T STands for... As Always

 

Let´s go Tutti Frutti! Hihi fun fact from AI:

"'Tutti Frutti' aired on RTL  from January 21, 1990, to February 21, 1993. The iconic erotic game show, hosted by Hugo Egon Balder, was broadcast late Sunday evenings."  - People bought color-TVs like crazy!!!

This is for Elizabeth´s T :-)

 

The journal:

 

Monday: Ummmm... my end is near? E-mail (I didn´t open it): "Burial in the North and Baltic Seas". Hang on - I hope I have a couple more years?!

Next: "Home emergency call system - immediate support in case of emergency" What did I miss??? And it´s only Monday! Hey, yes, my back hurts, but otherwise I´m still fine! 

Asked Ingo. He thinks I can do that super-duty job... eventually - will ask mT for further advice. Don´t wanna disappoint people who believe in me.

Why the heck do they do that?! 

 

Tuesday: mT said: "Germany suffers badly. Go for it at ESE, be honest, you CAN learn this stuff." Always good to be able to go back to your teamleader, if the last time he was there was 2018 in this role ("just" friends now). He´s still here!!! Ingo and fK in my back is good, too. On my back? mT said everyone is on holiday now, too. "Wait".

 

 

Wednesday: Started 17C then warming up - Summer seems to come back. Everyone signed sick or on holiday and no one can help me out - that darn company who shares ST4-tutorials needs a company-account. Hilarious. Watched Cast Away. Seemed fitting.

 

 

Thursday:   Bucket List I watched. What´s on yours? "Laugh until you cry"? 

"Kiss the most beautiful  girl in the world"? - Granddaughter it was. 

Other I kept lying down and stood the pain. It warmed up. Wanted to go to the city but just went grocery. We keep a distance - it hurts. Back, heart and mind hurt. I feel alone. Left behind. Not good enough. Job-wise... nothing, fK on holiday - I will not interrupt. My Brother - not a word.

 

 

Friday: Slept in again. Good for my back but I think it might be really a depression this time. I hear nothing job-wise. Ingo keeps silent, too. No worries I will NOT fall for any meds!

Please do NOT pity me! 

 

Crazy thing at FB for Braunschweig: BBQs forbitten in the parks due to the dry heat (well, "heat", but dry!). You are to save water, too... 21C /69F is not my idea of "heat"... OK might rise to 27C - "warm". 

So I decided to very slowly with my medical corset on walk to the city later - that is my anti depression tool. Didn´t happen. But I went to EDEKA.

 

Weekend: Saturday: Ingo repaired my TV!!! And got me beautiful flowers. I´m a bit better!!!

 

 

Sunday: Die Maus on soccer, gahhhhh. And at Shaun they had the hiccups - hilarious!

Nearly, only nearly forgot Dad passed on this day in 2002 - crazy I´d bought his fav flowers on Wednesday (the Sunflowers).

 

If you crave Summer like I do, how about this:

 

 

Munchy - speaking of Tutti Frutti!

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 

I know, things could be worse, but it´s not "easy" anymore.

Anyways, have a great T-Day - enjoy! 

 

 

Ice-Scream, I Scream!

 

 

On February 22, a Sunday, this year I wrote from Perth that we were watching a cooking-show and I thought I´m in a horror-movie as I heard some strange noise that did not fit into that show.

I only saw the truck as he drove away but googled the name and contacted the driver who came right back (thank you, FB!)! 

Next Sunday I had my cam ready, see he stood in the street.

 

Then ... he saw me standing on the porch and as we don´t have a car he drove directly in front our door! Now THAT is service.

Took the neighbors a bit to find him there, so we had a nice chat. 

 

This last one  is by Ingo:

 He went away with the words, "see you in two years!" 

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon

 

Birdies!!!! 140 Of Them!! #6

 

One more of the mural-series by Graeme Miles Richards. 

 

That blue bird...

Let me take you back to 2019 ...

 

Oh, wait, see that penguin?

