To John

On TV news yesterday....

John was in Dresden on a train at night and witnessed a Syrian drugged man  going at a woman "with light skin". 

He helped, he tried to argue, but the man was on drugs. 

 

 "I saw Migration-problems in Germany´s cities".

 

A "man" with a knife stabbed him for helping. We have a problem with those weapons here.

Forbid those they take axes, not kidding. Or a machete....

 

 

"All I heard was screaming"

 

Understand why I was so afraid to go to Dortmund via train/bus without Ingo?

And I´ll have to do it again...

 

John says, "yes, there will be scars. I´ll carry them with pride."

Police visited him in hospital with flowers to say thank you.

 

Wanna visit Germany?

Think twice.

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel really did "some" job with "all refugees welcome".

No consequences for her.

I got insulted twice by Syrian men for not covering my head and once attacked physically.

 

It´s the same everywhere, I think...

 

Oh, boy, this struck me hard.

 

I left Ingo in hospital Joondalup/Perth 2019 and went "home" in the dark.

A drunk dude wanted to get at me on the train.

Two men got up and told him off.

Drunk dude left.

 

This is no political blog.  But I feel I need to share sometimes what´s going on in little Germany (or Australia)... Sorry for not always being funny...

The drunk dude on the train was Australian. Migration is not "that easy" as it is here...

 

And: Not all migrants are like that!!!!

Most post/mail-men now are migrants! Learning German and being polite! Adapting to our life-style! 

I know cause they all ring our bell!

Please do not get me wrong!

I wish we were all but people!!!!

 

Happy Sunday, to heroes!!!! Worldwide!

 

Monkey Love

 

This was pre 2008.

Ingo got me this hot water bottle-monkey as we had a weekend-relationship and by myself I was always cold. 

 

Ingo styled his hair back in the day, too.

 

And you sure spot two Henries 🦁 on his car. 

 

I lived in Braunschweig already and our first league American Football Team was called the "Braunschweig Lions", 12 times German Bowl, 6 times European Bowl Defender.

Now "New Yorker Lions".  

Some things change for the bad.. we went twice again. No fun anymore.

 

Anyways, these three animals go to....

 

 

 

Eileen.

 

Oh, that monkey (decide which one) helped me through many a cold night!

FFO From Last Decade - Smile!

 

The face with which I join  Nicole´s FFO and Gillena today is mine....

Maybe you read the post about what I have from my beloved 1970´s... I also found this pic.

This is my Brother´s old room where he´d "parked" some furniture from our childhood.

He wanted to give me these, but... we have a swing, so sadly no space.... 

Hence... I have a bitter sweet SMILE for Annie here.

 

 

I had to read Christmas-poems.... Dad mentioned me by name in these pics, instead for my Brother´s he wrote "Soon Santa Clause is coming". Oh, Dad, I miss you... so here is another face:

 

The "Bride" is a man also - that was a hip fun back in the day, it seems.

So... some fun?

That is why my cam is off...

 

I can work remote for ESE!!! I got a contract (ok, just for "the training", but if I don´t fail I might get my job back!) Monday: teams-meeting with my loved ALSTOM, this time Vienna.

 

HR looked so hungry upon the smell...

 

 And of course...

 

 

To getting lost twice in one day in my hometown.... Bobby????

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 Have a happy Friday! Off to  the beach soon! It´s called... grinning cat.

 

Matrjoschka #2

 

Yesterday: I sleep with ear protection, my right ear is near-to-deaf, I cannot find directions that are audible.

I am on holiday, forgot to switch off the phone - 5:00 a.m. ... phone wakes me up, just where???

Not at my night-table.

And why do I hear it through the closed door? With ear-protection!

But then my brain often wakes me at 04:00 a.m. to check if Ingo got up, so reckon it was my brain.

Off with the ear-protection and on  the search to the phone!

Not at my PC-table... it sounds like kitchen.

Not on the table, sounds like Microwave. WHAT?

OK, change of plan (it is 05:01 a.m. and I´m on holiday, it is dark).

 

> Get.Your.Glasses!!! (I am very short-sighted)

Didn´t help. I heard the ring but didn´t see it!

Like in Perth 2017(?) - Matrjoschka #1:

I put my red hat in a bag, Ingo put the bag in my backpack whilst I got two pints of beer.

When I wanted my red hat it was "gone".

Asked for my red hat. Two words: Red hat.

Barkeeper in panic: Lost Redhead!!!! 

I didn´t hear the difference and it was a bit of chaos.

 

I was asked about the size!!! I´d bought the hat in the kid´s section but luckily said, a bit pis#ed already, "well... MY size!!"

