarm” die Rache der kollektiven Intelligenz für die Umweltverschmutzung uns verständlich zu machen sucht. Das Meer muss schon ab und an über die Ufer treten, um den Menschen zu zeigen, wer die Macht hat. “Ich brauche euch nicht, aber ihr mich!” betont rauschend Mutter Meer. Immerhin bedeckte sie einst die gesamte Erde und heute 70%; an ihren Stränden entstand die westliche Zivilisation und sie gebar weit davor das erste Leben.
Dina: iPhone 7+, long shutter with slow shutter app. Edit: Snapseed.
She talked about her fancy for authors. Very proud is she being a muse who inspired “The Odyssey“, Jules Verne and Traven, as well as Melville’s “Moby Dick” just to mention the most popular. We are proud of our many beloved shelves filled with nautical literature. We were happy that humans and the sea seem to get along. That wasn’t the case during the Middle Ages and before when the sea was the enemy, a place to be feared. This didn’t change until the Romantics polished her image so successfully that the beach is the most liked place for holidaying until today. “If humans go on polluting me, I will become that poisonous that every drop of water will make them sick. In the Gulf of Mexico, I have already started building up a deadly zone. The time will come when fishes are only known as fabulous beast in fairytales read to children whose parents escaped to another planet. You will find seabirds in old biology books only if you will not stop more than a million of them dying every year of pollution. Mermaids and Selkies are already died out and nobody saw Poseidon lately.“
Sie erzählt uns von ihrem Hang zu den Dichtern. Stolz ist sie, eine Muse zu sein, die zur “Odyssee“, zu “2000 Meilen unter dem Meer“, Travens Totenschiff und “Moby Dick” inspiriere, um nur die berühmtesten Werke zu nennen. Wir haben eine ganze Zimmerwand voller nautischer Bücher, über die wir jetzt in Schwärmen geraten könnten, aber die Schwarmintelligenz von Mutter Natur richtet sich zornig gegen uns. Dabei schienen sich Mensch und Meer ausgesöhnt zu haben. Im Mittelalter und davor fürchtete der Mensch respektvoll die See. Erst die Romantiker polierten ihr Image auf. So gründlich taten sie das, dass der Meeresstrand zum beliebtesten Urlaubsort bis heute wurde. Aber wenn’s so weitergeht, erzählte uns Mutter Meer, wird sie derart giftig werden, dass jede Berührung ihres Wassers unbedingt zu vermeiden ist. Im Golf von Mexiko und der Ostsee gibt es schon echte Todeszonen. Bald wird die Zeit kommen, in der die Fische zu Fabeltieren in den Märchenbüchern werden, die auf andere Planeten geflohene Menschen ihren Kindern vorlesen. Seevögel wird’s nur noch in Geschichtsbüchern geben, wenn weiterhin jährlich weit über eine Million von ihnen an Umweltgiften sterben. Seejungfrauen und Selkies sind längst schon zu Fabelwesen geworden und Poseidon wurde auch lange nicht mehr gesichtet.
Dina: iPhone 7+ of the sea, ICM, slow shutter app. Edit:Snapseed.
Mother Sea has frightened us. We promised her with all fairy honour not to be litter bugs and to avoid plastic. But avoiding plastic is not that easy. With very bad feelings we dispose our garbage in plastic bags into our bins. And have you got an idea how to avoid all this packaging? Well, we throw it away knowing that there isn’t such a thing as “away”. It must go somewhere and unfortunately the big bin seems to be the sea.
Wir müssen zugeben, Mutter Meer hat uns Angst eingejagt. Aber wir haben ihr bei bei all unserer Feenehre versprochen, keine Litter Bugs zu sein, Plastik zu vermeiden, was aber erschreckend schwierig ist. Schlechten Gewissens entsorgen wir unseren Müll in Plastiktüten in die Tonne und wie all den Verpackungen entgehen? Wir leben doch in einer Wegwerfgesellschaft, aber das Wort trügt, es ist ja nicht weg und endet oft im großen Mülleimer Meer.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom leidenden Meer
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma 👭 the clever Bookfayries next the Sea
© Text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers and Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2017
Nice post. And I especially like your comment that there is no such thing as “away.” You are so right!
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Thank you very much 🙂 🙂 Great that you like our post.
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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You are opening my eyes to the beauty of Norfolk beaches! Although I was raised on the Solent coast of England, I never visited East Anglia. My great-grandfather was from that area, and I feel I missed some part of my family’s history by not traveling more within the UK. But we now have our own “family history” from 40+ years in the USA, with memories of the wide sandy Atlantic beaches of New England and the rocky coasts of Maine. We also treasure our brief years in Nor Jylland, en route from UK to US. It is good to live always near the sea..!
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Dear Peter
it’s really great living near the sea. Once you have lived next the sea you are spoiled, you cannot live inland anymore.
The North Norfolk coast is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and a conservation area. Our beach is very much looked after and there are regular beach combs. But even without this there isn’t much rubbish that gets washed up the beach.
We lived in New England as well, in Vermont and Maine, which we think are the nicest counties of the US.
Thank you and have a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Dear bookfayries,
thank you very much, keep on watching the sea and its threats and reporting to the continentals of us. May you also enjoy the water, waves and beaches as I do within the urban realm.
Yours, Bernd
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Dear Arnold,
thanks a lot 🙂 🙂
We wish you a happy weekend and enjoy the waters and waves in your surrounding
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hallo, dear Arnold
yes, we feel a bit like the custodians of or lovely sea we like so much.
Maybe we wrote what everyone knew but it’s a pity that so many humans don’t act following their knowledge.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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A fair warning to those who keep using the sea as a bin. I too am fed up with plastics. The beach on which I live becomes littered with old plastic after a storm. Thank you for speaking out for Mother Sea.
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Dear John
thank you very much! We are happy that you see it like we do 🙂 🙂
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Dear John
we hope to get more and more people listening to the sea. But not only understand her but acting accordingly.
Wishing you a relaxing weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ach da ist wieder so viel zu schreiben. Doch möchte ich mich bremsen und dem guten Rat flogen, den mein Lehrer mir in Deutschland einmal gegeben hat. In der Kürze liegt die Würze. Also Meeresraunen ist eines der vielen deutschen Wörter ,wofür es einfach keine treffende Übersetzung gibt. Ja, das klagende Meer, das so deutlich zu euch gesprochen hat, war ein gutes Metaphor für unsere heutige Lage in der ganzen Welt. Gut, dass das Meer mit euch am Strand zufrieden war! Ganz liebe Grüße an euch Vier vom verschneiten Fauquier, BC!
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Lieber Peter
wir haben den Vorteil, dass wir in einem See- und Landschaftsschutzgebiet leben und deswegen sehr auf Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit geachtet wird. Außerdem gehen keine stark frequentierten Schifffahrtsrouten entlang unserer Küste.
“Meeresraunen” – darauf kam unser Masterchen. Wir finden, es klingt ein wenig nach Richard Wagner.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Vielen Dank, ihr lieben Bookfazries! Es ist eine Freude zu sehen, wie ihr euch so liebevoll über unseren armen Planeten Erde Gedanken macht.
