A Reminder

 

My dear Bro organized this very last holiday with our Mom 11 years ago.

Island Rügen (former East Germany), Sellin.

I think Mom had some happy days with us.

Darn cancer, you.

I like that Facebook reminds you of things "long" ago but sometimes it kicks you in the butt with it. Try not to cry.

Is my Baby-Brother so much taller than me or do I stand in a hole?

T STands For ProjecT

 

 With this yummy drink from a restaurant (in a jam-glass) I join Elizabeth´s T.

 

The journal:

 

Monday: Uneventful, cold. Wander-flowers and Limpy came to my workplace that has no work... 

 

 

Laundry, Walking Pad with Warehouse 13 and later Young Sheldon. This I like - the adult version I cannot stand....

Tuesday: Nearly end of April. Went early to get Ingo bananas - cars were frozen. April, hello?! Snow in November and ice in April?

 

Found a Dandelion and...

 

(See Friday for that)
 

What I also like... I strive (the mean word is nerd) - so I read our CEO#1´s article. He is Dr. Ing. but just gives his name. Cool.

When you know you are good and people know you... just give your name. I wait till it´s just his first name ;-)

Walking Pad & Warehouse 13.

Wednesday: Started great. "opinion poll" from the E.C.O. group: "We care about you" - Sounds great.

fK called, informed me she´ll call our boss, boss called me... oh, boy. 

I - not via e-mail!!! - offered "short-time work" - she did not want to hear ANY of that!!!! "We will manage!!!! We WILL find something!!!!"

Did I ever mention I love ESE?

I might go ten steps backwards and perhaps work as tester again, other a maybe-project will be on. "Soon".

Have you ever cooked something yourself and marveled, "hmmm, this was SO yummy"? And then you know you did not write down how exactly you did it... My Pan-Pizza saved my week a bit.

Walking Pad & Warehouse 13.

 

Thursday: I went to bed in my thick jumper at night cause I was cold and dreamed I was in Perth, hence. Ingo chose a wrong "way" in my dream and we could not get off of the "thing" and there were LOUD Germans. Was I glad when my phone woke me!

Admin mT called and we.. well, you know, problem solved and then... private stuff 😉

Longer chat with fK and later Ingo brought home Max & Moritz (chicken).

Walking Pad & Warehouse 13.

Friday: Project on the way, yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.... I understood less than half, but ... and I will have to tell my Brother again: I get it because my English is "C2", that is near to "mother tongue". And because I am "meticulously" - try not to laugh at that. Actually it´s "Erbsenzähler" - Peas-counter...

I am sooooooooooo relieved - now I "only" have to show I can do the job aka start at zero again.

It will be Deutsche Bahn, our Mom.

Had lunch with my friend fK, very yummy and great company, maybe we repeat this next Friday, too, as last Friday. And, yes, Ingo, we went to Fräulein Wunder (Miss Wonder). We shared an omelette and bread and I was full to the brim!

So, munch-wise: Eierlei!

 

A German word-game.

Ei > egg.  Plural: Eier, eggs.

Einerlei > no matter. Eierlei... YUM FUN.

We had Omelette with Chester cheese &  cooked ham, 2 slices of bread, butter  - soooo yummy and more than enough! Even the bread was yummy (fK had to help with the rest cause it was too much and, like me, she hates food being wasted - and, to those who wonder I stress East Germany often... I bit into the bread (not fork and knife) and she just ate it up. East Germans do that. We also shared our drinks - we are both still alive and healthy - West Germans use straws etc - in Tuscany our East German bus driver offered me his bathing pants!).

I also said to my friend, "my, that waiter is a kid!!! Is he allowed to work?!".

Her: "That´s a young man. Over 20, I suppose".

Officially: I am old. (She has kids she can estimate better).

A dog came in, I got SCARED.

She took my hands to calm me down - must´ve been some sight (worked). 

The dog was RIGHT BEHIND ME!

Weekend: Saturday: Our loo is supersmall and has no window. If you just go pee we leave the door open and the light out ... for "more" - door closed and light on cause ventilation thankfully comes with that.

