Always Good

 

"Always good" ... to have a firefighter at home.

My teamlead says the craziest things "always" happen to me.

She is correct.

Ingo lighted the small BBQ and then I saw... that thing is on fire!!! 

Fireman Ingo yelled, get the big gloves!

I ran, he put the small BBQ into the bigger one, problem solved.

Teamwork, I saw, he did.

Sadly no space for my food, but what the heck, I was not really hungry. It was "4 1".

But I had a great idea...

Ingo had a (sadly not Cuban) cigar and we shared a sip of 7 year old Cuban rum.

Ahhh, those days, when the coffee in Cuba had a note of rum.

And instead of hopping to stupid LOUD MUSIC we watched The Discovery Channel after wonderful days in Varadero in our room (we don´t get that channel here in Germany), where we used one of the two beds and the "maid" thought we were newly weds, hahaha.

You can be in love after many years still and use ONE bed.

Here in Braunschweig we still have my Brother´s youth-bed.

Just throwing this pic in...

I don´t know what Kaba really is, something from the early 70´s and hence perfect for Ingo who is a bit older than me and remembers those times much better (I never had a sweet tooth, I asked for chips at age 4...).

That other thing is bread!!!

I tried one "chunk" cause I had just a very small lunch, remembered to take a pic after I had one quarter already.

One is Bresso, a cheese Ingo brought, we haven´t had in ages! Ahhh, la vie!

The other 2 are chicken breast with horse radish.

Was too much, 2 still sit in the fridge.

Evening:

 

And then grilled cheese.

There is no life without cheese, right, that was the dessert of the day (for me). 

 

Today likely rain and thunder instead of BBQ.

Good. No need to water the flowers and the "bread" is used. (I covered the coal-BBQ, of course) .

 

Henry 🦁

 

 

Yes, Babies, but there will be others (after all we have a firefighter for in case... reckon I need to buy a back-up BBQ...!!!! It was hilarious, that thing... oh, boy.

Will I tell my teamlead the story?

After all she complained she misses me when I don´t call...

 

Do weird things happen to you, also? Please share!!! Can not only be me... Please.

Our balcony-floor is made of wood-panels, a fire would be not funny, really... 

Addendum, just to show you the panic: I had to put the gloves on his hands.... Left, right, huh???? I sure will not qualify as firefighter, I PANIC.

And certainly the little "legs" of the small, broken, on fire-BBQ had their own life still.

It was like a bad comedy.... If the floor was not wooden I might´ve laughed....

 

 

Not Afraid! Or... Are We?

This (Scare-)crow sure was not afraid of me.

It stoically made it´s way...

Too funny.

 

Crows are really clever, I love those birds.

 

 A city-bird who also was not really afraid of my presence!

 

This made me a little sad.

 

 I was sitting on a bench at "the castle" or palace, having half a burger.

Funny: When you ride the tram most stations are announced in German and English.

But this one. The machine just screams "SCHLOSS".

 

Formerly Brunswick Palace. 

Building started 1718, it burned down in 1830, second version 1841 - after raids in WWII it was torn down in 1960 and our city had a wonderful park instead.
At daytime. At night it was more of a drug-place.
2004 a mini majority decided to tear down the whole park and replace it with a fake palace.
Obviously the Braunschweig tram-owner loved the park as much as we did...

SCHLOSS - you don´t speak German, well, you´re lost.

Anyhows, this is not the only thing that made me sad.

People do litter a lot there and this raven picked up after them.

This made me really sad.

He/she didn´t do anything with the ciggy-rests, the plastic etc, it just got them off the place.

Sure not building a nest with this.

A bird cleans up after humans.

One wants to cry.

Critters are more clever and with this I join

Eileen.

Henry 🦁

 

 Dumb humans clean up after stupid humans once a year, too, they call it "Braunschweiger Stadtputz".

We never join. It just suggests, yipps, leave your rubbish where you are and walk on.

Makes me sad and... afraid of how people "tick".

I admit, there are not enough publish rubbish bins (or toilets for that matter), but if I manage to take my rubbish to the next container, why can´t everybody, too???

 

FFO And Summery Smiles

 

I may have posted this pic before, but with our silly faces from ca 1997 I join Nicole´s FFO as Erika inspired me with her holiday-post on Greece a lot with her great art!

 

I just finished train #1 for Oslo and am quite knackered, so no sketching  from my side.

Hippo is still naked... sorry, Nicole...

 

But let me show you what we saw in "decade gone by"...

 

 

No idea how it is like today, back then... - no taxes when your house is not finished but you can live in it.

That was, as said, ca 1997. You would not find a difference in how Ingo looks like today.

I am pretty sure the trousers are other ones but look is the same, LOL - goes for the shoes, too.

We are no "influencers" or "hip" persons. Style found (must be practical), style stays.

My hair... the same since... 1995?

All I did buy: 70´s style clothes. Fashion, huh?

Back to Greece (where my sweet doc is from, too, he´s really more like a little Brother)...

 

A "blue" island!

Quite a journey to get there... 90% of the people puked their souls out.

But!!!! It was worth it (one woman puked into her hands, I´ll never forget that).

I was on a boat before I could really walk so waves and a wild boat-ride don´t bother me.

Two uncles who were marine engineers says it all, huh.

 

 

... no room or such needed...

Did I give you a summery smile for Annie´s?

Here are some funnies to laugh, cause that is tradition, correct?

Henry 🦁 was not in my life yet really back in 1997... I was still studying in Hildesheim.

 

 

Biggest Summer-Smile

 

Mailman Ingo brought in happy mail!!!

From dear Kathy 🥰 

Just seeing the envelope made me smile big cause it reminded me of when I sat in a CAT - 

 

"The Perth Central Area Transit (Perth CAT) system, or simply CAT, consists of five bus routes in the centre of Perth and three bus routes in Joondalup."