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DANKE!
xxxxxxx
Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma, die das gerne machen
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Lieber Peter
wie wir dich um den Schnee beneiden. Hier ist es immer noch warm und sonnig, aber nach diesem schönen Sommer hoffen wir nun auf einen echten Winter, eine Seltenheit hier.
Wir lieben die deutsche Sprache und wir sprechen zu Hause deutsch. Die Sprache anmutig zu gestalten mit Worten voller geheimnisvoller Konnotationen, mit gefälligem Rhythmus und feinen Spannungsbögen gelingt uns nur im Deutschen. Wir lesen gerade von Klaus Modick “Konzert ohne Dichter”, ein Roman der sprachlich (auch inhaltlich) wunderschön ist. An solch feiner Sprache können wir uns sehr erfreuen.
Mt lieben Grüßen vom kleinen Dorf am großen Meer und den besten Wünschen fürs Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
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Es ist gut zu wissen, dass ihr zusammen in eurer Familie die deutsche Sprache pflegt. Sie geht i vielen Fällen durch Vernachlässigung in einem anderen Land verloren. Vielen Dank für den Lesetip, lieber Klausbernd!
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Lieber Peter
das liegt unter anderem daran, dass unser Masterchen seine Bücher, Artikel und Aufsätze in Deutsch schreibt.
Wir waren uns bewusst, dass man als Expat leicht seine Muttersprache verlieren kann, die neue Sprache aber noch nicht vollständig beherrscht. Man wird sprachbehindert. Dem versuchen wir entgegen zu arbeiten.
Ganz liebe Grüße
Klausbernd
und The Fab Four of Cley
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Ja, dieser Gefahr der sprachlichen Verhunzung waren meine Frau und ich auch ausgesetzt. Du hast ganz recht, man muss dieser Gefahr bewusst und gezielt entgegen wirken.
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Es gibt kein anderes Tier das sich selbst die Lebensgrundlage entzieht!
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Liebe Tanja
Eine interessante Behauptung, die uns nachdenken ließ. Ist das wirklich so? Wir sind uns da nicht sicher.
Vielen Dank für deinen Kommentar und hab eine feines Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
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Nicht sicher, ob wir Menschen uns wirklich die Lebensgrundlage entziehen, oder ob wir die einzige Art sind, die das tut?
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Siri and Selma are busy to find out.
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You all always write such wonderful posts, it’s like a gift to read them. This time I read the German version, which I usually don’t do, but I have enjoyed the many beautiful words in my birth language which is German. Thank you for sharing your stories with the Universe.
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Dear Cornelia
you are very welcome!
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Ah that’s what it is, the fairy dust, what I love.
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Dear Cornelia,
we love the German language. At home we are speaking German. We can express ourselves more beautifully in German, to play with the connotations of words, their rhythm and sounds. We usually translate the German text into English.
Thanks for your kind words.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I can tell that you love German language. I read German books, so I won’t forget my l language.
Have a great weekend too.
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Dear Cornelia
there is one contemporary German author we can highly recommend for his artistic use of German – nevertheless easy to read. Klaus Modick “Konzert ohne Dichter”. It’s about Vogeler and Rilke in this artist’s colony at Worpswede. We think you would love it.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Dear Klausbernd, thank you so much for your book recommendation, I will look out for it. That is very kind of you. All the best to all you Best.
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Is that ‘away’ like the politicians when they begin a sentence with ‘we’? 😀
And yes, it is time to ‘clean up’ our act, in heart and mind, to re-create what our ‘Mother Earth’ should be, instead of an infestation of greed and laziness.
Great post Fab Four, and I hope the beginning of a restoration on a grand scale ❤
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Dear Mark
we hope so too and therefore we wrote this post of our talk with Mother Sea.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Dear Mark
you are absolutely right, we have to clean up our hearts and minds otherwise we will not be able to act ecologically sound and sustainable.
Thank you for liking our post.
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Away…Away… if only mankind’s pollution would go Away, so the ocean would
not feel nauseated 24/7. Wonderful post!
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Dear Sandy
thanks a lot 🙂 🙂
All the best for the weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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You are most welcome. And a wonderful weekend to you, also.
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It’s quite scary when we think of the damage we’ve already done to the seas. Good job on contributing to the awareness campaign!
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Dear Anneli
We feel it’s the job of us fairies to contribute to this awareness campaign. Maybe fairies see clearer than humans want to.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Good work! The oceans of the world are our life.
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THANK YOU!!!
You are absolutely right.
Love
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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Dear Anneli
THANK YOU!
We hope it works.
With lots of love and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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a great blog , I to love those fairy tails
but the politics and big companies do not 😦
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THANK YOU
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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THANK YOU 🙂 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Well said!
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THANK YOU
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Mesmerizing images you are giving here….with your pictures and words.❤️
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Thank you very much. We tried our best.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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An important issue that we constantly need to be made aware of 🙂
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YES indeed
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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We think that more or less everybody knows about the problem of pollution. But acting accordingly is what matters. We try to make our readers understand this. We all suppress our insights concerning pollution very easily.
Thanks and wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Your post is a treat….
Thank you!
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Thank you!
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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You are very welcome!
Thank you.
A happy weekend wishing you
The Fab Four of Cley
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The Book Fayries set a great example; we all need to try and understand sea-speech.
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INDEED!
Thank you very much.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Dear Gallivanta
it’s a pity that we don’t learn sea-speech at school!
Thanks and lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautifully written with a powerful message. Who won the 500 likes contest?
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oh dear, oh dear, Dina and our Master did win it. Well, we missed our aim with more than 50 likes. Nevertheless Dina and our Master bought us a great ice creams today.
Actually if we would wait long enough we would get 500 like, we are sure. Anyway, too much ice cram is maybe not that good for us.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Hurray! We won 🙂 🙂 and we will have a grand dinner next week. Nevertheless Siri and Selma get ice cream as well.
Thank you very much for liking our post, a necessary post we think.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I agree with you and there is still time to save the world, I hope but not too far!!! This is great post, Thank you, have a nice day and weekend, Love, nia
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THANK YOU, dear Nia
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Welcome and Thanks again, you are great. Love, nia
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Dear Nia
we don’t think neither that it is too late if more people would read the signs of Mother Nature.
We hope for the best.
Thanks and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Gerade das mit dem Plastik im Meer verursacht ein gewaltiges Magengrummen.
Sind es z. Zeit 240 Millionen Tonnen?
Ich verweise gerne auf die Website ” Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers”, in der der Fotograf “sehr nett” veranschaulicht, was Zahlen wie z.b. 426000 Mobiltelephon-Wegwerfen am Tag bedeutet. Er macht das auch sichtbar für plastic bottles and cups.
In der Nähe der sogeannnten Plastikozeane ist der Meeresboden heillos verseucht.
Naja, so steht es nun mal – um uns.
Schönen Gruß!
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Herzlichen Dank für den Hinweis auf die anschauliche Website von Chris Jordan.
Ja, auch wir hatten großes Magengrummen, als wir die ersten Bilder dieser Plastikozeane sahen. Das war ja kaum zu glauben, erschütternd.