 

They thought I lost my child. My hair is reddish > Redhead. 

Really. IF I had a child and lost it in a bar (???) I would say boy/girl, size (OK we get there) what the kid is wearing. I would be precise.

> Tuesday went to ESE and put the phone in my backpack.

Ingo took the backpack for grocery shopping and put it where it belongs, beside the microwave.

Phone was still in there.

GAH.

Luckily I remembered I´d put it in there for... hahaha... in case I get lost.

Old people need fixed places, lesson learned!

On the other hand: brain needed to find the solution and it did.

Sö:Fixed places, other: Matrjoschka gets you!!!

 

 

... or half of her...

Hihihi.... "Sö" > typing-error from my side. East Germans from Saxony say "söööö".

Sweet memories of Tuscany. Our bus driver (and all) where from there.

It was an Educational trip and Grit was Ingo´s age, Jens mine. We had educational fun! 

Of course I bought that apron...

We are Germans, right. So, all the beer that was left Jens gave to us all... in that apron - it was hilarious. But...

 Henry 🦁

 

What a beginning of the day that was.

Hope I made you laugh...

I Hope I See Correct

 

Right around the corner, this sign.

Dunno if it´s a German saying, when you look through pink glasses all is well.

 

ATM I am waiting for fE to call me. fM did call.

fK (surprise) already called.

 

My decision is "final". I have a mail for mM to say very sorry, I´ll stay with ESE.

 

BOOM! 

 

I feel so sick cause sorry,

He´s a great man (not much taller than me but great!) and I say "no".

I feel so bad about it!

 

We are all but pixels. But we make a great picture together - right? 

And who knows with whom I end up.

Work-wise.

Other it is Ingo!!! 

This is for Tom´s Signs2.

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 

T This Tired, Crazy Week

 

This drink, with which I join Elizabeth, it asks you to indulge, to treat others.

I treated myself...

The journal:

Monday: FIL on Ingo´s nearly empty phone, I got the NEW number for "landline".

BIL. Same as their Mom, FIL´s Mom, INGO.... pancreas. Inflamed.

BIL´s new wife, nearly my age, highly pregnant.

FIL invited us to celebrate Ingo´s Birthday. In Emden. Let´s see. All too much.

Pancreas inflamed and a baby on the way?

I.Want.A.Boring.Life.

And really. Come to Braunschweig to celebrate!!!

Why are we supposed....  Braunschweig is a very beautiful city!

Tuesday: fK.... "my 'wife' is OK with you now, but our kids are not 😂 "Iris" here, "Iris" there, all the time."

I had no idea!

Ingo: ... same with her. "fK, fK, fK"....

Same in your life? 

 

Wednesday: O.   M   G.

Phone. 08:50. am - Think it´s fK. Pick up as usual with "Hi!".

Meep, ESE. Got a laugh. Will now always answer with my surname!!! Boy, glad fM laughed! (we never met) - OK, I reveal cause it´s such a beautiful name: Margarete!

Then fK  - then fE!!!! They all call me "meine Liebe" and I think they mean it.

Asked in April and due to "issues over there" get two responses only now. 

From two different companies - and lovely people I worked with at both - see my dilemma...

 

Thursday:  Tired.

I do the sketches for this journal on the weekend and saw a note for this day ... Nieces Birthday.

SHOOT!!!! WhatsApped her hence on Sunday, her answer: "It´s OK, even if late, thank you!"

She´s like me. 

Scary. Genes, huh. Her Dad/Bro´d make a big fuss again! 

She´s 15 now. An adult.

Hey, wait. I just held her in my arms, 5 days old, she slept and I adored her little fingers!!!

Friday: Tired.

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: They sit right here, called "LaFamme" a pill I am to take soon. No. Guess I won´t. fK had another... no. Thank you but likely no. Women over time went without - I can do that, too! Right?

Ingo feeds me with cold fruit to cool down.

On TV: Pizza!!! A docu.

Dreamed of Da Nico at night and a Ten Without Ham. (See  "Change Of Blog-Title? An Era Ends" - my dear Bro is in there, too...).

 

Nico retired 2024 and went back to Italy.

He always smiled big when my Brother, my Mom (!!!!!!), Ingo or me myself ordered one.

There was no "Ten (without ham)" anymore and the answer always was: 

"Can get cold, goes to Braunschweig, right?"

Can you imagine my face when my Mom!!!!! came to my home in Braunschweig with that?

I think I smiled BIG all day!

