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This is a private page with no financial purpose.

I am my own privacy officer.

I don’t advertise anything but sometimes I can’t prevent some adds in the linked other sources. I use those sources only because I think they are worth it. From what I understand by now, I do not use cockies which I hate. I don’t give away any personal informations. And try to avoid Add Inns which do so. I would not consider myselve as a so called influencer but if I like something or hate something, I claim the freedom of speech. And the freedom of art.

Some of my blogs offer the possibility, do leave comments. I do not publish those automatically.

I -read them,- anonymize them and -optionally publish them without the personal data. Than I delete that data.

I am surprised and proud, that bullshit gets so much attention and that today 27.03.2020 I even had an attempted Brute Force Attack.

Update 22.10.2020 Luck Duck Sheila in person received a phishing mail. Somebody was trying to steal her credit card number and identity.

Here is a snapshot of my in the meantime deactivated wordpress statistic 01.04.2020 which might be an indication of who is going to dominate the 21’st century.

Update: I no longer use statistic functions after a new sentence of the high German Court. I also canceled using specific antispam Add Inns.

This site is something to read and to keep my mind busy with nice memories on the grim way to work every day.

I started a homepage in 1997 on the Compuserve network. Who was a pioneer who some of you younger folks might not have even heard of before. And which allowed me to stay in touch with friends in the USA in those old days. Compuserve was later taken over by AOL. In my young days I learned to operate Apple II E Computers in school by a math teacher who only focused on creating boring graphs from mathematical functions. These were the times then arcade games like Space Invader became popular. And for some time I had an Atari Computer with a database program which was called something like ADIMENTS. I learned some SQL on a UNIX System in the late 1980’ties. And I do have some limited PHP knowledge which so far I barely used here.

And I always liked travelling and made my first Interail Tour in the mid 1980’ties. And next to some holy water from Lourdes, France which grandma gave me I always took my Luck Duck Sheila along on those trips as mascot since I started travelling. And by that I never had bad luck on my trips. Occationally I took some pictures of Sheila on the way, later mainly slides for the better picture Quality. But analog photagraphy was expencive in those hard old times and I did not focus too much on Duck Pictures at the beginning. Main task was to gather as many countries (not places in countries) as possible, travelling has been some kind of trophy hunting ever since. Since the world has been thouroughly explored and photographed by tourists of all kinds I decided to focus on a new subject, Travelling Rubber Ducks world wide and I added a page on my Homepage for my Luck Duck Sheila at the end of the 1990’ties. I mention this, because at that time I think nobody did something like that.

Not even those darn travelling bears which seem to be known much wider than the Ducks. (happended to me several times that people caught me taking pictures said: aaah, like the travelling bears) !!! But the links no longer work, so I presume they gave up recently and understood they are no comparison with the Rubber Ducks.

~~But~~ And there is a Happy Rubber Duck Day

About 4 (2016) years ago I came across the site travellingducks.com, Blogging platform with many really amazing pictures from all over the world which was much more comfortable than my own site. So I made myselve at home there and I started blogging there.

Ego blogito, ergo sum. (freely adapted from René Descartes)

Unfortunately the site is no longer online since about June 2017 and I don’t know what happened. So I decided to make a brand new start with a new homepage with wordpress. And I discovered a whole new world of Rubberduck related informations. The Duck Business round the world is booming, I see them everywhere now, even in big News Shows and election campains and I learned that the the words „big yellow duck“ was censored in China by the Big Firewall. The Ducks made big Impact in Arts, Technologie, Ocean Pollution, trade, most serious TV News magazines and even in Reinsurance Business. Sad things happened too, like Duck Andrik falling of the Chinese wall, r.i.p. or Duck Ulrich ducking in Vietnam as he again had to hide from the police. Or flukes like comrade Erik from Norway whom I never met, losing a duck in Berlin and me getting a picture of it by pure chance from a friend travelling there. Ducks now are everywhere I placed a order just yesterday and I have a suspicion that the Ducks are trying to take over the world.