Mit herzlichen Grüßen vom Meer und besten Wünschen für ein angenehmes Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
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When I was a child less than sixty years ago, there wasn’t any plastic…humans can do such harm in a short time with things that they call “progress” !
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That would be a great topic for a blog post “what is progress” and “what is the price of progress”.
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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You are right, we remember a nearly plastic free time when we were young (at the same time). Nowadays plastic is quite often forced on you.
Thank you very much and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Well penned….there is most certainly no such thing as ‘away’, but the 21st century human seems oblivious to this…..
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Good afternoon, dear Sue,
thanks for liking our post 🙂 🙂
We suppose most of the people know about the problem with pollution but if it comes to act accordingly they suppress their knowledge.
We wish you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Have a lovely weekend yourselves, Fab Four!
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Was für ein wohltuender Beitrag 😀 .. hatte ich erwähnt, dass ich neben der Naturschönheiten an der tollen Sandwoos-Bay in Schottland leider über Berge von Müll hinwegsehen musste die arme Meermutter. Es waren ganze Tonnen und Netze und kleinstplastik vom Mikroolastik ganz zu schweigen .. unsichtbar. Ich glaub euch wie schwer es ist, den gestern war ich auch 😉 plastfrei einkaufen. In Schweden ist das auch wirklich eine herausforderung. Vielleicht muss ich das in einem Ökomami- Beitrag thematisieren. Ich war gefrustet, aber auch erfolgreich. ZUm Thema Zero-Waste gibt es tolle blogs und ich beschäftige mich schon lange damit .. Shia´s Seite kann ich empfehlen http://wastelandrebel.com/de/blog/
Allen .. die sich dafür engagieren kann ich nur danken. Euch dafür, dass ich wieder von euch lesen durfte. Herzsprünge beim entdecken im Reader :)) .. ach so Mac .. 😘 😂 🐬 🦈 🦀 🐳 🐋 🌎 🌍 🌏 🌊
Liebes ! 💙 💛
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Oh, solch liebe Post von dir, da geht uns ja unser Feenherz auf. Und ganz herzlichen Dank für den Hinweis auf Shias Seite. Da werden wir gleich gucken.
Die herzallerliebsten Feengrüße
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Habe gaaaanz herzlichen Dank für deinen lieben Kommentar! 🙂 🙂
Nach Siris und Selmas Gespräch mit dem Meer gelobten wir sogleich Besserung. Auch wir waren verblüfft, welche Disziplin das verlangt. Wie schnell wird mal eben etwas gekauft, das man gar nicht benötigt, wie schnell benutzen wir auch noch dankbar eine angebotene Plastiktüte. Und was nicht alles in Plastik verpackt ist …
Nun versuchen wir disziplinierte Saubermenschen und Sauberfeen zu werden. Wir geben uns echt Mühe.
Mit lieben Grüßen von der heute sonnigen See, die lacht, weil wir über sie reden und uns Sorgen über ihren Zustand machen
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ein ernstes Thema und gut umgesetzt!
Ja, jede und jeder ist gefragt!
herzliche Grüße
Ulli
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Liebe Ulli
Genau!
Ganz liebe Grüße vom sonnigen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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A heartfelt and important message, lavishly ilustrated by Dina’s lovely abstract photographs. Another triumph for the Fab Four of Cley.
Love from Beetley, Pete and Ollie. X
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THANK YOU
With lots of finest fairy dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, the eco-Bookfayries
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Thanks a lot, dear Pete,
we all four tried had to find a form that may people would read our message.
Do you have such lovely sunshine as well? But quite some wind too.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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It was sunny with a cold wind. But I am still wearing shorts! 🙂
Love from Beetley, Pete and Ollie. X
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Wow, dear Pete, we are impressed. You must have explorer-blood in your veins.
Love from
The Fab Four of Cley
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I am waiting for the first snow, KB! 🙂 X
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By the way, I suspect that is Viking blood in my veins. Blond hair (now gone) and blue eyes, and that feeling of being an ‘Islander’.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Dear Pete
blond hair and blue eyes, quite often tall as well are the signs among others of Viking blood. We Fab Four are rather wimps than Vikings 😉 We wouldn’t have survived Viking life.
All the best, love xxxx
The Fab Four of Cley
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I missed out on being tall! 🙂
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well …
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What a fabulous post. “No such thing as ‘away’ ” should be a mantra repeated by us all and posted on billboards. Maybe even on plastic cartons. On a lighter note, I love the idea of a deserted shoe – as though the owner has just got out and wandered off; poor, lonely, shoe!
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We always wonder how people walk home with one shoe only. And the shoe is soooo lonely without it’s partner. Not being a pair is hell for shoes.
YEAH! We love chanting “No such thing as ‘away'” and hope to see it soon on billboards, as graffiti and hear it chanted in schools.
Thanks and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Oha, na, a, hoi!
Schöööööön!
Salzwasser….bis wir es trinken können…bis wir Land haben und darauf Trees wachsen und wir atmen und Früchte essen….
Und dann schmeißen wir Plastikinseln vor die VulkanInseln?! Seems to be totaly crazy to me…..
Guter reminder – eure Blogpost!
Licht wie es sich im Wasser reflektiert…Licht wie wir es einatmen…dazu können wir noch lesen und denken…könnten…
Ich sende euch eine herzliche Umarmreichung und liebe Grüße und Dankeschön
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Danke, liebe Pia!
wir hoffen, dass unsere Post bewusster, wenigstens etwas bewusster macht.
Wir 4 wünschen dir ein wunderschönes Wochenende
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Die Lage ist dramatisch deshalb habe ich mir die 10 Minuten Fassung von Aloha Ke Akua Nahko Bear angeschaut. Die nächste Pfalzbau Aufführung soll „Die Erde tanzt“ heißen. Wie vertanzen immer dienstags dieses Lied🌈🎶💃🏻😍❤️🙋🏻Mein Laptop hat den Geist aufgegeben. Mit zu viel Wasser die Tasten gewischt deshalb schreibe ich vom iphone🌺🌸💕🌴😎😏😫😕😂🤗
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Liebe Pia
Wasser am falschen Platz ist nicht so gut. Trocknen lassen und auf keinen Fall anstellen. Wenn alles abgetrocknet ist, sollte dein Laptop wieder okay sein. Alle guten Laptops können Wasser ab, sie dürfen nur nicht im feuchten Zustand gestartet werden.
Viel Glück!
Liebe Grüße
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Das Wasser hat den Geist meines Laptops leider komplett aufgenommen. Dazu kam meine Unachtsamkeit…ich werde ein Neues brauchen. Dann ganz anders vorgehen. Mit Systhem! 500 Euro Reparatur sind zu teuer. Selbst die Daten bräuchte ich gefühlt nicht mehr. Bilder und Musik habe ich noch. Ballettmütter sind übrigens schwierig. Sie werden schnell sauer und egoistisch. Viele sind auch süß. Einige regelrecht intelligent. Geduldig und weise. Wasser muss lernen nicht allen Müll zu schlucken?! Wir müssen Wasser achten und rein halten?! Wasser ist Leben🙏👌😀ach was ich noch sagen wollte: scheinbar wirken 28 verschiedene Magnete auf das Meer bis so ein Monat rumgeht grübel🤩🤪
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Oh dear!
