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RenateKappes
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EU citizen in Eurocity in the middle of Europe. Here you will find some more about biodiversity, permaculture, sustainability • mixtures • sayable, unsayable • philosophy, Enlightenment, the unconscious & the five senses • history of art, concepts & ideas.
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🌿🪻🌷🌻🪴🌳☘️🍀🍂🌲🎄🎁🎊

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Puppers Inca and Java advertising 2026 Limited Edition Zwartbles Ireland Calendar.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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In a country where its president is valued with pretty Christmas cards and tea cosies, he has done many things right for a long time. All the best in retirement, Michael D. Higgins. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social

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Christmas card of Ireland President Michael D. Higgins and Bród, one of his two Bernese Mountain Dogs, 2021. Photo and screenshot by https://caoimhelikesdrawing.com/shop
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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If you can plug things up, there's probably nothing more satisfying than mending holes in socks. You also have to see this work of arts & crafts from the front. Simply fantastic from @collingwoodnorris.bsky.social‬.

#InternationalRepairDay #visiblemending #repair #reducewaste #sustainableliving
Visible creative mending at a cardigan. Photo & Screenshot by Flora Collingwood-Norris (@collingwoodnorr).
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I totally agree with you, dear libaoscompanion. 🐶🖤🩶❣️@suzannacrampton.bsky.social
A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton. A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear at the AGA. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton. A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear and a younger blond puppy, beloved Maya eatind windfall pears. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton. A slightly older, gray-haired black puppy, beloved Bear smuggling with tiny puppy, beloved Inca in his new bed. Photo & screenshot by Suzanna Crampton.
October 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I edited the first German-language biography. Therefore, I'm somewhat familiar with him. I would probably choose "Histoire de Melody Nelson".

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Cover of the book: Serge Gainsbourg. Für eine Handvoll Gitanes, by Sylvie Simmons, 2009
September 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Cooking during Indian summer, there is ratatouille from various root vegetables, turnip, parsnip, parsley root & carrots, and chutneys from beets & apples and peas & apples.

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Photo: Radishes made for Dotty by Nancy Messier. https://de.pinterest.com/nancymessier/mini-art-quilts-by-nancy-messier/?lp=true Photo: Carrots made for Dotty by Nancy Messier. https://de.pinterest.com/nancymessier/mini-art-quilts-by-nancy-messier/?lp=true
September 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Agree. 👋🏻 For me it's remarkable Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com chose a recipe for German Zwetschgenkuchen (Plum Cake) and not for Apple Cake. However, Ukrainian, Polish, and German bakers know that this recipe for 🍎🍏 and 🫐 is the same.
Recipe for German Plum Cake. Screenshot by Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com.
September 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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May his memory be a blessing, and deepest condolences to his family and friends. 🥀 💔🕯️Pastor Frank Engelbrecht married Robert Redford and his second wife, Sibylle Szaggars, in Hamburg in 2009. In conversation, he remembers the Hollywood star.
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Condolences to Mr. Redford's death. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.
September 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"Echos of Ebony." 👩🏻‍🌾🍃🐑

Attentive ears and watchful eyes. 🐺🐺

Thanks for the enjoyable ride with Bear as a passenger and Inca on your shoulder. 🚗👩🏻‍🌾🤎🐶🩶🖤🐕
Attentive ears and watchful eyes. A herd of zwartbles hoggets and lambs in front of a fence, behind which the two sheepdogs Brindle and Lorca are waiting. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton. Tiny dog family mummy Inca, daughter Maya and son Java didn't want to herd the Zwartbles ewes through the tall, wet nettle thicket. They waited in the courtyard, but came over the path to join the shepherds and Suzanna. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton. A ride with Bear as a passenger and Inca on Susanna's shoulder. Black and silver-grey dog sitting as a passenger in Susanna's car and watching the landscape. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton. A ride with Bear as a passenger and Inca on Susanna's shoulder. Tiny dog Inca sitting in Susanna's car on Susanna's shoulder and watching the landscape. Screenshot: Suzanna Crampton.
September 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Thank you, Martin, only exact numbers will help:

