It was another thunder and lightning day in Hamburg, and the second day of Pentecost: Pfingstmontag, a public holiday. As yesterday, the day started of grant, it was hot, a blue sky persuaded thousands of people to grab there barbies and make it to the parks, lakes, rivers, and canals of Hamburg. By 6pm, the skies had opened and what had started like a glorious day became a total washout. – Sounds like life.

Pádraig had two big changes today in his care: one of the therapists is passing on the baton to a colleague (Pádraig will see her from time to time), and one of his nurses is leaving the hospital altogether to work in home care. It is a strange feeling to have been in hospital for such a long time that you don’t just see staff going on holidays and coming back, but that you see people you have started to appreciate and like, leave altogether. Pádraig sat out in the wheelchair today, which is always great! He is doing so well when he is sitting up, his breathing gets better, and he is so much more able to ‘work’ with the speech valve (another 2 hours today).

80 years ago this June, a duck had his first appearance in the movies. 1934 was a difficult year for many, in Germany big changes were happening. The short film, in which the duck still only played a supporting role, has a moral: there is no food if you don’t want to work for it. Imagine a movie like this today. Even more interesting is the ‘localised’, translated and dubbed, version of the movie (link below).

Here is today’s most re-tweeted tweet (from Caoimhe): “@KantanMT @VistaTECglobal@medialocate @AlchemyAPI @welocalize@Kilgray @CNGL @translationswp@LocWorld Comhghairdeas! Fantastic @ForPadraig”

And here is a picture of the man who called me some months ago asking whether it would be alright to organise a fundraiser for Pádraig. Thank you!

Today’s German Music Tip
Die kluge kleine Henne (1934) – Donal Duck’s first movie appearance
What’s hot
Duck
What’s cold
Lightning
The German word/phrase/verse of the day
Frohes Pfingstfest! (Immer noch)