Über diese Magneten habe ich noch nie gehört. Da ist ein Magnet, der magnetische Nordpol, der sich in etwa kreisförmig bewegt und der den Kompassausschlag bestimmt. Ich hörte noch nie davon, dass andere magnetische Einflüsse gemessen wurden.
Das Ableben deines Rechners tut uns leid. Aber sei froh, das ist eine gute Gelegenheit, einen Rechner zu kaufen, der auf dem neuesten Stand ist.
Alles Gute, liebe Grüße
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Drucker Trockner und Geschirrspüler auch kaputt. Drucker habe ich 2 gekauft. Der Junge Verkäufer( nachdem ich nicht den kaufen wollte den er empfahl): Naja. Ich bin ja noch ein paar Stunden da. Frecher Kerl!😂👍Trockner lasse ich weg. Gibt es auch umweltschonenden Reiniger für Geschirrspüler? Werde mir ein gutes Laütop ohne Schnickschnack kaufen für meine Zwecke. Aber das wird noch dauern! Setze mich an den See und stelle mir Meer vor🙁😕Danke und lässt es euch gut gehen👍🤗
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Hi, liebe Pia,
wir besitzen keinen Trockner, da diese Geräte viel zu viel Energie verbrauchen und wir sie auch nicht benötigen.
Geschirrspüler schont die Umwelt und klar doch, da gibt es eco-Tabs.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom rauen Meer
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Danke….bin gerade von Tellern zu Tellus und Tellur gekommen, spanend, was ich alles nicht weiß!!! Ob ich den neuen Geschirrspüler bei MediaMarkt oder Saturn kaufe? Wird aufs Gleiche hinauslaufen…
Es gibt Alternativen, schau´n wir mal…
Gleich tanzen wir wieder Tarantella…das ist ja ein lustiger Tanz!!!
Ich sende euch herzliche Grüße und grüßt das Meer, sagt ihm/ihr: Durchhalten!!!
..vor kurzem habe ich eine Wasserforscherin aus Italien kennengelernt, sie untersucht die 7. Welle und die Möglichkeiten der Energiegewinnung durch Meer….sie tanzt Capoeira…
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Liebe Pia
herzliche Grüße von Cley 🙂 🙂
Energiegewinnung durch die Kraft des Meeres, speziell der Wellen wird z.B. in Gezeitenkraftwerken in den Niederlanden und England schon seit Längerem praktiziert.
Mach’s gut
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Liebe fab 4s🙋🏻😍bis es in den Stiefel rutscht?!😂😂😴
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angenehmes Wochenende, liebe Pia
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Jetzt wollte ich mir gemütlich Srimad Bhagavad Gita vorlesen lassen. In YouTube . Aber- unverständliche Sprache mit fürchterlich kleingeschriebenen englischen Untertiteln…🤓🧐☹️Und ziemlich miserable Schauspieler und viel Herumgehüpfe😉😕meine mich erinnern zu können dass da auch schon etwas von verschmutzten Wassern steht.. in Bali haben sie wenigstens den Strand aufgeräumt🙌👏Wir bleiben dran👍
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Liebe Pia
Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, hat schon der Staufer Friedrich II im 13. Jh. Gesetze gegen die Verschmutzung der Flüsse durch Färbereien und Gerbereien erlassen.
Wir sind gerade zu Masterchens Geburtstag in Ferien in Oxford und den Cotswolds.
Liebe ❤️ Grüße von dort
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My own love for the sea stems from the oil paintings of ships my grandfather captained during the late 19th century and up until after WW1, when he retired. There were pictures of windjammers and steam ships. He sailed them to China, America, Egypt, Japan, India, South Africa and many other destinations. We had a shoebox of all the postcards he sent to the family at home. On Vancouver Island he met my Canadian grandmother, I have a small Native American totem she took to England with her in around 1912.
We had five such paintings in our house and my aunt had two or three more. Two hung on my bedroom wall and I spent hours gazing at them.
And then there was my first sea voyage across the North Sea to Norway. My mother, three sisters and I sailed from South Shields to Oslo aboard one of Fred Olsen’s ships, either the SS Braemar, or the SS Blenheim. I was only two years old and my youngest sister was just a babe in arms. I did the trip a few more times in the 1960s and loved it. Now I live by the sea and it still gives me great pleasure, though there is far too much trash discarded on the beach here in Andalucia.
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Dear Bryan
you have quite a connection to the sea. In Dina’s family the beloved grandfather was a whaler but Master comes from a family of landlubbers.
To our experience the sea and beaches are more polluted as further you go south.
Thanks and wishing you a great weekend
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I can report to the faeries that the beaches where I live are clean and beautiful, I wish it was so everywhere. Nice photos, must try that app!
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GREAT to read that you live at clean and beautiful beaches like Siri and Selma as well. We very much hope it will stay like this.
Wishing you a happy weekend
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I was heartbroken walking along one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, Sotovento in Fuerteventura whose golden sands extend for miles, where all along the tide line, there were millions of tiny bits of plastic amongst the shells and small pebbles. How we clean up our oceans I have no idea given the extent of the problem but not adding to the problem just has to be a priority. I love your photographs Hanne and as always Klausbernd, the text is beautifully written. Have a great weekend all of you! 🙂 x
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Dear Chillbrook
yes, it’s a pity what we did to our beaches and the sea.
This cleaning of the sea will be a great job which can only done on an international level. We read somewhere that some companies produce special nets to catch all the plastic bottles. But they didn’t got enough money to start the cleaning.
Anyway, we try to do our very best and hope for the best.
Great that you like Dina’s pics and our dear Master’s text 🙂 🙂
We wish you a GREAT weekend as well and thanks for commenting
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Fab Four of Cley,
I agree that the polluting of the oceans needs to stop, I have battled for that most of my life being as I was born on one island, raised on another and now live near the coast of a peninsula. This is not a recent problem and the US is not the only perpetrator. Although China and India pollute as much if not more than us, no one country can be held to blame – this is every human beings responsibility – regardless of their nationality. Having pride in one’s planet should be instilled in every child – before they become sloppy, lazy adults. IMO
Have a peaceful weekend, my friends,
GP Cox
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Good afternoon, dear GP Cox
well, pollution and global warming – close connected – are the big challenges of the international community. On the World Climate Conference right now hosted by Germany these are the basic topics. Of course the US is not the only perpetrator, but it has a president who ignores climate changes which are caused by this pollution. In the US more water per capita is used than by any other country of the world and electricity as well. If one compares recycling f.e. in Florida with recycling in Europe the US seems to be 20 years backwards.
Actually China spends more money for cleaning it’s country than any other country in the world. But we admit China had to as the pollution was that drastic there.
We agree actually children should learn at school about pollution and sustainability.
Thanks for commenting and wishing you a relaxing weekend
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Thank you for the post, Fab Four of Cley!
