St Martin is back on this damp and chilly early November evening: horseback centurion in red cloak, kids with self-made lanterns, a brass band, and a huge bonfire in the old town 🎺🔥
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
St Martin is back on this damp and chilly early November evening: horseback centurion in red cloak, kids with self-made lanterns, a brass band, and a huge bonfire in the old town 🎺🔥
After a rainy week and a frosty morning Halloween surprises with some hazy sunshine in time for the All Hallows weekend 🎃 This calls for some extended summer vibes with lemon and Mon Chéri ice cream from La Passione del Gelato - best in town! 😋🍦
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
After a rainy week and a frosty morning Halloween surprises with some hazy sunshine in time for the All Hallows weekend 🎃 This calls for some extended summer vibes with lemon and Mon Chéri ice cream from La Passione del Gelato - best in town! 😋🍦
Is it a good or a bad thing that nothing much has changed here in the more that 30 years since I was a student? Now for my Sociolinguistics lecture I take some time to appreciate the splendid 50s design, including the quaint cubicle where the lecturers can get in the zone 😄🎓
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Is it a good or a bad thing that nothing much has changed here in the more that 30 years since I was a student? Now for my Sociolinguistics lecture I take some time to appreciate the splendid 50s design, including the quaint cubicle where the lecturers can get in the zone 😄🎓
Autumn colours 🍁
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Autumn colours 🍁
More apple picking (for storage), with an interested equine audience 🐴 All heritage varieties (from top): ‚Grüner Boskoop‘, (green, tasty & durable), ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘ (sweet, traces of raspberry), ‚Roter Boskoop‘, (red) ‚Goldrenette von Blenheim‘ (complex, spicy taste) 🍎🍏🍎
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
More apple picking (for storage), with an interested equine audience 🐴 All heritage varieties (from top): ‚Grüner Boskoop‘, (green, tasty & durable), ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘ (sweet, traces of raspberry), ‚Roter Boskoop‘, (red) ‚Goldrenette von Blenheim‘ (complex, spicy taste) 🍎🍏🍎
Busy day making apple juice in the local apple press run by the town’s Orchard and Gardening Co-op. Apples are washed and pressed, the juice pasteurised (we keep some raw juice back for cider-making 🍺), then filled into 5 litre bags. 500 litres should last a while! 🍎🍏🍎
October 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Busy day making apple juice in the local apple press run by the town’s Orchard and Gardening Co-op. Apples are washed and pressed, the juice pasteurised (we keep some raw juice back for cider-making 🍺), then filled into 5 litre bags. 500 litres should last a while! 🍎🍏🍎
Apple harvest on Unity Day weekend ⛅️ Record crop this year, with almost 1000 kg for juice alone (our 80-year old trees carry amazingly tasty heritage varieties such as ‚Rheinischer Bohnapfel’ and ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘), and half the trees still ripe for storage apple picking 🍎🍏🍎
October 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Apple harvest on Unity Day weekend ⛅️ Record crop this year, with almost 1000 kg for juice alone (our 80-year old trees carry amazingly tasty heritage varieties such as ‚Rheinischer Bohnapfel’ and ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘), and half the trees still ripe for storage apple picking 🍎🍏🍎
At the local Amtsgericht (county court) today, built in 1912 when our town was a county seat in the Imperial Prussian Province of the Rhine. Admiring the grand architecture while waiting. A bit of a daunting atmosphere (intentionally, I think) but nice to see it still in use ⚖️🏛️
September 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At the local Amtsgericht (county court) today, built in 1912 when our town was a county seat in the Imperial Prussian Province of the Rhine. Admiring the grand architecture while waiting. A bit of a daunting atmosphere (intentionally, I think) but nice to see it still in use ⚖️🏛️