Ingo ripped the door open and turned off the light!!!

I said... "HEY!!!" - "Sorry", closed the door. Sat there in pitch-black dark!!! "LIGHT!!!!".

LOL, what a start to the day!

Other, uneventful but GRIMM.

Sunday: GRIMM. Löwenzahn, Die Maus, kid´s fairy tale, GRIMM.

SO nervous about the brain scan and new project, puuuuhhhhh.

Henry 🦁

 

 

P.S. YES. At 07:00 a.m. TODAY I have a meeting due to the new project ... as in ... I  got it!!!!

And I have another short history lesson, suiting our T-Day here, too.

The Darkest Trends Of The Victorian Era#5

For part #1 with explanation see here. 

"Holy water

There's a reason why the English love their beer so much: Their water wasn't drinkable (at least for many years). Clean and unpolluted water was hard to come by, and beer was considered the safer alternative, even for pregnant women and children. Even the children enjoyed a cup of warm, frothy beer after a hard day's work in the mines. What a time we lived in!

Beer was considered a safer alternative to water, as the water was boiled during brewing and hops were added, which killed the bacteria and made the beer drinkable. The low-alcohol "small beer" was mainly drunk by children who worked long hours in labor-intensive jobs such as mining. It provided them with liquid and some nourishment at a time when clean water was in short supply."

With that: Happy T-Day! Cheers! And... I have tap-water, just like that. Clean and safe.

And as a child I was PLAYING, not working - aren´t we spoiled?

@ Hillarys#1

 

 

This mural was taken at Hillary´s Boat Harbour this March.

See Saturday´s post, if you like ;-)

Yes, they are big birds, one chased me in Monkey Mia in 1995! 

 

The dolphins were not fed every day (they said).

It was special, though!

Back to the mural, huh?

I swam near one day, but the kids were too wild!  Or me too old...

Either way, despite Ingo running (walking fast) - the artist is Peter Ryan.

 

This is for Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 

Henry's 🦁  alter Perth-ego,the Black Swan 🐣:

 

 

To a good new week. Brain scan and hopefully new project here (Deutsche Bahn, > bringing in real money).

Oh, and I have another short, alien history-bite here.

 

The Darkest Trends Of The Victorian Era#4

 

For part #1 with explanation see here. 

"The Victorians and aliens

The Victorian era was a time of crazy inventions and out-of-this-world discoveries. In fact, even then they firmly believed that there simply had to be life on Mars. Thanks to the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, their beliefs were supported when he claimed to have seen artificial waterways on Mars through his telescope. 

These channels were supposedly signs of intelligent life and advanced systems created by aliens for travel or trade. The Victorians believed this and many made rather large contributions to mad science causes that claimed to make contact with aliens. In 1886 the first car was built, so you could say they were pretty close."

And today? We still waste money to try to get there instead of using it to fight cancer, for example... or... save this world...

Need To Go?

 

Now the promised loos... We were lucky when we found loos on our travels throughout Australia and no - this is no ad for Red Nomad, we had virtual contact due to both our Mums dying, but I never met her in person.

 

Usually one took left, the other right, we gathered paper and threw it in the next bin we found - what else to do - start a bush fire by burning the paper??? (we tried that, boy, I can run real fast in emergency!!!)

 

 We never did. 

As my Mum used to say, "God is with the dumb, the real dumb ones he helps." - 

Never a spider or snake or....

 

 I once was very, very afraid in a public loo. 

The loos had no doors, and I was taking a shower.... "naturally" naked.

A drunk woman came in - I yelled for Ingo...  she let go of me.

 

OTHER: ALL loos were clean and a great alternative to nature only! 

 

 "Here lies the last person caught stealing toilet paper. R.I.P."

Who´d guessed with COVID so many years later this was not a joke anymore...

 

 

 

... and Forrest Gump in 1995!

More on Wednesday...

And, peeps... always check out loos and take your cam - I found many a cool one!

Some restaurants/bars etc really get creative concerning our needs!

