Hello world!

Well, here we go. I’m try to make a “where I am”, rather than a “who I am”, blog but I expect I’ll slip into some of the former thoughts as I have to be where I am, don’t I?
There’s a lot to tell, but this first entry will be short, otherwise it will never get done. Just an introduction:

Abenheim is a village in Germany, politically part of the small city of Worms, on the west side of the Rhein river between Frankfurt and Mannheim; geographically it’s part of the countryside, a self-contained village 3km from the North-West corner of the city conglomerate. So we have the best of many worlds, but more of that another day.

Abenheim has about 2000 residents and is well supplied with 2 butchers, 2 bakers, a supermarket, a chemist, 2 doctors, a couple of other shops for all sorts of useful things, a pub, a restaurant, and somewhat more than 20 vinyards (I’ve counted those with signs outside but there’s a lot more unannounced wine makers here!). I do my best to help with the main local industry (by sampling as many of the products as possible…)

I’m Len Killick (english) and I live here with my wife Hedi (german). We have a small music shop, specialising in accordeons. We play a lot of music ourselves: I play diatonic accordeon for folk dance and in a project called Celtic Journeys, Hedi sings and plays recorder, and we both play in a local Posaunenchor – that’s a church brass band. Obviously I’ll be taking you to the places around Abenheim where I go, as well as adding observations and notes about anything I find interesting on the way.

Why am I doing this? Abenheim doesn’t have a web site, and if it did it would probably be only in German, and I don’t see why the english speaking world shouldn’t be able to see what life is like in this part of the world – because I think it’s just great!