The big day has arrived and the general election for the Bundestag is taking place today. Who will be the winners and who the losers? It looks as if there are some surprises among the many not-surprises.

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It's the weekend, and that means no work for the office and free time to work on other stuff (still at the same desk). In particular, I'm continuing on the “workbook” for the Easter workshop, and I'm happy to say it is coming along fine.

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Today the public transport workers in Mainz are on strike for higher salaries and extra time off, and the trams and buses aren't running (except for an “emergency schedule” which isn't actually a schedule – prospective riders are encouraged to wait at the stop to see whether anything will turn up, and service ceases entirely after 8.30pm).

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It may not come as a huge surprise that today is just as busy as yesterday.

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Between work, the weekly shopping run, cooking dinner, and sundry other chores there isn't much time for blogging today, so this will be brief.

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Another dance night at the FSCDC e.V. – I haven't written the class blog yet, so you'll have to check the club web site for it later.

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Lots to do at work today so not so much time for other things (the usual “quiz night” on BBC, which is nice).

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The weather is reasonably nice today and I'm taking the opportunity to go out with the Nordic walking poles once more.

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The other day I mentioned the Central Germany Branch Easter workshop that I'm teaching this year, and I've had the list of dances for a while. Now that I've sent them and the lead tunes to the musicians in Japan, I can work on my own more detailed preparation.

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I've been getting some weird(ish) requests for ceilidh-type events recently. Managed to dispose of some of them fairly rapidly but am not entirely sure what to do with another one of them.

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