 

Sunday: Not kidding: TV: docu on Pizza. Different channel and docu, but... Pizza!!!! (Tried to order pizza on Thursday - they wanted ALL my data before showing the menu. No.).

Btw. fK said my sense of smell might change when I get off the pill and I might not like to smell Ingo anymore!!!!

Vanilla. Ingo smells of Vanilla. I like vanilla. Löwenzahn: On smelling. Life is creepy.

 Henry 🦁´s Wife

I feel shit#y but pampered! 

I am not alone in menopause and especially studies and job-sorrows!

When Ingo was so severly sick bloggy friends were there and helped - real hugs and I´d broken down, not able to help Ingo, hugs from far away help(ed).

 

 

Let´s Be Happy!

 

Mural found in my 2024 "Perth-stash".

Can´t remember where exactly that was but wish for this for sure!

Ingo and I being happy and the sun is shining.

This was a crap summer, really. We are good, though - that is the most important thing!

News on TV yesterday: Summer. Christmas-shopping has started :-(

How the heck are kids supposed to believe in Santa Clause and look forward to formerly magical Christmas??

Those coincidences get scary, really.

(I had prepared this post when the news went on). 

 

Kindy goes on: The chimney sweep (we don´t have a chimney, we run on gas) wants to check our "safety". There were paper-lists on the main door with too little places to fill out and I saw it too late.

Man comes in, checks, leaves, 5 minutes max. I added my name to a neighbor. Some hmhmhm scratched me out.   

 

"Nice" house we live in... On it goes...

Also this still in the morning news.

No. Just no.

We stand with Ukraine. They protect us! And they are NOT the aggressor, they are the victim.

They will (hopefully) give nothing away.

It´s kindergarten for the big ones, so sad - let us be happy and kick that little man who rides half-naked on horses out!

This is for Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals.

 Henry 🦁´s wife

 

Being a Mom must be a hard job... She looks like she´s finally had it! And the wee one still giggles, it seems.

 

 

The Whats And Wants

 

1969, the ad is from - Ingo was old enough for a bike like that.

Maybe.

 

(So.Darn.Cool!!!)... 

 

I got a girlie-bike in 1976 instead.

And now I have this.

 

 

I colored it back  in 2008 so no one steals it.. Worked!

And yes. A boy´s bike...

 

I´ll walk come Tuesday when I have a date with ESE. 

 

Traffic is like hell here.

Especially e-scooters.

Even Ingo does not dare to cycle anymore!!!

You? Still up to cycling? And nice? No respect here.

At least I will have a Döner with fK.

 

Apart from that Ingo feeds me (too) well....

 

Henry 🦁

 

To "the cool" - heat waves are mostly gone, now - I am tired (I want to help other women who go through menopause... and their partners).

And have to manage studies as well - at this age!!! (53 here)

Gack!!!

I started being a co-parent (like many) at age 5+.

Tired, soooo tired. Many a job on the kid´s way.

I want to... re-tire. I´m having enough and yes. 

Others are off way worse.

I am aware.

Look at Ingo. King of the jungle - like I was.

No boss I had, I was ... me. For Volkswagen...  And now... a student.

Starting at zero.

Again.

We (Must) Manage

This tea-towel was made by people with "restrictions" - some we all have, I think.

Right arm, right ear.... pfffft, not much use here. I wear glasses. When others talk ... I cannot filter, it all goes in my brain.

So this Quokka tells me "it´s OK".

 

How about you?

 

I showed you here when we were there in person. 

 

This is for

 

 Eileen.

 

Henry is asleep. Or... if you look close... in first pic!

A wonder I woke up.

Menopause is a terrible thing and no. I am not supposed to take other "pills" for two months.

 

 

 

FFO And Take Care (Of Others)

 

Today I join Nicole´s FFO and Gilenna with this.

Because I am thankful.

 

All this studies went so weird and so many friends/family were there for me! 

 

I am not into botanical stuff like E.T. and I did not call but was called so it makes sense again!

Problem not solved yet, though, ugh.  

 

Watching the movie E.T. I didn´t "get" it but in Madeley/Perth  in our SC we have a book exchange:

 

 I returned another and took this home cause I will re-read it!

 

 

This is for Annie´s Smiles.

I embrace how they all take care of... me.

All my life I took care of others, nice I get it back.

I think Ingo has a hard time with me and endures...

I have a weight blanket (6kg) to soothe me. I throw it out in my sleep... Night after night.

 

So. We need some funnies?

 

 

Camera thankfully was off. I am the cat, actually... I got answers.... "meep?!"

 

 

 

 

Crazy works!!!!

That´s it from me today. I still wait....

 

 

 

Henry 🦁