 

(Wiki is not up to date, in Freo you find CATs, too, as in Cottesloe. Just bragging a bit.

 And a big P.S. from Ingo: The CAT is for free! I always forget to mention this...)

- when a big dragon-fly popped up behind my back! I am a jumpy person...

But let´s look inside, OK?

 

So cute!

I LOVE summer and flowers and I am so spoiled!

As I am that lucky to work from home usually Ingo empties the mailbox, hence I call him the mailman.

It´s a give and take, as I work from home I open the door for all the parcels Ingo orders.

This was not all:

This threw me back to 1995! Usually on our journey through Australia we slept in the car, but in  Bowling Green Bay NP we put up our tent!

 

 

Ingo sure had an eye on this mate!

There is a gas-lamp right beside!

 Our tent was intact but if it ever ripped I´d sewed in a heart, too - so cute!!! (scroll up maybe).

 

Kathy, thank you for these memories! 

 

 LOL, at first I thought that is toilet paper.

Another throw back to 1995! 

Fraser Island.

 

 It was too cold for a swim in Lake McKencie....

There were signs everywhere to not let things outside cause...

"The dingo is a medium-sized canine that possesses a lean, hardy body adapted for speed, agility, and stamina."

These guys - wild animals after all -  play with EVERYTHING and one young couple left toilet paper outside. 12 rolls or such... it was EVERYWHERE, too funny. They were so embarrassed I could not decide if to laugh or not. I laughed. I mean, really, there were enough signs!

On we go:

Ahhh, just yesterday I sat on the balcony cause it was warm enough for that  - in fact I took Ingo´s black chair and had to let it cool down first!

Dear Kathy, your mail brought summer - I thank you big, hugs to you and the lake!

Henry 🦁

 

.... scroll up to my mate, the Dingo 😁

 

 

 

Let´s Party With A Twist

 

Yipps, I take you to The Belgian in Perth again.

 

 I was too young to disco, but I sure saw it on TV. John Travolta & Co!

 

 If we lived in Perth we sure would party!

Maybe we would even learn to dance...

 

This is for Tom´s Signs2.

 

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

 

 Bet swans party, too! To the 1970´s!!!

Though... wasn´t the twist in the 1950´s?

 

 

 

Both hare great, huh?

 

T STands For TimeRuns

 

With this yummy juice I try to pretend it´s summer and join Elizabeth´s T 😀

The journal:

 

 

Monday: Work and bit of training.

Tuesday: Colleagues overload!! LOL. Cooking-tips from admin mT - he invited me to cook in his kitchen, now does that make me a pupil, I guess so!!! fK was there, too, we had Insight-inside with the bosses. What a day. All from home via teams.

Training and Sleepy Hollow. 

Saw Benjamin Franklin naked. And did he really create his own alphabet? 

Ingo "repaired" my TV - yippeeeee. Well, we have to share... but The Simpsons are guaranteed!

Wednesday: This week RUNS. It´s a grey-ish weather-work(-out)-blur.

See, that is why I keep this journal, other I would think... what or where went Wednesday - but every day is a pressie and I don´t want to forget any one. Just....

Where the heck is summer???

At least yummy food again, Pizza for lunch and dinner was cheese toasties with the GourmetMaxx.

Glad I didn´t give that away after all!

 

 

Thursday: Shortly after 05 a.m. there is a blue sky and seems some yellow ball came out - summer?

And I got my Max-dose :-)

Must be his grumpy day, usually he looks like an angel.

I am invited to cuddle - but... what if he just does not like me???

He is older than the kid he is stomping upon....

Asked mC a work-related question via teams-chat - BOOM. On the phone. Private stuff mostly.

But then!!!

When in the office and you make a cuppa tea... you talk, too, right? No bad feelings, hence.

Socializing it´s called and mC promised to join the next party (now I HAVE to go, too).

 

Friday: mC called and gave me abbreviations I´d asked for :-)

Asked fL how she´s doing and... she´d just thought of me, we chatted, as did fK. 

mC now has my WhatsApp and sent me pics (he is Ingo´s age), we have fun here - I did work, too!!!

Ingo brought Namaste for lunch - yum.

WONDERFUL thunder, rain and even lightning.

Scary news: Germany is not able to send "Schwerstkriminelle" - serious criminals - back to their countries cause it´s too dangerous there. What???

 

Weekend: Saturday: Gave Ingo the shopping list. He added wonderful flowers - just like that, no "reason" 🥰

 

Made up my mind for tofu and broccoli for next week and had to go myself.

Two fully "veiled" women in black with niqab with very modern, expensive kids-trolleys and one with "but a scarf" and wide clothes.

Sometimes I wonder... do I life in Afghanistan or Germany?

If you live in another country live by their rules, I would wish. ARE that women? You cannot even tell. Scary. Sad.

Had Namaste with egg.. I am the house-pig, I eat all the rests ;-)

And just for the record... Indian, Spanish... all who live here but (most) Muslims adapt. Clothes- and languages-wise. Same in your country?

I was in Egypt - I lived by their rules. 

 

Sunday: Fairy tale:  Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten by Brother´s Grimm - it´s about friendship, freedom, despite being old - better old than dead - who is my FIL in this tale, he tells me this every time, old or dead. 

One of my fav fairy tales and you get the best Labskaus in Bremen, too.

Ingo and I went with my Dad there... Everybody - we were in a group of "star lovers" -  said YUCK and then they all wanted a taste of my Labskaus, I left "hungry" and happy.

Munchy though:

And....

 

 Only "allowed" or recommended when stupid soccer is here.

 
Henry 🦁

 

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