According to memories of the author’s father, the saddlers were taking journeys during winter seasons - so called stery. During these journeys, they were seeing farmers in villages offering them to repair their agricultural tools directly on site. The journey usually took a week. The participants thereof often liked to remember them retroactively. The text brings a memory of one of the apprentices regarding livelihood conditions prevailing in the course of a journey to the German borderland. and Autorka je dopisovatelkou ČNS
The distribution of F-actin in the monogenean Entobdella soleae (van Beneden et Hesse, 1864) Johnston, 1929 (Platyhelminthes: Capsalidae) was revealed by staining paraformaldehyde-fixed specimens with FITC-labelled phalloidin. On the ventral surface on the left side of the body, just posterior to the pharynx, a concentrically arranged array of fluorescent fibres was observed, following a circular path around the tiny ventral opening of the vagina. It is assumed that this asymmetrically placed array of actin fibres is contractile and the possible role of these fibres in the assimilation of sperm from an attached spermatophore into the vagina is discussed.