"The number of tourists who use market-standard accommodations as their primary overnight accommodation increased by 1.5% compared to the previous year. Within this accommodation type, the number of hotel accommodations increased by 1.4%,
Screenshot from Spanish Tourist Information: "The number of tourists who use market-standard accommodations as their primary overnight accommodation increased by 1.5% compared to the previous year. Within this accommodation type, the number of hotel accommodations increased by 1.4%, while the number of rental apartments decreased by 3.6%. The number of non-standard accommodations increased by 1.8%."
September 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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which you eat with currywurst in the Ruhr area and Berlin. What a hodgepodge. Too bad it's so unauthentic.
Bavarian white sausages, pretzel and sweet mustard. Weißwürste, Laugenbrezel und süßer Senf. Photo credit[s] Couleur / Pixabay https://pixabay.com/de/users/couleur-1195798/ https://pixabay.com/de/photos/wei%C3%9Fw%C3%BCrste-wurst-wurstwaren-3378593/ Sunday roast, roast pork, spaetzle and sauce. Sonntagsbraten, Schweinebraten, Spätzle und Soße. Photo credit[s] Hans / Pixabay https://pixabay.com/de/users/hans-2/ https://pixabay.com/de/photos/sonntagsbraten-schweinebraten-54324/ A bratwurst sausage served with curry-flavoured ketchup and curry powder, French fries red-white (ketchup and mayonnaise) Currywurst, Pommes frites rot-weiß (Ketchup & Mayonnaise) Photo credit[s] planet_fox / Pixabay https://pixabay.com/de/users/planet_fox-4691618/ https://pixabay.com/de/photos/currywurst-pommes-essen-ern%C3%A4hrung-5271339/
August 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I'm glad to hear that, dear Martin. It's a very popular destination, just check out the worthwhile photo gallery on their website. The popular German poet and playwright Georg Büchner ("Dantons Tod", "Leonce und Lena", "Woyzeck") hid here as a student because he had secretly published an essay
Menu of the Badenburg Ritterkeller restaurant. Photo credit[s] by Gaststätte Badenburg Ritterkeller, Julia Bierbaum. https://www.badenburg.de/speisekarte/ Burgknochen with baguette and garlic dip optionally also with oven-baked potato and herb quark. Photo credit[s] by Gaststätte Badenburg Ritterkeller, Julia Bierbaum. https://www.badenburg.de/speisekarte/ A shovel of dirt with oven potatoes and quark. Grilled pork breast with herb butter, coleslaw, and a freshly baked baguette or oven potatoes with herb quark. Photo credit[s] by Gaststätte Badenburg Ritterkeller, Julia Bierbaum. https://www.badenburg.de/speisekarte/
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Now British artists like @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social are losing their second leg as well. A catastrophe. EU artists can compensate it somewhat, but the damage is still enormous. @suzannacrampton.bsky.social @barnacrealpacas.bsky.social @nialloconghaile.bsky.social
Post & Photos Liza Adamczewski @lizaadamczewski
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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out-of-time snapshots in differentiated shades of gray or earthy tones. One can recognize her characteristic line work.

www.maryanngelly.com/drawing
Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Fountain at Shore Temple. This is an oil painting of a fountain discovered under the sand at the Shore Temple in Mamallapuram Tamil Nadu, Southern India.  https://www.maryanngelly.com/ Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Stone Wall in Hedgerow. This is an oil painting done on a panel, attempting to capture the sense of tangled growth in an ancient field boundary. https://www.maryanngelly.com/ Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Rock Cut Temple. This is a large charcoal drawing done from a temple carved from solid stone in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. https://www.maryanngelly.com/ Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Unfinished Temple. This is a large charcoal drawing of an unfinished temple cut from solid stone. Five Rathas, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu in Southern India. https://www.maryanngelly.com/
August 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Male torsos and bodies are modeled from sewn and stuffed tarpaulin or raw linen. Seams and individual pieces of fabric represent a muscle group of the body.

She sews sackcloth strips and string into bodies that also represent the muscle groups.
www.maryanngelly.com/sculpture
Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Basket Head. Head formed of twine and string, formed over paper shape, with eyes made of marbles and teeth of clay. https://www.maryanngelly.com/ Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Man of String. String used to represent muscle groups in the human body. https://www.maryanngelly.com/ Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Head of Wire and Mesh. Stiffened needlepoint mesh fabric, with copper wires that follow the paths of the main facial nerves in the human head.  https://www.maryanngelly.com/ Photo credit[s]: Mary Anne Gelly, Linen Man. Detail of half-size human figure formed of unbleached linen, stuffed with pillow stuffing and quilted. https://www.maryanngelly.com/
August 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Thanks to @suzannacrampton.bsky.social for the discovery of the brilliant Irish artist Dorothy Cross.

