I really have to say: I
love my camera!
So small I can easily take it everywhere, and I do.
Today we went to the post-office round the corner and...
OH MY! How can anybody do this?!, I thought! Look!

Dunno how you call this? You can store stuff in it and sit on it.
You don´t believe me?
Look here:

Ages ago I saw it at Ingo´s place - and I loved it! Reminds me of happy, colorful childhood-days of the 70´s.
Ingo gave it to me.
It traveled to Hildesheim, where I studied. Went to my parents place when we went on our first big journey, back to Hildesheim, to my parent´s place, to this town and moved with me all the time.
And today, when I showed Ingo this poor, set out equivalent of my... "tub"? - I finally heard it´s story (he somehow assumed I knew... man, how?!).
It wasn´t bought from some place, as I thought.
It was produced in the factory where
Ingo´s Grandma worked!!!!
At
Schmalbach-Lubeca (German) - they made the first tins to conserve food here in Germany (did you know, btw, Henry E. Steinway, the famous
piano manufacturer comes also from my home-town (Seesen)?).
And guess what: Schmalbach-Lubeca was originally founded here in Braunschweig!
Ingo´s Grandma got this "furniture" for free - and many more items made of sheeting combined with color like trays and such.
I have a real treasure here! And someone threw his just away!
It´s a small world, no?My Mom just called and I told her the story. She said, oh yips! There is more!
Lubeca had another factory in Tornesch - this is the village my mother´s family fled to in WW II. "In the last street, near the train-barrier, they produced corrugated card board."
There is more, still.

They lived at a farmer´s place back then and my Mom was the one who repaired the farmer´s little moped from time to time. He was a rather fat man and the ball bearing needed replacement from time to time.
She was 12 back then and certainly had to "test" the moped after repair.
Now I understand why she didn´t freak out completedly when I took our
BMW 5 Series for a drive at age 14!!!
(Gets even more weird... The article on BMW says, "The BMW 5 Series is a mid-size / executive car manufactured by BMW since 1972". I was born in 72! Freaky, huh?!)
Labels: Braunschweig/Brunswick, family, just me, notable, the two of us