Here... HERE, Fishy!!!!

 

OK, wait till the end, stop searching, OK?

We´re back at Caversham Wildlife Park.... Join me - and Sami, who took me there, if you like...

 

 

The big fella is the male, of course, but don´t you think the female cannot stand up?! HA!

Even if.... (not a "gentleman")...

 

Wings are out already, dude!!!!

 

The fish to the right, hmmmm, the carer tried a couple of times, but neither wanted it.

I wonder. Sick, that fish, too old?

This is for ....

 

 

Eileen :-)

Henry's 🦁  alter Perth-ego,the Black Swan 🐣:

 

 

"I hid behind boat from first pic!"

And here is another history-lesson, if you are interested ....

The Darkest Trends Of The Victorian Era#3

As you maybe know I share some history-info. For the beginning read  here.

 

The decency boards

"While certain fashions were quite daring at the time, modesty was the order of the day - especially for women. Exposing bare skin was strictly taboo and this rule even applied to the most succulent part of a woman's body - the ankle. To curb any and all of these monstrous transgressions of fashion, Victorian society invented the decency board. 

 

These boards were propped or nailed to the floor to ensure that a woman's ankles were not exposed when she sat down. Heaven forbid a gentleman caught a glimpse of that voluptuous little bone. The whole tea room would be horrified and there would be hot tea everywhere."

 

I read about a German woman who fell in love with a man from Afghanistan - she went with him. She wore the clothes required. Wind blew her dress up - her ankle was seen. Her foot was cut off. She made it back to Germany to write the book... as warning.

Sad, huh.

Dark era... in some countries still today. Respect and freedom for women but a dream...

 

 

 

 

 

FFO, Smiles And ... Events...

As often, or now and then, a fellow blogger triggers my mind - this time it was Jeanie with this post on a tornado and the treasures she found in the cellar, seeking safety! Events in our lives on a big scale!  And since you see our faces I join the soon Birthday girl, Nicole´s FFO.

Maybe this "counts":

I was a very, very shy kid and the kindy-lady thought it might help me to play the princess in a  play - I did only because the prince to be was my friend :-) He said, "we can do that!" - sadly I lost contact. And no, we never kissed.

I just share what my comment was and maybe - if you haven´t commented at Jeanie´s already - or even if - share with me?

I said (and asked and got the OK that I may share):

 

"Tornado-warning sounds SO SCARY!
When we were in Darwin, Australia, we went to the NT museum - there was a warning, a dark room and you could hear cyclone Tracy (Christmas 1974) - horrible.
9/11 I was in the office in the VW plant in Wolfsburg. CNN only had the homepage, colleagues who had loved ones in New York tried to phone them - all were OK, luckily.
Ingo was at work - the shop sold TVs and the news were on. Customers thought it´s a movie.
I think world-wide everyone knows where we were when the tragedy, the weirdness happened...
And we all were excited about Obama, yippeee - I am still sad he is not president anymore (we had 16 darn years of "chancellor" Merkel).
Kennedy I only know about from documentaries. So sad.
Moon: Ingo was 4 years old, his parents dragged him out of bed to watch on TV and he didn´t understand why he had to watch a comic in the middle of the night ;-)...

Luckily we have no tornado-warnings (yet). Our cellar is very, very small - and full to the brim.
You should frame all the articles and hang on a wall! Precious!"

Can you join Jeanie, do you have articles from "back then"?

If so, please share!!!

This post of her was so super-interesting!!!

 

Smiles.... for Annie... rather hard this workless week, other that colleagues constantly take care of me. 

 

And some funnies, of course!

 (no, I never did drugs)

Henry 🦁

 

 Have an interesting, fun Friday!

Off to a brain MRI  soon. Am a bit afraid. Bet it will be OK. (Which would mean hospital, but - SMILE!)

P.S. Not so funny: The lady at the doc said "Friday", 29th, my brain kept the phonetic - it is MONDAY - BUT - YIPPEEEEEEEEEE - seems I have a work-project!!!! We had a meeting today and it´s looking good!