Showing posts with label Aachen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aachen. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

Just for fun (so he said) and a bit of variety
He enrolled in AA to understand sobriety
So he gave up the grog before he’d even drunk it
And eloped with his mentor, the spry Mrs Plunkett

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Post Haste? What's That?

Someone Should Have Expressed It Better

Was the stamp still valid? A holiday postcard put into a mailbox 33 years ago finally arrived at its destination in Germany this week. The picture postcard was sent by a holidaymaker in the Bavarian Alps to a friend in the city of Aachen, 550 kilometres away. Both the sender and the recipient are long dead. The postal service could not explain why the card took so long to reach its destination. They suspect someone might have found it and sent it on again.

FOOTNOTE: Dead letter office.