Little Red Corvette

I can never hear the Prince song without my mind changing the lyric from Corvette to Courgette. Heaven only knows how that came to pass but pass it did.

This is one of the flowers on the courgette plant on the terrace. It has gone a bit bnonkers and there are about 10 flowers on it, we are looking forward to a bumper crop. I chose this Blip because I think the flower looks a bit like one of the Graboids from Tremors.

It has been a good day. I practised mehr Deutsch, I worked for hours formatting a script (nothing takes the enjoyment away from a film quicker than when you have to watch parts of it over and over again) and we went to dinner with I&A.

Dinner was fun - I tried to speak as much Deutsch as I could and I was very gently corrected. I think I'm speaking a weird hybrid language of my own now - Gerglish vielleicht? - but it was a lot of fun. I asked why all the rivers are all either Die oder Der (Die Mosel but Der Rhein) but there are no Das rivers. The answer, as always, seems to be "You just have to learn it".

I find that I speak a lot more German when I don't feel embarassed by my mistakes. I really enjoy it when I understand and can respond.