The woodpecker does not take a lunch break – Diepresse.com
At that time, walls were tore down, now they should be built again.
I was recently in a region for a week in which I have not been for a good 30 years. Almost everything has changed. At that time there were not only the satellite dishes on the roofs. But one thing brought back some memories. The only business in town was three hours at lunchtime. So it used to be everywhere, afterwards I told the amazed youth. And on Wednesday afternoon everything was closed. Nothing was around the clock, not even the television program. How long it seems to be. A revolution was like the lunch breaks in the trade.
However, the small grocery store in the village also blocks at six o'clock, as in all classic commuter regions, where the day begins earlier than anywhere else. It is quiet here during the day, no people can be seen behind the window panes, not in the garden anyway. At lunchtime, the school bus drops a few children.
The silence here are looking for people to whom it booms too much in their ears, whether from the noise around them or when they hear their own blood rushing. Then the woodpecker comes outside in the forest, it is constantly hammering against the tree trunk, up to 12,000 times a day, says the research. The impact speed is around 25 km/h. Pounding is part of the beginning of spring like the sudden change of the icy arable furrows to mud within a few hours.
At the time when I was last here, there was a lot of talk of the Cold War. On the bridges and on strategically important road sections there were plug -in blocks: there were shafts under the round lids that steel girders could have been put to stop tanks. When the Russian comes, we said as children and creeped up a little.
Then came the time when fences and walls were torn down, which celebrated open borders. It's not that long ago, but it feels like that.
friederike.lebl-buerger@diepresse.obstaclecom