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You are very welcome, dear Amy 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a GREAT weekend
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Dear Bookfayries,
it’s great that you support Mother Sea. You should fly to Bonn and speak to the World Conference on her behalf. I try to “go green” as much as I can, but it’s difficult, especially when I do my grocery shopping …
Why do water have to be bottled in plastic? It makes me feel sick when I see what ends up on our beaches. There should be a ban on plastic bags and bottles, I agree wholeheartedly with you!
Kram, Annalen
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Hi, dear Annalena
Greetings from us all to beautiful Stockholm.
We are very proud that our Bookfayries are helping Mother Sea. They love it. It has quite an influence on their behaviour. We hope it will last 😉
Lots of love
KRAM
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Excellent post about Mother Sea. And good to follow the link to see KB in front of his nautical library – I always enjoy a nice ‘shelfie’. I once taught Moby Dick to Sudanese schoolboys but that’s another story. All the very best. Laurence
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Dear Laurence
well, that ‘shelfie’ …
Reading ‘Moby Dick’ with Sudanese must be very special. The next time we meet – we hope soon – you have to tell us this story.
We wish you a GREAT weekend, here it’s sunny but windy.
See you soon
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Liiiiebe Annalena,
yes, we happily support Mother Sea 🙂 🙂
Unfortunately it’s much too windy to fly to Bonn 😦 Dina and our Master wouldn’t allow it.
Going Green is quite a challenge for us as well. Oh dear, we drink a lot of water from plastic bottles and today, we can tell you, Dina got a parcel from amazon – wow, how much plastic for the packaging! Anyway, we try our best. But there are a points where we don’t mind, it’s too uncomfy to be 100% green. We will change our laziness, we promise.
Before plastic water was bottled in glas, we suppose? Basically we fairies think water should be that clear that you can drink it from a tap or even from a river or lake – but that’s Utopia, we know.
KRAM xxxxxxxx
Lots of finest fairy dust to Stockholm
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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oh dear, wrong place. But where is the edit button gone?
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Great post! Thank you so much for being a constant companion to the sea! 😊 We need you and so many others to take care of our beautiful waters!
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Yes, indeed!
Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
We are wishing you a great weekend
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Thank you, dear Fab Four of Cley for a profound and cautionary message to care for our oceans. This is our time, our watch. Every small act of care counts. Mother Sea – what marvelous symbolism. Many hugs and lots of love coming across the oceans to your homes next to the sea. I wish we could beam over. The boys send their best regards.
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Dear Clanmother Rebecca
we will do everything we can to watch Mother Sea and helping her to become clean again.
From the sunny coast of North Norfolk we are sending big HUGs and wishing you all a great weekend.
Lots of love to you and the boys
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Thank you! Your call to action is inspiring. We are with you. We will make a difference. Many hugs and love!
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Dear Rebecca
WE WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
of course!
Happy Sunday, Hugs xxx
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A great post! Will we ever learn .. such a beautiful world, we need to look after it.
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Dear Julie
indeed, we have to look after Mother Sea! We hope we will learn pretty soon before it is too late.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I am so happy to read about how you Bookfayries are helping Mother Sea! I try my best too, but sometimes it does not work the way I want it too. But, if everybody worked like you – the world and Mother Sea would feel much better. Wishing all of you a great weekend!
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Dear Leya,
thanks for liking our post and our looking after Mother Sea. We cannot go 100% ecological but we try our best. If everybody would try just a little bit harder that would help quite a bit.
We wish you a great weekend as well
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Dad loved the sea: I read this at his funeral:
Sea Fever
BY JOHN MASEFIELD
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
We must all work to clean our sea before ‘the long trick’s over’ for us and our ecosystem.
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Dear Simon
thank you so much for this poem by John Masefield 🙂 🙂
If we all would try a little bit harder to avoid plastic and rubbish that would be a great help for Mother Sea.
Thanks and have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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I love listening to the sea,feeling the sand on my feed an feel the wind between my hair .Fijne post
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Thank you VERY much. It’s just great being at a beach and experience all the feelings you describe.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Very true. I find more and more garbage on the beaches… Plastic mainly. A shame.
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Thanks a lot for commenting.
All this plastic dumped into the sea that’s a shame and this has to end. We have to rise the consciousness – our own and this of others.
Wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Viel dank. Likewise.
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Bitteschön 🙂 🙂
Es war uns ein Vergnügen.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Vergnügen… vergnügen… Ah. Yes. Pleasure… 😉
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A very thought-provoking post and nice work with the iPhone camera. “Away” is a relative term as you so eloquently showed us.
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Dear Allan
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Dina just has a phase taking photographs and experimenting with her iPhone.
Wishing you a happy weekend
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Great message, my friends. Thank you. There is a little town on the Oregon coast where they gather trash that comes in on the tide and then turn it into fantastic art pieces to remind people of the damage we are doing to our oceans. –Curt
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Good morning, our dear friend Curt
we think that’s a great idea to show people the damage they are doing. To raise the consciousness we need ways that are speak to the people and shock them. We think that art is a good way. People have to see what is done to our oceans otherwise they suppress the problem of pollution.
Thanks and wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Sometimes the capacity of people to ignore the environmental problems we are creating seems almost infinite. Sigh.
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We are shocked about it as well.
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Very interesting effects with snapseed. As for the message -it’s such a very good one that we need to spread throughout the planet. We have been getting quite a bit of stuff drifting over from Japan’s Tsunami. As you said, there is no such thing as “away”!
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Dear Gunta
tanks a lot for commenting 🙂 🙂
You are right, we have to spread that message. SAFE MOTHER SEA – everybody has to understand how important that is for our surviving.
Wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wishing you a great week! Yes, we all need to keep spreading the message!
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YES!!!
A happy week for you as well
The Fab Four of Cley
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Poignant tribute to nature!
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Thank you, der Sally 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
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Beautiful post… and such a good tribute to the Sea. Interesting to learn how it could have been seen by writers and poets. Following this itinerary, I am thinking of Carles BAudelaire´s poem “The Man and the Sea”, which I have always loved .(Free man, you’ll love the ocean endlessly!/ It is your mirror, you observe your soul/In how its billows endlessly unroll/Your spirit’s bitter depths are there to see”). Sending love & best wishes 🙂
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Thank you very much for your kind words.
In the beginning that was our idea as well. We love the stories of Sindbad the Sailor, Moby Dick, this extraordinary novel with lot of non-fiction paragraphs, all these books about Cook, Shackleton and of course “The Odyssey”, sagas about the Icelandic and Irish who sailed far North and West. We are very proud having Peter Feuchen’s “Book of the Seven Seas” in our library next to books about sailings around the world single handed.
That’s too big a topic and too special for such a blog post that visitors want to read quick.
We wish you a great weekend! 🙂 🙂 and send best wishes to another lover of the sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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P.S.
I just saw that your blog is very special and really well done about the Greek mythology, kind of Jungian. The sea mythologically seen would be a topic perfect for your blog as well as the sea in literature and painting. I would love to read it 🙂
All the best
Klausbernd 🙂
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Your photos of the sea are calming and invigorating at the same time. I’m amazed that you were able to take the sea frame with iPhone. I would say that you have a magical iPhone, but I know by now that you 4 have too much talent to give all the credit to technology!