Harvest is bountiful this year, with zucchini still going strong 🥒, hops ready for collection 🍺, and grapes 🍇 and apples 🍎 picking up that extra sweetness during the last warm days ⛅️
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Harvest is bountiful this year, with zucchini still going strong 🥒, hops ready for collection 🍺, and grapes 🍇 and apples 🍎 picking up that extra sweetness during the last warm days ⛅️
September, and the parish fair has come to town - also a timely reminder that summer is drawing to a close 🎡🍦🎠
September 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
September, and the parish fair has come to town - also a timely reminder that summer is drawing to a close 🎡🍦🎠
Haying done in the apple orchard, just in time before the weather turns autumnal 🍎🌂
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Haying done in the apple orchard, just in time before the weather turns autumnal 🍎🌂
Late summer in the apple orchard - looks to be a good harvest! 🍎🍏🍎 Summer apples Gravensteiner & James Grieve (lower left) are ready for apple pie and cider, autumn Kaiser Wilhelm & Croncels (upper left) still very tart, winter Boskop red & green (right) coming along nicely
August 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Late summer in the apple orchard - looks to be a good harvest! 🍎🍏🍎 Summer apples Gravensteiner & James Grieve (lower left) are ready for apple pie and cider, autumn Kaiser Wilhelm & Croncels (upper left) still very tart, winter Boskop red & green (right) coming along nicely
Summer days 🌦️ Walk through old town and garden: Japanese rose (Ger. Apfelrose, „apple rose“, after the rosehips - in Japanese, similarly, hamanashi, „beach pear“), chicory (Ger. Wegwarte, „way marker“), and the glorious sunflower (unsurprisingly, Sonnenblume)🌻
July 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Summer days 🌦️ Walk through old town and garden: Japanese rose (Ger. Apfelrose, „apple rose“, after the rosehips - in Japanese, similarly, hamanashi, „beach pear“), chicory (Ger. Wegwarte, „way marker“), and the glorious sunflower (unsurprisingly, Sonnenblume)🌻
The rainy weather has been good for the berry garden: redcurrant (Ger. Johannisbeere, ripe around St. John‘s Day), gooseberry (well-named Stachelbeere „sting berry“), raspberry (Himbeere „hind‘s berry“). All perfect for the summer dish Rote Grütze (berry porridge) - try it! 🍓🥣
July 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The rainy weather has been good for the berry garden: redcurrant (Ger. Johannisbeere, ripe around St. John‘s Day), gooseberry (well-named Stachelbeere „sting berry“), raspberry (Himbeere „hind‘s berry“). All perfect for the summer dish Rote Grütze (berry porridge) - try it! 🍓🥣
Sadly, I’ll miss the end of @cl2025.co.uk as I am heading back to Trier for exam season. It’s been a pleasure & a privilege - so many inspiring talks! Happy that there will be recordings of the plenaries. A last impression of Aston campus (CL might help there, too…) 📚🎓 #cl2025
July 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sadly, I’ll miss the end of @cl2025.co.uk as I am heading back to Trier for exam season. It’s been a pleasure & a privilege - so many inspiring talks! Happy that there will be recordings of the plenaries. A last impression of Aston campus (CL might help there, too…) 📚🎓 #cl2025
Dinner after a long @cl2025.co.uk day at the Bacchus Bar (under the Burlington Arcade) 📚🎓 & enjoying the stunning atmosphere, decor, and food! #cl2025
July 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Dinner after a long @cl2025.co.uk day at the Bacchus Bar (under the Burlington Arcade) 📚🎓 & enjoying the stunning atmosphere, decor, and food! #cl2025
Customizing my serendipitous Birmingham @cl2025.co.uk souvenir from Peter Forson hat shop in beautiful Great Western Arcade 🎩👒 A flat cap seems just the thing! Not sure what this device is called, though 🤔 #cl2025
July 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Customizing my serendipitous Birmingham @cl2025.co.uk souvenir from Peter Forson hat shop in beautiful Great Western Arcade 🎩👒 A flat cap seems just the thing! Not sure what this device is called, though 🤔 #cl2025
