"Sweet" FFO And Funnies

With these sweet faces I join Nicole´s FFO and Gillena´s Lunch Break.

These are with ham, cheese and olives and no. I cannot not buy such stuff!

And despite so small (10cm / 4 inches) I managed but one at a time.

 

 

LOL, sent fK a pic and she answered, "oh sweet Kitty!" - Said, "from you I rather expected a  'are you kidding me?!`" - her "am I that direct?!" - yupp and I like that! 

Now some funnies, speaking of waffles... what about pancakes instead? 

 

 

 

Henry 🦁

 ... weekend! Have a happy one. 

T This Yummy Week

 

 

With this yummy MONSTER-drink, Grace´s oranges, Ingo´s bear and Henry 🦁 I join Elizabeth´s T today.

 

The journal:

 

Monday: We moved in here 2011. We have 2026. The kitchen we took over from the pre-owners. 

It seems I am the first person to clean the shelf above the stove.

Feel free to puke. Yessss...

Cleared out food that was best before... 2019 etc. ***from the green chamber!

Wow. 

Felt sad and good at the same time. Made a list to check off whenever we take something  so this will hopefully not happen again. 

Do you have such a list(s)? 

 

Tuesday: Lazy day. And why not. Laundry. List on what to buy for Thursday when W comes over for home-made onion-cake. And maybe baked apple pie.

 

 

Wednesday: Phone: Work agency. The really very nice lady asking me how´s it going and saying on me explaining ESE is still looking for a job for me, "OK, I wait another month and wish you the best!" I´d let her know I have the certificate beforehand. Germany ain´t that bad, eh? I get money.

All groceries done for the big baking day for W. Tools out, too - all by myself, from hiiiiiigh up! By myself - no asking Ingo for help! ... I used a stick. But I got the job done, Grace!

 

OK...  I can do it (?)
 

 

Thursday:  Hups! Not 200 ... 600g whipped cream I need! Off to REWE! Bea at the cash-out, knowing I´m not into sweets, "what do you want with so much cream?!" - "Baking for neighbor!" - "Mr. Hein? 😍" ... Bea does not live in our house. 

Yes. Braunschweig is a huge city. And a village at the same time, I love this! 

Baked Apple- and  Onion cake and both went well! 

W came with pink Gerbera! And took some apple cake upstairs. 

84?! He turns 87 in May! Fit like a sports-shoe (maybe that´s a German saying).

 

 

And W brought back my lille Christmas tree, too! He took care of when we were in Madeley/Perth. 

LOL, W: "Don´t you have a coffee-machine?" - "We do, in the bathroom - here´s no space." - "????" - He was impressed when I showed.

 

 

779 construction sites on German Autobahns - happy Easter-traveling... 

 

 

Friday: Boy, did I sleep in! Baking, cooking, "entertaining", marched to the city etc etc was maybe a tad too much. Cooking for myself, no worries, but for others... it MUST be good.

Tasted the apple pie - good! Not too sweet, yummy! Froze the rest, 3 portions, had a slice of onion cake, soooo yummy! Confident to bake for fK! Well, maybe next month as in 3 more to eat and 2 frozen.

HAVEN and  REXI!!! "Night at the Museum"

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Slept in. Am so darn tired. 

Found more potatoes. Ingo must be a real fan. 

Sunday: Tired, Slept in. Löwenzahn, Die Maus, Fairy Tale. Got a hair cut. Take that literally. Short! So short! Ingo is a do-er. What has to go has to go.

Henry 🦁 you saw in pic #1. 

A Bumpy Start

As mentioned I´d booked our Cabin a year in advance and we got an "upgrade"... again.

I hate those upgrades as usually they´re the opposite.

 

See, Ingo shaves here in front of the only mirror and without a basin. For water he went to the kitchen sink. Well, you make more steps like that!

 

The loo-door I closed for Ingo with the portable heater as it opened itself, a sliding door worth it´s name! 

 

But what when you´re alone?

Of course Ingo came up with a proper idea.