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Thanks, dear Gabe. That’s a kind commentary 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Dina is amazed as well how well her iPhone takes photographs with the right software. Great that you like her pictures.
Wishing you an easy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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We need new stories to bind us. What better mother for all of us to worship than the sea? Beautiful! Thanks.
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Thank you very much! 🙂 🙂
All the best
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Thanks for your linking to our post 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a wonderful week
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wonderfully clean
tale 🙂
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Thanks a lot!
With clean greetings
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely post, a great way to help raise awareness!
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Thank you very much for your kind words 🙂 🙂
With warm greetings from the cold sea
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A delightfully unique presentation of a major environmental problem.
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Dear Louis
we are happy that you like our presentation 🙂 🙂 Thank you very much.
With warm greetings from the little village next the big Mother Sea
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hello dina its dennis the vizsla dog hay yes it shoor wood be nice if peepul wood spend mor time thinking abowt ware all there stuf goze wen they ar dun with it!!! i hope it happins befor the entire wurld is ful of junk but i hav got my dowts abowt it!!! ok bye
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Hi Vizsla
we try our very best that we don’t end up with a totally littered sea and earth. We don’t like a junk planet. We have still hopes for a change.
Bye
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hi
do you like our post?
All the best
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🙂 🙂
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Gaya wird sich rächen und ganz klar überleben! Vielen Dank für diese nachdenklich machenden Worte. Liebe Grüsse an euch Vier. Cari saluti Martina
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Guten Morgen, liebe Martina
naja, sie rächt sich ja schon mit Unwettern.
Mit ganz lieben Grüßen vom Meer und herzlichen Dank
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What gorgeous photos, and an important message. It’s very hard to avoid plastic, and it’s too easy to ignore the sea, unfortunately. The “Stop the Pollution” photo is beautiful – and how cool that you did it with an iphone! I would love to see these compositions, with the messages, in grocery stores – that might cause people to pause and maybe at least bring their own bags the next time. Have a great week!
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Thank you very much for kind words. What a good idea having posters in every shop making people aware of all the unnecessary plastic they use and they are forced to use by the producers.
Wishing you a great week as well
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you VERY much for linking our post 🙂 🙂
Have a happy week
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Legislating an end to pollution doesn’t work. That’s for sure. This way, person-by-person, is how we can do it. I accept the personal responsibility to never throw trash in the ocean (well, it’s easy to take that pledge–I’d never do it anyway).
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Dear Jacqui
we don’t know. Legislating an end of pollution in the field of traffic seem to work. Cars are getting cleaner, because they have to, and e-traffic is sponsored quite a bit. In big cities of the continent public transport is well developed and runs mostly electrical. And then of course all these recycling programmes which are organized by law. We suppose that helped a lot – but not enough. In Germany the Green Party fights for more anti-pollution laws and it is in the government for quite a while now.
But, of course, not to pollute has to start on an individual level. People must learn what they are causing with their consumerism.
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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What a wonderful post! Yes, we all have a responsibility to make sure that our rubbish does not make it’s way into the sea.
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Dear Clare
yes, we have to make sure that pollution will be reduced quite a bit. And we all can contribute.
With lots of love from the rough sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Excellent! 🙂
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Thanks, dear Bette 🙂 🙂
Have a happy week
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Ihr habt die Thematik ‘weltweite Umweltsituation’ wieder sprachlich und inhaltlich auf den Punkt gebracht. Vielen Dank auch für die eindrucksvollen Bilder.
Ein fantastisches Früchte-, Beeren- und Gemüsejahr ging hier zu Ende und noch kann ich bis ca. Mitte Dezember Zuckerhut, Cicorino Castelfranco, Cicorino Rosso Salate ernten, denen Frost und Kälte nichts anhaben kann.
Grüsse euch herzlich aus der Schweiz. Ernst
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Guten Morgen, lieber Ernst,
ja, wir hatten ebenso ein tolles Früchte- und Beerenjahr. Jetzt gerade versinken wir in Äpfeln. Auch die Kräuter blühten und gedeihen vom Feinsten.
Was wir interessant finden, sind die unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkte, die in verschiedenen Nationen auf Pollution-Vermeidung gelegt werden. In Norwegen ist es der Verkehr, erstaunlich wie viele e-Autos dort fahren und welche Privilegien sie haben, in Deutschland ist es Recycling und hier in England ist es die Verringerung des Energieverbrauchs, die schon in der Schule als wichtiges Ziel vermittelt wird.
Mit lieben Grüßen in die Schweiz
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Hier in der Schweiz müssen alle älteren Heizungen, die die hohen Einhaltwerte nicht erfüllen, total saniert werden. So musste ich meine 30jährige Heizung vor zwei Jahren für Fr. 15’000.– sanieren. Ebenfalls dürfen Cheminees und Schwedenöfen ohne zusätzliche teure Massnahmen nicht mehr benützt werden. Merke, die älteren Heizungen haben keine Lobby!!! Im generellen Recycling sind wir wahrscheinlich noch viel weiter als Deutschland. Salut
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Lieber Ernst,
oh dear, das würde mich ja ruinieren 😦
Hier in England ist das Umweltbewusstsein verglichen mit anderen mitteleuropäischen Ländern gering. Naja, lieber Ernst, die Schweiz ist doch oft der Musterschüler Europas. Deswegen ist sie mir auch sehr sympathisch. Als ich in St. Gallen und Flawil wohnte, ist mir gleich aufgefallen, wie viel umweltbewusster die Bewohner dort waren als in England.
Wir wären schon traurig, wenn wir nicht mehr abends, wie zur Zeit, ein feines Feuer im Kamin anzünden dürften, es sei denn, wir müssen erst einmal viel Geld dafür ausgeben.
Liebe Grüße vom herbstlichen Norfolk
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Poor Earth, poor nature and the poor sea!
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Dear Lay Fi
therefore nature, earth and sea need a lobby. Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma love to be lobbying for the sea.
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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She has so much wisdom…and we humans so little. And we are slow to learn. Thanks for tis timely ‘sea speak’, Dina et al
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Dear Tiny
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma want to make that learning quicker. We suppose we actually know but don’t act accordingly. We as consumers are not aware of our power.
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hi my 4 friends!! 👨👩👧👦!!
Have just read your blog and sense the awesomeness it gives to most of us!
I can still feel the thrill as a young Irish cailin ( girl) watching the fishermen leaving the quay in their curraghs ( fishing boats). There was no feeling of fear of the sea. It was a strong feeling of respect.
Thanks for bringing back the good old memories!!!
Talk to you soon!! 🙋☘️🇮🇪🙏
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Dear Joan
we are very happy that our beloved Bookfairies talk brought back good old memories. We can see this here as well, this strong feeling of respect for the sea of the last surviving Norfolk fishermen.