Our host and I share our wedding anniversary, so, as her Hubby worked in Adelaide she flew over and before our wedding invited us to Penguin Island as Wedding-pressie 2013, see here, if you like! 

 

Back to 2019... 

Grace and P took us to Yanchep NP. 

 

There was a HUGE spider. Ingo and Grace tried to capture it!

 

P and I headed on!!! No spiders, please, I just say: 2024.... I got spider-bites. Our host took me to medicare... Gack here! That really was not y best visit. After that I got bitten by sandflies.

 

Well, the birder P is he stopped me! 

"See  it?! It´s special!!!"

He pointed.

Went down to my level. Pointed. Nada - I saw nothing. A tiiiiny bird. Nope! Huh????

 

We went for lunch.

P called me over - see... in Australia the food is delivered, the drinks in Pubs are not, so I thought he needs my  - very clumsy - help (he did, too).

 

He pointed out of the window and I thought... "not again that bird!!!!"

 

Sami, you know P. He tipped me on the shoulder, looked like a 7-year-old school-boy in mischieve, grinned and pointed me to the screen behind us.

 

Ha-Ha!!!!! The Simpsons were on and I could pinpoint the episode! - Their Daughter A and I ... huuuuh, people run away cause everything is "The Simpsons" when the two of us meet! 

P didn´t expect me an expert, too!

 

Later I found:

 

 

This bird DOES exist after all!!! See here!

 

This is for  Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals!

 

And that bird substitutes the black swan for once! 

 

Oh, I can´t wait to meet you all again!

At least: Summer is rolling in here! 

 

 

 

 

 

The Magical Tree

 

 

The following are still from the buskers-festival and with these I join...

 

Nicole´s SITAR

 

 ... and Gillena´s

 

 

Made with love....and...

 

 

This will become a pressie for a friend - this was another surprise-bag, of course!

 

I´ll be off to the Day/weekend of the lower Saxony people again! 

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 To a yummy Sunday! Oh, there is sooooo much food, wish I could eat more!

 

 

Meet Santi Ikto

Here is another Giant by Thomas Dambo.

AI: "Santi Ikto sits cross-legged, looking out over the Indian Ocean, summoning water from the sea with his up-stretched hands. His wooden digits resemble a giant raising hands emoji, paying reverence to the sea from high up on the sand dunes. The sun scoops a hole out of the ocean as the earth tips towards the skyline. It is a couple of hours before sunset but it would be magical here, on the west coast of Australia, with Santi Ikto giving thanks to the day as it slips below the water.

Seven metres tall and made of foraged and recycled wooden objects, Santi Ikto is a public sculpture made by Danish artist and environmental activist, Thomas Dambo. Located at Koolyininap (Halls Head), it is one of more than 150 "trash trolls" around the world - including in Denmark, France, the USA and Singapore, and as I learned from Bill, Ireland - and one of five larger-than-life creations that make up the Giants of Mandurah.

The community helped Dambo collect items from the environment to make Santi Ikto. His beard is fashioned of sticks and pine cones and his wide, flat hands, body and head are modelled out of what looks like reused packing crates.

The Giants were designed as a trail - a journey into the beauty of the wetlands, waterways, bushland and wildlife on the land of the Bindjareb Noongar people. Pick up the guide at the Mandurah Visitor Centre and begin your hunt, collecting clues to the whereabouts of the giants, which will take you around Mandjoogoordap (Mandurah) and the wider Peel region in search of these beautiful beasts.

 

Here goes:

 

More to come!

 

T STands for LaughTer

 

Huh, what?!

 

... "According to a mysterious recipe" - but, as Heidrun rightfully said here: We should not say witch (Hexe), but nature expert. Oh, but don´t you love the "black cat"? And the bats?

This comes from the Harz mountains "around the corner", is a non-alcoholic drink.

Guess some think, hey, Braunschweig?! She lives close to Wolfenbüttel, where Jägermeister comes from, she should drink that when speaking of herbal drinks, but, no.