 

 

I told the new manager and she looked at me as if I was nuts. I mean as in: We do not ask for help, Ingo solved the problem! I told them so they do not wonder.

 

 

Yes, upgrade. All new, nice, looks good but is not... oh forget it.

To the left you see where you put your towel. 

Problem is... the shower-door opens to that side...

 

Huge wardrobe. Just... you could not hang a robe in there as it had 5 compartments!

So, if you have a dress (I didn´t)... improvise to hang it!

 

 

We had an extractor hood to the right beside the kitchen basin.

Ingo found a two-plates induction-stove in the drawer below.... 

OK, we don´t cook there anyways, but really, who designed that!

 

We went for...

 

 

Do the dishes and let them dry ... in the basin as there is the basin only. Sadly I forgot to take a pic but one good thing:

I used the microwave a couple of times.

Yes, me!!!! 

In all other cabins that darn thing was high up and I had to ask for help - here it is on the kitchenette!

Thank you, someone thought of small people!!!

 

Also nice, at our ...

 

 Kingsway City ... when you go to Big W / Thingz you still find:

 

 And... what is that on the floor???

 

 

I got that huhhh... 2017? I have them all, from Big W.

This time I with a heavy heart putting down the left one - the other I have:

 

 But I got the book I ordered January 2025 - yes you read that correct, 2025... at amazon and never got. Big W... not a worry!

 

 

My Jamie-Selection :-) Actually I don´t need it as this man gives everything away for free on Facebook as he wants us to learn and have fun and live healthy!

 

But... You know...

We first saw Jamie 2015 on TV in Madeley/Perth and I LOVED his way of teaching!

He explains in detail and says, "just a suggestion, do it your way.".

And THAT is how I like to learn!

 

As it is Freo-productions with Freo being but 20-something km from Perth books and DVDs are much cheaper than in Germany and.... off I went!
 

Nah. let me say... I bought it out of respect. It´s a give and take, right?

 

We had a bumpy start with that cabin .. I might book it again.

At least it wasn´t "Ingo... Ingo!!! The door!" 

In "our" cabin I often had the huge door in my hands and am too weak to put it back. 

 

Sorry this turned to be soooo long!

 

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon 🦢 (imagine this emoji is black) 

 

 

T This Holiday-ParTy

 

At Grace and P´s place. On Feb 1st, if I get that right!

P gave me this cooler - not aware we drove a NISSAN Patrol LBW in 1999 (see here, if you like) and munchy is right in, too, Sami brought Grill´d burger patties!!!! YUM (better than in the "restaurant"!)

This of course is for Elizabeth´s T! 

 

 

The journal:

 

 

Monday: Went to the reception. Ingo wanted a mop, a bucket, hand brush and shovel. I needed tap-water anyways.

Closed. Due to staff shortage open only 10:00-04.00. Hm, it´s 10:20... a slightly pis#ed woman noticed me and shouted over "closed all day today!!".

This place is going down the drain... So sad... Not even a notice.

If I was Ingo:

Leave a note: "I wanted to clean but you were not able to handle me the gear needed."

Back in the day you had a cleaning team weekly.

This was quite a day... with Grace and Sami in Cottesloe!

Loads of steps :-) Post to come (in a while).

 

 

Tuesday: Wow - apart from the terrible war in Iran Mount Isa has the heaviest rainfall since 1926!  Cyclones  predicted. Supermarkets empty... And now that we are about to leave it will warm up here in Perth. Why, thank you.

Went a last time to the city and will you believe it?! Only time an officer checked if my Transperth card works (it did).

BUT!!!! The interior light was out  in the pitch dark tunnels - scary.

Which leads me to: Asked J why the panto is so low at times. Grace: "What´s a panto?"  (my baby 💓)

J: "Stromabnehmer" 😂 - He still knows a bit German (worked in Braunschweig for Siemens mobility, like me, too).

A sad good bye...  LOL, no one really says "Stromabnehmer"!

 

Wednesday: Packing after a slow start to the day, then off via Transperth to the international airport.

Without a good-bye as the reception was closed again.