With lots of love and a big HUG from
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So sadly true, modern convenience is killing our most important asset. I saw an interesting bumper sticker the other day. It said something like “We got only one distribution of our best asset – it was 40 million years ago. Water” . Never thought of it that way but of course it’s true. A very timely and appropriate post Fab Four
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Dear Tina
thank you very much 🙂 🙂
This bumper sticker is really great. It makes one think immediately and understand.
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma had the feeling they had to publish a post helping Mother Sea NOW.
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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We need to be reminded about this all the time. Without the ocean we don’t have a planet.
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We absolutely agree with you 👭
Thanks a lot 🙏🙏🙏
The Fab Four Of Cley
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The wide and deep sea is our very original homeland, but the excessively boundless human species has simply forgotten this only caring about itselfs. Will the fairies stop all this?
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Of course, they will. Well, at least they try hard.
Thanks a lot 🙏🙏🙏
The Fab Four of Cley
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Trommelwirbel, Fanfaren, jede Menge Feenglitter: Happy Birthday lieber Klausbernd!!! Lass dich feiern!!!
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Liebe Pia
Das machte ich, es war ein super Geburtstag 🎂 in den wunderschönen Cotswolds und sooo viele tolle Geschenke 🎁 feines Essen 🥘 und überhaupt 🤗 Echt super 👍 Liebe 💖 Grüße aus Broadway
Klausbernd
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Das freut mich!
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Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for the wonderful message and those edgy photographs! 🙂
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You are very welcome 🙏
With love 💖
The Fab Four of Cley
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Danke für dein Thema, das du in so “schöne” Sätze verpackst. Nachdem die Menschheit heute Sachen produziert die keinen natürlichen Abfall bewirkt, fehlt es Großteils der Menschheit an Bildung, wie und womit der natürlich Raum und eigener Lebensraum zerstört wird. Ein sehr kleiner Kreis an gebildeten Personen wissen es sehrwohl und zerstören die natürlichen Ressourcen ganz bewusst. Als verantwortungsvoller “Wissender” kann man nur bei sich selber tun und handeln. Das soll uns aber nicht hindern das natürlich Schöne zu genießen. Grüße aus dem Gebirge.
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Da geben wir dir völlig recht. Wir, die wir noch in mehr oder weniger sauberer Natur leben, Gebirge und Meer 🌊 merken die Umweltverschmutzung bes. deutlich bzw. sind mehr als Großstädter sensibilisiert für sie.
Vielen Dank 🙏, mit herzlichen Grüßen aus dem Urlaub
The Fab Four of Cley
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As I usually do, I read lots of the comments on my way here, and some good points are made. I started out feeling overwhelmed by all there is to accomplish in cleaning and caring for our environment, but there are always solutions and many cleverer brains than mine to work on them. What you have done is to drum up a little more awareness and to shine a light on the problem. Bless you and thank you for using your voices in this way. 🙂 🙂
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Dear Jo
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma say “Thanks you so much and lots of fairy dust”.
We thought although everybody knows how much we pollute it needs a lot of reminding to make us all act differently.
We just came back from a wonderful holiday in the Cotswolds.
Wishing you a great week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Such beautiful beaches, Klaus. Yes, everything has to go somewhere and it’s best that it doesn’t to go into the ocean. Thanks for reminding us that we need to be ever-mindful of not polluting our environment. I’m so with you on “the stupid ignorant in America.” I and my husband are hugely disappointed with his idiocy on a daily basis.
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Thank you very much for you comment 🙂 🙂
We have to remind ourselves constantly as well. But we are getting better and better – at least we hope.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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The freshwater beaches of Lake Michigan have been struck hard with waste. I think the sea would be just as beautiful and even more so to see. Great message.. Our ignorant rulers do hardly see or listen to its people anymore…
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Thanks a lot!
Well, we all have to contribute stopping pollution. Yes, we need a Green Party like in Germany to make the rulers listen.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hallo ihr UK Küstenbewohner 🙂 vielleicht wollt ihr auf eurer reichweitenstarken seite ein bisschen in den Kontakten herumfragen und Sherlock spielen? Kamera sucht kleinen Besitzer, nachdem sie im Meer verschwand. Ist doch was für euch Literaten und journalistischen Bücherzauberer 😀 guckst du hier (..oh je wie tragisch :O Mac zeigt bei Foto nur noch das: 🤳🤳 :O unglaublich ..
http://ze.tt/junge-vergisst-kamera-am-strand-in-england-und-sie-schwimmt-bis-schleswig-holstein/
https://www.facebook.com/halligsuederoog/ mit Film der Kamera.
Vielleicht kennt ihr den Strand/ den Jungen 😉 LG mit Herz!!
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Also das ist ja ein Ding mit dieser Kamera! Wir hatten noch gar nicht davon gehört, aber Sirilein und Selmachen sind schon kosgeflattert als Sherlockinchens und werden sich umhören. Dazu müssen sie erst einmal in den Norden zu diesem Strand reisen.
Wir sind gespannt!
Habe herzlichen Dank für diese Geschichte – unglaublich (??)
Wir wünschen dir ein wunderschönes Wochenende und senden liebste Grüße
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ich wünsche euch allen auch einen schönes Adventswochenende 🙂 und freue mich, dass euch die Geschichte dieser Kamera auch so fasziniert 😀
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Ja, auf geheimnisvolle Weise trifft das klassische Motiv der Flaschenpost auf ein Bild der unzerstörbaren modernen Technologie. Das macht zumindest für uns die Geschichte so reizvoll.
Einen wunderschönen ersten Advent wünschen wir dir
The Fab Four of Cley
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Das dacht ich mir 😀 Kerzlein brennt schon. Hej då
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🕯hier auch und die Sauna 😓
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ohh nein .. sag nicht das eure Sauna brennt?! Warscheinlich meinst du sie ist an .. hoffentlich. Und du wirst es kaum glauben der BirkerMann feuert auch seit zei Stunden für mich vor.. gleich wirds hyggelig/mysigt .. dein DInalein hat es dann ja bestimmt auch nicht weit zur nächsten bastu 😉 und du bist allein zu Haus gebieben? Armer Master so ganz ohne weibliches Odeur um dich herum ists sicher auch nix. Hoff für dich die Holde ist bald zurück. Habt ihr den Geburtstag gebnührend gefeiert?
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… huch hier fehlt noch, dass die Sauna angeheizt ist und wir gleich nett vor uns hin schwitzen werden.
Hab eine wunderschöne Woche, voll Hygge
Bis bald
The Fab Four
Dina ist gerade in Norwegen
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Nee, nee, ich bin ja nicht ganz alleine: Sirilein und Selmachen sind auch hier geblieben. Wir drei sind nicht so reisefreudig. Dina ist in einer Woche wieder zurück bei uns und dann wird emsig unser Heim weihnachtlich dekoriert. Darauf freuen wir uns schon.
Keine Angst, unsere Sauna steht noch, wir haben fröhlich ausgeschwitzt und heute Morgen scheint fröhlich die Sonne bei 0 Grad C.
Den Geburtstag feierten wir in einem hoch gemütlichen Hotel in den Cotswolds, wo England sich am Englischsten und Romantischsten gibt. Es war richtig toll – und sooooo viele Geschenke 🙂
Hab eine gemütliche Woche
Klausbernd :-), Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma
Habt ihr Schnee?
