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ISW were in the Winterthurer Stadtanzeiger today! Woohoo!

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I've just taken a look at my updated-to-iOS6-iPad and it's perfectly true - Apple do seem to have 'stolen' the SBB clock! Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but as the Swiss have said, we don't mind you copying it but you'll have to pay!

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Look - a Kuh-R code.
(not my joke - blame Blick am Abend!)

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More news and another picture from the Winterthur fire I mentioned yesterday. Thanks to World Radio Switzerland for the report - 

Winterthur fire costs millions in damage

A fire in Winterthur’s historic old town early this morning caused millions of francs in damage. 

Spokesman Marcel Strebel from Zurich cantonal police said an old town home caught fire at about 2:30 a.m.

The fire department responded three minutes later but the blaze had already spread to two other homes. 

No one was injured, and the cause of the fire is unknown.

The town’s old quarter has buildings dating from the 17th century, but it doesn’t yet appear those burned this morning were listed in the historic buildings register.

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This is a very interesting book I purchased last week. Very helpful as it has three sections allowing me to look up words in English, German or Swiss German, depending on which I happen to know!
Not all the words are used around here - I tried some out on my friend Monika and she said she used different words for some of the ones I pointed out. That's the thing with Swiss German - there are lots of different ways of saying things depending on where you are!

Sadly my Büechli doesn't tell me the word in Swiss German for an earthquake but in German it's ein Erdbeben. As I live in Winterthur I wasn't scared - verängstigt or duuch - because das Hause wackelte nur ein wenig - the house only wobbled a bit! In Swiss German my Büechli suggests giigaagälä or gnappä instead of wackeln.
Glad I wasn't in Zürich or Zug!