Did not meet Rosemary, who always makes sure we can book as long as we want, either.

Last time Skye and her were there, there was hugging and thank you pressies from them.

This time: Shortened office hours due to lack of personal - which is no wonder. We threw the keys in the mailbox. 

Off to Singapore,..

 

Ingo: Had to: Step wide, hands up, etc etc at the check-in.

To me: "Go :-)" 

"Uh, what???" - "Go!, just walk through :-)"  - I must be "a lovely person"!

 

Then another plane to Frankfurt. 

 

 

Thursday:  We arrived early and Ingo managed to solve the Deutsche-Bahn-problem, we were home by 2:30 p.m.-ish, me totally knackered. But it was worth it, Perth!!!!

A woman helped me with my luggage, so nice!!! See, I never learn. So much fun stuff to buy and I forget I have to carry it later!

 

Friday: 03:30 a.m. .. wide awake and HUNGRY!!! 04:00 a.m. Ingo and I got up and I made myself a bread with tea-wurst and a cheesestring. After all my body thinks it´s lunch-time.

TV: Lost places.: Dracula. 

 

And I have what I have, huh... From FB:

 

 

 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Went to the city and waited with another woman for a store to open.

Later went to Karstadt and got pencils - when going out I saw a rather young woman in a kind of very modern wheel-chair.

Of course (!) I turned around and re-opened the door for her, that´s what normal people do, right?!!! Right???

She gave me the broadest smile for that and I did not know... why?

I smiled back but it made me sad that this behavior of mine does not seem to be  "just normal".... In what kind of a world do we live in?! Oh, forget it... Just keep on being nice and helpful, right. If it´s but giving a smile ...

Open a door,..

Helping with a suitcase...

Give and take... (be) people. We all should just people. Or goating, I´m not sure now... Sometime I wanna goat and bump-head nasty people.

 

Sunday: Up at six. Darn jet-lag won´t wear off. Slow day and YAY - Löwenzahn and Die Maus, fairy tale! Not.On.Demand.

Not!!! On 11:05, yes :05 Löwenzahn starts! 11:30 Die Maus, 12:00 Fairy Tale.

My childhood in 2026.

I "demand" this - and I get it. I am old, LOL! 

 

 

Love-love-love... love!

Recommended from 5-6(0) years on! Many our generation watches these still!

Do you still watch your childhood-series as well? 

The fairy tale I knew, but it was oh-so-sweet! It gave me sooo many smiles.

 

Henry 🦁 with his alter ego, the Black Swan 

 

 

Well. Hit 50 and get stuck.

Kingsway Caravan Park, I could manage you, I could, with Ingo!!! 

But Australia says we´re "too old"... 50+... too "old".

Life-experience and all? Does not matter ... I could tell stories of the "fit and young ones.."

 

...who do know nothing about working.. .

Australia, one day this will catch up! And you want the 50+ gang!!!

 

 

Lemon Pasta - A Foodie-Mural

I tried Jamie´s #1 out of 3 quick pasta-recipes - quick and yummy!

As Sami is on holiday I need another mural! 

See here:

 

 

In case you cannot see the video:

Cook spaghetti, don´t forget the salt.

The sauce: Get an unwaxed lemon, grate the zest, use 1/2 - 1 of the lemon juice, add salt and then twice as much extra virgin olive oil and 40 g of good, grated parmensan.

Mix, add the spaghetti with some of the starchy water, grate more cheese and decorate with fresh basil:

 

 And ha-HA!

 

 

So much better with black olives!

Speaking of eating... after days and days of not eating I suddenly got hungry 14 years ago.  

Mom had made it. She left us around lunch time after fighting so hard. Darn cancer you.

14 years - can you believe that. Miss you, Mom. And as long as I do that you are still here. Somehow, a bit.

 

The internet series: 

 

"Habits of the 1960s that would be unthinkable today 

 

 

 Surfing was trendy

 

Surfing became increasingly popular in the 1960s."

 

I  tried that once. I failed. And burnt my back badly. I was 14. You? 

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 It is yummy, Henry!