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Wir haben absolut und überhaubt gar keinen Schnee nich (Litotes mehrfach) heut immerhin schonmal wieder glitzernden Raureif.. den geh ich jetzt auch mal gleich näher erkunden beim Joggen 😉
Hat das Dinalein ganz vielleicht ein paar schöne Fotos kreiert von den Cotswolds .. einer virtuellen kleinen Reise, hätte ich nichts entgegenzusetzen 😉 🏞🏔⛰ etwas runder und hüggelig hyggelig natürlich 😉
Was bin ich froh, das du noch Feelein um dich herum schweden hast. Auch eine wundervolle Woche euch und viel Sonne weiterhin 🙂
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Wir haben hier auch keinen Schnee, aber das ist normal. Hier schneit es längst nicht jedes Jahr, schade!
Oh ja, unsere liebe Dina hat sich in den Cotswolds den Finger wund fotografiert. An romantischen wie idyllischen Motiven mangelt es dort nicht. Da wird’s zumindest einen Blogbeitrag geben – versprochen!
Wenn du Litotes identifizieren kannst, nehmen wir an, dass du wie unser Masterchen Germanistik studiert hast oder solltest du gar Altphilologin sein? Aber das können wir uns bei dir weniger vorstellen.
Liebe Grüße vom sonnigen Meer
The Fab Four of Cley
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Die Germanistik reizte mich schon und die verlagsarbeit wie du ja weißt ebenfalls, in Potsdam hätte ich fast Patholinguistik studiert. (“Während des Studiums der Patholinguistik erlernen Sie theoretische und praktische Fähigkeiten, die zur Ausübung eines sprachtherapeutischen Berufes notwendig sind” Studiengangbeschreibung der Uni Potsdam). Ich hab jedenfalls keinen Master 😉 .. ein Staatsexamen nenn ich noch mein Eigen. Warum bin ich denn keine Altphilologin :D?
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Ich bin kein Altphilologe, da ich in Latein bedenklich schwächelte. Ich war begeisterter Germanist, lehrte das auch an der Uni in Montreal. Nordistik und Linguistik studierte ich auch. Aber das ist alles in einem anderen Leben gewesen, jedoch die Liebe zur Germanistik und nordischen Literatur blieb bestehen.
Ganz liebe Grüße nach Schweden 🇸🇪
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Ich bin sowieso begeistert von eurem Wissensfundus 🙂 und deine Vitae ist ja auch nicht von schlechten Eltern 😉 wer hat schon einen Wiki Eintrag? Also ich nicht 😉 Also bei mir reichts halt wirklich nur vom Schullatein .. lediglich zwei Jahre. Veterinärin bin ich nämlich dann auch nicht geworden.. daher Latinum nicht vollzogen.
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Unser Wissen stammt teilweise aus unserer großen Bibliothek 📚 die ich seit Monaten wie auch gerade jetzt katalogisiere und ordne. Wegen dieser Bibliothek 📚 leben unsere geliebten Buchfeen bei uns. Wir haben auch vor Jahren über Teile unserer Bibliothek gebloggt. Ich gebe mit Siri und Selma alle Bücher 📚 in ein Bibliotheksprogramm ein, entstaube sie dabei und ordne sie um, da es in einigen Regalen drunter und drüber geht. Wir sind große Büchersammler hier und jedes Zimmer ist voller Bücher. Das Programm hilft uns auch Bücher schnell zu finden. Übrigens die nordische Literatur teilt sich mit der Märchenliteratur ein Zimmer. Ich bin noch immer ein großer Fan der Kunstmärchen der deutschen Romantiker, bes. Tieck. Aber da sind wir noch lange nicht beim Katalogisieren angekommen. Wir werden wohl noch ein halbes Jahr benötigen, um alle Bücher 📚 in das Programm einzupflegen. Sirilein liebt es, als Bibliothekarin kräftig zu helfen und ihre Stupsnase in dieses und jenes Buch zu stecken, Selma ist mit so einem giftgrünen Antistaubhandschuh emsig zu Gange
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Hells, bells, das geschieht mir immer, wenn ich auf dem iPhone 📱 schreibe, schwuppdiwupp, weg die Post. Also Selma bekämpft Staub und Spinnen 🕷 wie eine Furie. Jetzt ist es dunkel geworden, da machen wir mal Schluss, auch mit dem Bloggen und verabschieden uns lieb
Klausbernd 🚶und 👭 Siri und Selma
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Dann ein guts Nächtl ihr fleißiger Bücherfreunde 😀
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Powerful message. People seldom remember that any action has consequences.
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Thank you VERY much 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a cosy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you! Have a lovely pre-Christmas time you too!
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We take our oceans for granted and I hope we don’t live to regret it. Protecting our environment needn’t be a hard task but there are those who seem intent on make it so.
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Thanks for commenting 🙂 🙂
Well, we need the sea and our whole environment – without it we can’t survive.
Wishing you a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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My pleasure, and you folks have a good week as well. :O)
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Why was it possible in the past without plastic and now it seems that we can no longer do without or is there no way back? Good that you Bookfayries shake us awaken again and make us aware of the problem! More manufacturers should switch to recyclable products and materials! But it is not just about plastic, there is more that Mother Earth or Mother Sea poisoned and polluted! And each of us should be more environmentally aware and deal with nature in a decent way. But this problem lies for the greater part in the hands of politicians who would have to implement a stricter environmental policy and to force big producers to produce more recyclable products. If they were already taking a step in the right direction, then the people naturally follow, I think so. Have a nice day, all of you.
Kind regards, Heidi
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Dear Heidi
it surely has to do with consumerism. People expect and feel they need much more than in the past.
On the continent, like in Germany, it helps having the Green Party in the government in many counties and it’s even the ruling party in the richest of all German counties. We agree that legislation is important but ecological thinking has to start on the personal level, how eveyone of us pollutes or not-pollutes.
By the way it’s interesting that the richest and best educated people in Germany vote for the Green Party. The more conservative and uneducated a person is the more likely she or he will be against green ideas.
Thank you very much for commenting.
We wish you a cosy pre-Christmas time
The Fab Four of Cley
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You’re absolutely right. I wishing to all of you also a cosy pre – Christmas time too.
Heidi 🙂
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Dear Heidi
We just decorated our house and are waiting for a nice little Christmas tree.
Thank you very much
The Fab Four of Cley
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That’s wonderful! It will be a very beautiful and magical tree 🙂 I decorated the house for Christmas a few days ago 🙂 Wishing you and Fab Four of Cley a Joyful Christmasdays and a Magical Christmas!
Jolly greetings… Heidi 🙂
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Your blog is beautiful. I have been a sea fairy for as long as I can remember here on the east coast of Fkorida. When will we ever learn to care for our planet and fellow animals that we share Mother Earth with? Thank you for the lovely post.
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Thank you so much, our dear fairy friend 🙂 🙂
With lots of finest fairy dust to Florida … here it comes …
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Thank you,,,I see it now! 🙂
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🦋😊
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