Here is a somewhat less impressive, but nevertheless interesting image of my 'high-tech colander solarscope'...
Talking about colandar, a blog reader sent this feedback: "I like your colander picture. I was asking ... what the German for a colander was, but she couldn't think of a word. "Sieb" is too general. Do people actually say "Durchschlag" (found in dictionary)?"
My reply: "As it happens, I spoke to my brother on the phone a few minutes ago, and I too was struggling to find a German word for colander. Never heard of "Durchschlag" in this context. From my childhood I remember my mother and granny (bless her - see blog entry here) using "Seiher", which dict.cc describes as [österr., südd.: Sieb]. Mmmm."
I subsequently came across "Sieb" in a Spiegel "Fotostrecke".
Preliminary conclusion: There doesn't appear to be a 'proper'/dedicated German word for colander. Can this be right?
Anyway, more solar eclipse pics from Leicester here and here.
And thanks to translator colleague Philip Slotkin for sending a link to Adalbert Stifter's fascinating description of the 1842 eclipse (in German).
