T This Turbulent Week

... for Elizabeth´s T! 

The journal:

 

Monday:  Bro´s Birthday!!!

06:45 a.m. - BOOM - BOOM - BOOM. Yes. Good morning up there.

My parents did own the house we lived in. Their shop was underneath. At NO time was I allowed to stomp. 

fK called - Thursday meeting with teamlead. 

 

 

Tuesday: To REWE, main ring road. Huge sound. I turn around. A plane, left wing - off flies in my direction and crashes. Just a short look - I saw every detail and yelled RUN!!!! Then I was in "Hasenwinkel" where the main fire station is, to get help.

Moment later I was in my old hometown and ran up to my kid´s room. Saw Mom - I KNEW in that dream she had passed away in 2011.

She said, "you grow old fast if you keep dreaming such stuff", and laughed. "Come with me."

Store full of people and Mom of course gave a friendly "good morning", so did I and tried to sneak away. Mom shouted something at me.

And woke up. 

I.Am.Done.With-Those.Dreams. 

And yes. We do have an airport, a research airport. And a second one.

 

Wednesday: Went to REWE. "Real" cash-out, young man in front of me, everything placed ready, then his hand went up again, I watched - I mean.... there was a movement, right? He reached for the condoms, saw me and took... glasses-wipes. He wore no glasses. 

Try not to laugh!

And yes. At the cash-out you find sweets, condoms and schnapps. Go figure. 

 

 

Thursday: Grey, grey day. Took red polka-dot-Gurri and burning red sneakers and went to ESE for a meetup - they want me back, definitely. After lunch we stood in front of the building and... My luck. CEO#1 came by.

When he was new we had a winter BBQ on the balcony, he was working the grill and it started to rain.

Why ever I was the only one with a brolly. 

So, with Gurri I went outside and gave him said brolly. Violet with.... polka-dots. 

Well, fK said it´s good he likely remembered me - so YAY Gurri! Also fE said, oh, look, our lucky girl (German Glückspilz from red mushroom with white dots, the death cap mushroom). 

Sweet: Not only Ingo, also Bro asked how it went. 

 

  

Friday: Yes. Braunschweig is a big city. But tonight it seems everyone from Wolfsburg to Salzgitter was here as well to see or watch and listen to the Festival of Lights.

PACKED!!!!

And everybody let me film (in case you don´t know, I´m small). 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Two "ghosts", likely again with Mommy and Daddy - rang the bell. 

We didn´t open. 

When I was a kid the whole neigborhood, we went out without adults for Martinstag. We sang a song and got sweets  or, at Magneto, some magnet-based toys. Likely so we stop and go away quickly, LOL.

These days. Mommys (!!!) sell mulled wine and cookies and St. Martin is there in a red coat riding a pony. 

 

Sunday: I got "Haxe" and Ingo put it all away afterards, did the dishes! He didn´t want a "thank you".

Theme-Day: 

 

 Munchy: 

 

 Henry 🦁 is still enjoying his Latte!

 

 

HEnry Is All "E" (?)

 

Mural sent to me - with permission to publish - by dear friend fK on Saturday morno.

(@ Sami... you mobilize people!) 

 

Looks like Henry supports E-Cars. 

Do you, too?

 

I had a project with a colleague at ESE:

Company Fortescue in WA planned - we had a contract already, which then was never signed - to transport iron ore from the mines near Tom Price all the way "down" to Port Headland via Licium Batteries, empty - the batteries...

 

By arrivial, their dream, those batteries are fully charged and after onloading the freight ready to go "green" back up to Tom Price.

 

First try for help: a famous company in GB, who said "no".

 

mM and I did research and I said: no.

 

Ingo and I saw such a train for real in WA in 1999:

3km long - we had to wait, they go at ca. 30km/h - took forever.

My concerns: 

 

a) the energy to start a heavy train like that!!!

b) Pilbara: HOT - HOT - HOT!

c) on iron rails: more HOT

d) heat and batteries, one goes kaaaa-booom and in no time the whole set explodes.

 

Yes. At that "speed" the staff can stop the train and run away. 

In the desert.

What if that happens in Port Headland??? 

 

No one wants to be responsible for that. In Perth I - too late this February - spotted the company, but what to do anyways?

 

 

Maybe our host´s Hubby, who also was into railway - has an idea?

 

Wish of Fortescue: At least one has to be willing to pop by in person once in a while.

ME!!! mM not, but ME! So YES!

How has Tom Price changed since 1999??? I´d land in Perth, visit our friends and... oh!!!

Nope.

We were too convincing, the technology is not "ripe" yet.

 

WHAT DO YOU THINK???? 