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💮 www.dorothycross.com
Book by the Irish artist Dorothy Cross: Kinship, Available from The Lilliput Press Ltd. A card with with a drawn dung beetle, a ball of dung, and a poem from an American after she’d visit #BlackSheepFarm & heard all about dung beetles environmental importance. Post & pictures by Susanna Crampton. Book by the Irish artist Dorothy Cross: Kinship, Available from The Lilliput Press Ltd. Picture by Susanna Crampton. Book by the Irish artist Dorothy Cross: Kinship, Available from The Lilliput Press Ltd. A card with with a drawn dung beetle, a ball of dung, and a poem from an American after she’d visit #BlackSheepFarm & heard all about dung beetles environmental importance. Picture by Susanna Crampton. A card with with a drawn dung beetle, a ball of dung, and a poem from an American after she’d visit #BlackSheepFarm & heard all about dung beetles environmental importance: never gonna give poo up never gonna let poo down never gonna run around and desert poo never gonna make poo cry never gonna say poobye never gonna tell a lie and hurt poo Picture by Susanna Crampton.
August 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Gardens from a bird's-eye view. I am fascinated by the embroidered images by Collette Kinley. The textile and embroidery artist from Cambridgeshire is inspired by nature. 🌿 🌸 With this #embroidery, she won a competition at the Saatchi Gallery in 2020.
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Embroidered garden from a bird's-eye view. Award winning embroidery at Saatchi Gallery. Picture by by Collette Kinley.
August 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Appeasement doesn’t solve real issues just makes it to into continuous compromise to solve those problems & have elastic boundaries." (All quotes by Suzanna Crampton, Feb 17, 2021, ZwartblesIE / formerly Twitter)
Mount Bromo, located in the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park on the Indonesian island of Java. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Puppy Java warm and safe in Susanna's jacket. Puppy Java lies in blooming thyme. His name refers to the island of Java, where Suzanna worked, and the coffee brand of the same name. Post & pictures by Suzanna Crampton.
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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surrounded by gigantic vegetation only to return another year to find the area destroyed.
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I was there in 1992/93. Twas sickening then what I saw. Destruction&soil erosion & 100s of acres of row upon row of palm oil palms. What brought me to tears was walking along the edge of a rain forest
Suzanna was "in several places. Just outside Jakarta in wildlife park & Surabaya staying in zoo there. I can’t remember how long I was in different locations as I was also working in Malaysia. A week in Bogor for wildlife conference & visited Mount Bromo & several temples in Central Java." Post & pictures by Suzanna Crampton. Mouse-deer / Chevrotain at dusk. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), also known as the Sumatran rhino, hairy rhinoceros or Asian two-horned rhinoceros off-road. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. A monkey in a safe environment. Picture by Suzanna Crampton.
August 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"I don’t pay much attention to WWF as they’re more a corporate charity & dependent on funds from none environmental sources such as those who produce “green” biofuels from soya, palm oil & maze. They’ve a preference for monocultured veg instead of biodiverse regenerative farming.
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Suzanna was "in several places. Just outside Jakarta in wildlife park&Surabaya staying in zoo there. I can’t remember how long I was in different locations as I was also working in Malaysia. A week in Bogor for wildlife conference & visited Mount Bromo & several temples in Central Java." Post & pictures by Suzanna Crampton. An Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) injured in a cage. The cat has an amputated back paw. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. An emergency animal is being medically treated by a male person. A second man holds the animal in a secure position. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Deer-pigs / babirusas at a watering hole. Picture by Suzanna Crampton.
August 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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"I worked in South East Asia in early 1990s so saw the huge destruction of thousands of acres of rainforests particularly on Borneo. I helped document rehabilitation of orangutang.
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This is me with baby orangutan when I was working in South East Asia. Both child & Orangutan would cling to me."
Suzanna kneeling with a baby orangutan in her arms and her camera, she strokes the elder orangutan who is lounging in front of her. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Suzanna kneels and photographs the elder orangutan sitting in front of her. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Suzanna Crampton with baby orangutan and two children when she was working in South East Asia. Both one child & Orangutan would cling to her." Picture by Suzanna Crampton.
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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That's what Suzanna is referring to: "I laundered my Indonesian clothes from over 35 years ago."

Look at minute 9:20 - 11:05.
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Photo of batik Indonesian cloths drying on a clothesline in the wind. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Suzanna Crampton "was in South East in early 1990s so saw the huge destruction of thousands of acres of rainforests particularly on Borneo. I helped document rehabilitation of orangutang. So there’s no such thing as sustainable palm oil." Post & picture by Suzanna Crampton. Suzanna Crampton with baby orangutan inspecting her camera. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Suzanna kneeling with a baby orangutan in her arms and her camera, she looks at an older orangutan lying in front of her. Picture by Suzanna Crampton.
August 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Batik is deeply rooted in Indonesian culture and has a long tradition. It's not only a craft, but also an important guardian of history and cultural identity.
Photo: pisauikan / Pixabay https://pixabay.com/de/users/pisauikan-4552082/ https://pixabay.com/de/photos/hijab-schleier-muslimische-frau-4972539/ Photo: Wijaaak / Pixabay https://pixabay.com/de/users/wijaaak-13244668/ https://pixabay.com/de/photos/kultur-mensch-batik-asien-4389786/
August 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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羊飼い猫の日記 • Ein Schäfer auf vier Pfoten • Bodacious Il gatto pastore • Profession Chat de Berger.

A Spanish translation is still missing!
Bodacious, the Shepherd Cat sits on a post and counts sheep. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Bodacious, the Shepherd Cat shepherds his sheep. Picture by Suzanna Crampton.
August 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Yes, she's fantastic. You can look forward to her second book, which will hopefully be released soon.

I'm really curious about your anecdotes. Where do you currently live? I'm not sure if it's in the UK or in Spain?
“Bodacious the Shepherd Cat” is translated into 4 languages: 羊飼い猫の日記 • Ein Schäfer auf vier Pfoten • Bodacious Il gatto pastore • Profession Chat de Berger. Post & picture by Suzanna Crampton. Suzanna Crampton and Inca, the World's Smallest Sheepdog, present the window display of Kilkenny city’s Book Center, where a book reading took place. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Bodacious the Shepherd Cat reads a review of his book, ghostwriting by his shepherdess. Picture by Suzanna Crampton. Portrait of Bodacious the Shepherd Cat and his canine crew, Pepper, Bear & Mojo (The Big Fellow). Picture by Suzanna Crampton.
August 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM