Merry Christmas! (I Cheated) & A Happy New Year

 Guess what I found?! After repair cause...

 

This is how mail arrives here. (This is our neighbours, but ours is the same... the postie just props it in like that or simply throws it on the stairs - I know they have little time, but then... nooo - soon a real bad one is to come, I nearly cried).

Well! Pic galore and I feel so bad - in Europe you can send lille pressies (I still have a Corinna II here waiting for code green for overseas). Europe.... I could´ve done more!

But guess how I SMILED! Upon mine, not the neighbour´s of course!

OK, turn.

 

The ceiling in my old home was like this!

 

 Yes. I had the Manneken Pis in my room. Don´t say a word...

The world in black and white, huh. SO FITTING THIS YEAR!

 

Giving AND receiving is wonderful, right?

 

My Big Niece said the phone call from me made her happy enough - some beautiful mind there, huh? (I asked her to find a pressie I can make, also for her Sister, though, cause,... Ella is right with the tag!).

 

I certainly will NOT eat the candy, it will find a proper place to make me smile (the tags found one already) - as Stevenson´s bookmark, I will not use it! 

It found it´s place by the cozy fireplace...

 

 

Hard times we live in and THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CARING!

All of you!

 

May I go on (haha, nooooo, I´m not done yet!).

Did you really think I wait till evening 24th??? Me???

Ella-Santa, you should know better! And then!!!

I finally found them!!!! (I likely might "loose them" again in these crazy times)

I was still living in Hildesheim, flat-sharing and watched this movie, later bought the book pre-amazon in Australia (where we much later visited Peter Pan in Queens Gardens in Perth, how crazy is life?):

 

Pic by Sami, thank you for this!

Have you lost yours now, too? See what happened:

Ella!

And I also got such a nice letter!

Yes to it all!

 

 

Not done yet...

Aren´t the hearts too cute? Are they sweets? They will land on an art project to save them!

And the signature!!! VERY COOL! 

 

This one is in use (cannot break like the elephants, right!
How can some say blogger-friends are not real friends???

 

 

 

 Henry 🦁 knows it´s getting better!

Thank you all (pic by Ingo) and a late Merry Christmas to you!

Isn´t this the best way to end a crappy 2020?

Let´s hope for a better 2021! Later we´ll light such a stick each for this to come true... somehow.

Signs At Home

 Well... sorry, guys, I´d choose Perth over Darwin again - THOUGH!!! - I have very fond, quirky, funny, outchy (mossies) memories of Darwin, also!

Yes, we saw a croc, too, and ran to the car. It was far away, but still scary!

We likely would be in Perth now.

An EMU it would be, and my cam took the correct decision:

As most we are stuck in the blurry dark.

Do these count as signs?

Sad signs?

This sure was an awful year, also with the fires and all the Koalas who lost their lives or were hurt so badly.

No. I did not buy any of these. Rather expensive.

PLUS!

People in Germany think "Fosters" is THE Australian beer, Aussies laugh now, that´s like Öttinger or Köpi in Germany, naaaa. Don´t. 

We once had to order wine cause they had but Köpi and buhhhhh. no.

Well.

As most of you we stay home, it´s so frustrating.

It is so frustrating.

Job??? Hahaha, try to get a proper JOB now. It is plain frustrating for all of us.

It´s destroying us. Thank you all for your kind words on this darn subject.

Henry 🦁..

 He tries to stay positive, as always:

High Five to 2021 (I don´t think so, but Henry HOPES for it, (his left one is actually two, some people are too dumb and I get no job...)).

This is for "Tom´s Signs 2".

 

 

Did I Deserve This?

 I lost my job.

My boss always found ways to keep us, we agreed to fewer money etc.

The new one saw: She (me) brought in external VW-money and does no more. 

BOOM, out.

And Ingo ..-. keeps telling me off for that and not getting a new job (docs/meds/ driving) involved.

I was SO looking forward to the holidays.

His boss is an assh... foot, too and ... Done? We? Us?

Henry is sad. Me, also.

Again. I´m a real person.

And today I am SO darn disappointed AGAIN of life, it hurts.

I´ll tell you about that foot another time... maybe.

So T STands For This Was ChrisTmas

 We got these at Bärenland and Ingo thinks they are too spicy.

Poor fellas.

So I took over as in... I tried. One arm here, a leg there, let´s check on another arm, huh?

Well. Too spicy for one, too sweet for the other, what a crappy life?!

Looks more like acupuncture - see how nice I am?

(It saved my life, acupuncture. I never believed in it but I´m free of migraine since 1999!)

This fella...

Food?

 

A bit "fishy", huh?

But certainly for Elizabeth and Bleubeard´s "T Stands For Tuesday" we need a drink, right?

When we go as healthy as fish we also have....

Buttermilk. Not that bad. (Brrrrr, LOL)

Henry 🦁? 

He gives over to his Sister, Brunonia, all in Christmassy light!

Pic by Ingo and yes. Those are these annoying e-scooters in the front.

Heck, people, don´t you have muscles no more?! They speed by like crazy, you cannot hear them and WHOSH.. Same in your place?!

Maybe I should chew an arm off... or a wheel.

WAS it Christmas? More to come...

Welcome

 Near Güldenstrasse in Braunschweig you find/found this, pic taken pre-Corinna...

 

Henry 🦁 likes to take part in Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 But from these days...

 

 

 What a very weird year this is.

Back And Forth And Finally Here

 

On November 14th...

No, before this I roamed the local stores, of course. I always try to help those here in town, but, nada, nothing, so I went to amazon.

My Brother teases me for buying DVDs, but what can you do (in Germany) if you wanna see something in the original and not weirdly translated to German with jokes and all being gone?

Amazon. proudly saying: German. NO, I don´t want this!

Finally I found it in the UK.

"WARNING", no German available. "Thank you".

Royal Mail sent it to...  Packstation via gls, but gls does not work with Packstation, so it went back to UK. How was I... oh, it´s a loooong story.

 

FINALLY!!!! Did you know the guys at amazon-chat are really nice and friendly and try to help? It worked!

December 23rd... tadaa!

 

 

Yes, no. I´m not Catholic or anything but who can resist Tom Selleck and the "beautiful" stories (they are in the end, always).

How can this man still be so sexy? Reckon it´s his (sorry, but I have to say this) "cute" nature.

So, forget about me, I have them ALL, and I waited a long time for this. And I´m off to watch!

Do you have  these difficulties, too?

How often did I see The Simpsons translated to German, yes, cool, funny, but then, when in Perth, see the same in the original and think... "WHAT?! That´s totally different!"

OK, I understand they have to have the text match the lips, but... really.

That´s why I want the original! (If not Italian/French etc, that I do not understand).

You?

What I´m really mad about: Technically it´s all possible. And we don´t get it!

Even at Netflix it´s all translated to German, if I "understood" that correctly (we don´t have it, hence).

Henry 🦁...

But now he can watch 9 seasons of Blue Bloods!

Christmas Crow

                           

 Henry 🦁... certainly!

Aren´t we all cats somehow?

Jingle Bells

                                

For non-Aussies here is the lyrics 🎅

And Henry 🦁...

We sang this in the Caravan Park in Madely/Perth!

Sing along! Hop in your ute, if you have one, and cheers! (OK, bad combo, do either or).

Thanks, "Corinna", we´re in Braunschweig.