 

 "Has something..." if orange or all herbs, we have it.

 

 

With this herbal yum I join Elizabeth´s T. 

 

The journal from past week:

 

Monday: Went to REWE, Bea at the self-check-out and I got greeted by her with, by hand-signal, LLAP 😘! 

Huh? Looked down on myself and yes, wore a Spock-T-Shirt..

 

 

... but it  was Star Wars Day! 

I had no idea as I´m no fan!!!

 

What´s yours  - I look for trekking, rather, but ... what the heck? Live Long And Prosper!

 TV-News: 76% of Germans (...) are not happy with  Chancellor Merz/our politics, huhhhh, who guessed?!

 

  

Tuesday: Grey, not rainy. No nothing from my hopefully-again-boss. 

I feel pretty lost. "Pretty"...

 

 

Wednesday: Nice chat via phone - oh do I wish I was in the office! Feel so useless.

Had another crumpet, oh. I thought, hm. Hot pepper and cinnamon - good combo?

And weeeee.. the cinnamon went in. Was more like a cake. And my sweet tooth was asleep! 

 

Ingo rescued my cam... again! 

 

 

Thursday: Crumpet with egg´n cheese (and hot pepper and thyme).

Darn it: Same in your place? Ingo does not like crumpets, so I buy but for myself and.it.is.too.much. AI said I can freeze it. What did we do before AI???? Managed over half a half one and luckily you can have the rest cold later.

 

Friday: Wanted to call a Mrs Lachmund > "Laughing mouth". Instead a man answered and guess what -  I made him laugh! It was about the darn condo in BH and he asked, "who lived in there before?" - me: "hang on... looks like under the sofa... HEMPEL!"

There is a German saying about people who are a bit messy... "Looks like at Hempel´s under the sofa". The mnemonics one has, huh. We left laughing into the weekend.

Nice long chat with cf, more laughter. 

 

Weekend: Saturday: Yippee... WiFi-cables part#1 are off the ground! It was always a "watch out, don´t stumble!", especially with W.

Evening, Ingo knocks, I´m at the PC.... I say, "you don´t have to click!" - See how much I look forward to work?! In my brain: click...

I remember when we went dancing on Saturday nights... 

Wall-E on TV! 

Got kisses. 

 

Sunday: Die Maus: "Das war Österreichisch". In Die Maus they explain to us kids what will be the program and repeat it in a different language, naming which one it was direct after.

This time it was Austrian! And.. I thought "???" having worked with Austrians for months it´s German in a different accent to me, that´s all. To others it´s a foreign language.

My beginning with them: "Please, repeat?", LOL, or "I didn´t understand?" - "Passt" - "Huh?!" 

Got kisses. 

Bummer... German ex-chancellor Schröder at Putin´s side? Please, no. 

 

Sadly then. When something steams I will not touch it. Ingo flipped BIG (all good again).

 

 Munchy...

 

 

Freezed the rest and have a sweet tooth-person in mind. And will be careful next time!!!

The hearty I show you next time, yum! 

 

Henry 🦁 

Have a happy, yummy T-Day and laugh a lot.

See. I am an honest person. 

If the agency of work forces me to apply the other person at that job-place would see: I don´t want to.

I proved myself at ESE. I had wonderful colleagues and was allowed to work from home even after Covid. Because they TRUST me.

 

Birdies!!!! 140 Of Them!! #3

 

 

One more of the mural-series by Graeme Miles Richards.

Hey, is that a duck from Braunschweig sneaking in there?

A fine idea of the artist to put an "ordinary" duck between those exotic birds, don´t you think?

 

Braunschweig, btw....

 

Ingo drove with me to Globus last week and we passed by this:

 

Dear Sami, (at least) one tennant is still living in there and hence... the house is still standing!

 

This is for  Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals!

 

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon

 

 

 Also provided by our host! I had a huge shower, too - my sneakers are not rainproof! A wonderful, heavy rain.