Afternoon walk through the city @cl2025.co.uk & doing some #linguisticlandscaping (because how could I not…) 📚🎓 Encountered what, according to reliable humint sources, is the quintessential Brummie phrase & cultural identifier. Any insights, fellow (B’ham?) linguists? #cl2025
July 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Afternoon walk through the city @cl2025.co.uk & doing some #linguisticlandscaping (because how could I not…) 📚🎓 Encountered what, according to reliable humint sources, is the quintessential Brummie phrase & cultural identifier. Any insights, fellow (B’ham?) linguists? #cl2025
Ready for the morning sessions @cl2025.co.uk 📚🎓 This time the choice is easy, with our very own talk on using corpora in the EFL classroom, with Caroline Collet, and talks on data-driven learning in context & teacher development. Still would have liked to see all the others, though! 😬 #cl2025
July 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Ready for the morning sessions @cl2025.co.uk 📚🎓 This time the choice is easy, with our very own talk on using corpora in the EFL classroom, with Caroline Collet, and talks on data-driven learning in context & teacher development. Still would have liked to see all the others, though! 😬 #cl2025
“Any corpus is like the Emerald City - you need to go inside & poke around a bit” 🏰 In her plenary @cl2025.co.uk @hankslizzy.bsky.social takes us along the yellow brick road to LANA-CASE, tackling representativeness: what (register), who (demographics), and how (authenticity) 📚🎓 #cl2025
July 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
“Any corpus is like the Emerald City - you need to go inside & poke around a bit” 🏰 In her plenary @cl2025.co.uk @hankslizzy.bsky.social takes us along the yellow brick road to LANA-CASE, tackling representativeness: what (register), who (demographics), and how (authenticity) 📚🎓 #cl2025
Sampling the welcome breeze before the afternoon session @cl2025.co.uk Spoilt for choice with seven parallel talks - for me it’s the Methods panel, with talks on children’s storybooks, keyness, and corpus semiotics 📚🎓 #cl2025
June 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Sampling the welcome breeze before the afternoon session @cl2025.co.uk Spoilt for choice with seven parallel talks - for me it’s the Methods panel, with talks on children’s storybooks, keyness, and corpus semiotics 📚🎓 #cl2025
Ursula Lutzky (WU Vienna) presents a study on webcare on Twitter across industries @cl2025.co.uk 📚🎓 The data shows webcare is more than just customer care, including marketing and relationship management, as well as mass (ad) tweets, though strategies vary considerably #cl2025
June 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ursula Lutzky (WU Vienna) presents a study on webcare on Twitter across industries @cl2025.co.uk 📚🎓 The data shows webcare is more than just customer care, including marketing and relationship management, as well as mass (ad) tweets, though strategies vary considerably #cl2025
The first afternoon panel @cl2025.co.uk starts with Sylvia Jaworska @uniofreading.bsky.social & Gerlinde Mautner (WU Vienna) investigating the role of language in business & management scholarship: no linguistic turn yet - neglect or unrequited love? Perhaps a rebrand could help? 📚🎓 #cl2025
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The first afternoon panel @cl2025.co.uk starts with Sylvia Jaworska @uniofreading.bsky.social & Gerlinde Mautner (WU Vienna) investigating the role of language in business & management scholarship: no linguistic turn yet - neglect or unrequited love? Perhaps a rebrand could help? 📚🎓 #cl2025
„You’re just number-crunchers, then“ - „It’s like deconstructing coq-au-vin: you can’t taste the food!“ First keynote of @cl2025.co.uk by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social on the uneasy relationship between corpus linguistics and context 📚🎓
June 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
„You’re just number-crunchers, then“ - „It’s like deconstructing coq-au-vin: you can’t taste the food!“ First keynote of @cl2025.co.uk by @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social on the uneasy relationship between corpus linguistics and context 📚🎓