My first Duck Pictures of Luck Duck Sheila steem from 1985 when I was in the USA for the first time. I continue working on one special big blog „Wittelsbacher Castles and Memorials“, the Wittelsbacher who are a old European Dynastie which started in Bavaria (maybe even in Troy) and which produced 6 bavarian kings, two german emperors(and kings), one german king and not to forget about King Otto I. of Greece, 5 Swedish kings, one of them also Norwegian and Danish king. And maybe even (as the Jakobits say) actual king Francis II. of England, Scottland, Ireland and France with family links to many other nobals and royals. Unfortunately the blog ist too big now and I can’t edit it any longer. I started consierding to split it too late.

And I am fascinated about how linked the world is and on how history, extremism and gossip repeats. During my research I had to drink a lot of beer for historic reasons and eat a lot of „Schwarzwälder Kirsch“ black forest cake.

I of course have to thank friends for supporting my projects and providing pictures or actual news about Duck Actions round the world.

Sheila of course still is my number 1, but my Duck Family has grown significantly in the past years as some locations and actual events need to feature special stars. I hope you enjoy to read this unimportant texts, like the pictures and find the inspiration to dig deeper into some of the subjects to think about it. And don’t forget to smell the flowers along you way. So far this blog is not open for guest writers or comments, I have to get more familiar with the technical and legal inflictions first.

A[nother] Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities [, Nature] and the Marvels of Traveling (

Freely adapted from Ibn Battuta

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Sheila	Luck Duck Sheila
Marianne Michael	singer, Duo Marianne und Michael singer, Duo Marianne und Michael
Roger Clarence Over	Flight Captain
Patrick Madduck	Sportsman, NFL, Most Valuable Duck MVD
DuckDiDu DuckDuDi	1. Assistant TARF Inspector (right) (has a problem with alcohol) 2. Assistant TARF Inspector
Luggi	maybe royal, maybe a Little mad
Clemens August	Cologne
Bärbelchen	Cologne
Sepp	Listenführer
Ronald D. (Dump)	Self nominatet Nr. 1
David	Rescue swimmer
Ulrich	lost in Vietnam
Dieter	Brother of Ulrich
Andrik	Fell of the Chinese Wall R.I.P.	RIP
Marie Sophie Wittelsbach	Hero of Gaeta
Adi (Adolf)	sport shoe designer
Rudolph (Rudi) R.	reindeer
Frank	Frankenfurter Transvestite
Byron	SPD, Brioni suit
Johann	flexible, well dressed,envoy
Jogi	soccer fan, CEO IFOMGNST
Jimmy	Gitarist
Atlas	something blue
Marilyn	singing birthday song
Lilli	fairy
Heinz	mass tourist
Heintje	deck-Hand
Sissi	member of the upper ruling class
Franzl	member of the upper ruling class
Wolferl	musician, Composer
Jamila ??, yes Jamila	refugee, name and origin now confirmed; no longer stuck in Dublin Proceedings, now integrated in Germany
Rock Duck	cultural ambassador
Archy	love, amore
Peter	referee
Max Emanuel	the blue duckling
Zenzi	waitress
Auguste Amalie Ludovika	aristocratic, with Connections
Karl Marks	searching for good beer
Jack Blackbird	Pirate
Russell	petty officer first class, likes women on the boat
Franc T.	police officer
Dave	Paranoid
The Ducktor	doctor, assessor
Jo	recovery diver
Christa	Orphan found in the Christal world
Joyce	Joint venture, Duck weed fan
Klaus and Crista	Retired doctors of the Schwarzwaldklinik; with pinnacle of German engineering; health concerned, no Blackforest Cake
Kaasantra	Beach dweller
Ludwig I	resigned top ranking drake, hard of hearing, womenizer
Ludwig II	want to be Swan Knight
Camillo	leader of the procession, spiritual guide
Nibbles	Our Baby

Guests: Guests:	Jörg Alexander Luigi, poor cheated waiter Sylvia, stewardess
Nina	unicorn, right
Bombasto	wrestler, Teuton	s. Nina, first Duck to the left
Austrian swarm

Stuffed toys:
Ted	TARF Inspector, Special advisor
Eddi the Rat The Little Mole	Whistleblower astronaut, spy, mole