 

Photographer of this wonderful mural, fK, is at ESE with ALSTOM and hopefully I join ESE soon again, also thanks big to her.

It would be a project in... brrrrr ... Norway! An old German train, refurbished and back on track.

Have done this before - FUN! Interesting, engineering art!

Please.. wish me luck! 

 

This is for  Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 

Henry 🦁.. still thinking E-stuff over!

 

Next Sunday hopefully more from BS Energy - The City of Lights-project! 

 

And... Isn´t that a wonderful mural? 

  

 

Clapsticks, Anyone?

 

 

One more item we got in our "second home". For Nicole´s...

 

 

 

These are - as Wiki describes: "Clapsticks, also spelt clap sticks and also known as bilma, bimli, clappers, musicstick or just stick, are a traditional Australian Aboriginal instrument. They serve to maintain rhythm in voice chants, often as part of an Aboriginal ceremony."

 

They sound great, but we cannot "play" them, here is a detail:

 

 

That lizard is also called blue-tongued skink, as wiki explains here.

 

We met one:

  

 

Ingo stopped the car to get the guy off the road - I grabbed the cam...

 

Here is one from Wiki:

 

 Dude didn´t understand and thought it´s NOT FUNNY!!!, showing us the tongue!

 

I am horribly tired since days and hope I don´t come down with a flu or such so just this. 

I hope to show you the outcome from Friday next time! 

Now... listen and smile with Gillena:

 

 

And welcome November:

 

 

From Adelaide - thanks to River! - back home:

 

Hihi, see, if you like, post tomorrow!... And to Perth/Freo:

 

Henry 🦁

 

Happy Sunday! 

 

 

The Sweetest Sloth

 

And that´s of course for ...

 

Eileen!

And here is the slowest... for... oh, forget it, happy Halloween... Why do I buy... Ack! 

 

 

Better this!

Henry 🦁

 

FFO - Guess Who

 

This is a lille sketch for.... Nicole´s...

 

 

 

...and Gillena´s for fun (have a look!).

 

 ... or... are they?

 

 RIP, dear Tim, we miss you.

 

 This says:

No matter where I am - Braunschweig will always be my home.

And come darkness I plan to visit The Festival Of Lights - wish me luck for good weather and pics/videos.

 

Now to something.... Well, tomorrow it´s "Trick or Treat", right, so something SWEET!

 

 

 

Would you be that girl, too?

 

 This is Germany. Halloween is not yet with lille kids...

 

 

 

Henry 🦁

 

 For those who celebrate: Have a tricky... treaty one tomorrow!

 

My Childhood :-) - As Others!

 

Hmmm. Of course I never had such a fancy bike. 

But mine was orange, too. With "training wheels" - did you have those stupid things, too?

I fell hard without those later, bloody knees and elbows and no one cared. 

 

Yet, happy times. No one knew where you were, be home for dinner, was the only rule. 

Dinner was German bread and butter, cheese, maybe radish, gherkin, some "wurst".

 

Uck. Dad´s "Harzer Käse" - the bad smell!  

 

Help your Mom put the food off at least! Dad had a beer. We had nothing to drink - you? 

 

The first years the telly was there, later talks about my parent´s work, never about us.

 

Bedtime? Good-night. Don´t come out without a reason!!! 

Bro read endlessly to his Daughters before bedtime.

But Dad brought me flowers sometimes. To the bed. 

 

And the clothes! And haircuts!

 

 

As if I needed help ;-)

What was your fav time? And... hmmmm. actually my life was mostly... is! - my fav time.

And I am thankful! 

 

Henry 🦁...

 

... far away!

 

  

Yummy-Yum

Seen last week at Penny  - these guys were on holiday - in Bosporus?

Either way, when I saw it I thought, "hmmm... & MORE!"

And just yesterday saw an episode of Castle whilst hanging the laundry (yes, inside)..

Castle´s Mom invited all the peeps who were to learn English in class and exclaimed:

 

"THIS is AMERICAN food - enjoy!"

 

And what was on the table?

Guesses welcome and remember - a country of immigrants ;-)

 

We.Are.People. 

What would you do without Pizza?

Moussaka?

Labskaus?

Meat-PIE! (and such).

 

Who helped rebuild Germany after WWII?

Ouzo, someone? Paella? Döner (invented here, more or less, they say).

Schnitzel? Spaghetti.

 

Hungry yet? 

 

Some love Sushi.

Toast Hawaii. Grünkohl...  Should I go on? Lamb-ragout, Croissant... Ice cream! Hot Dog, Hamburger, Pommes Frites...

Thank you, Tom. Now I am hungry! 

 

This is for Tom´s Signs2.

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 ... in a colorful world! And if you care...