Alone? Lo...

 

Another look back to our last Perth-visit this year.

This is at The Belgian. 

Note: She has a paper-book with her! 

 

I remember when still working for CGS, local. We went to the Brodocz for lunch sometimes, on Sodhexo. You pay half the price with that.

There was a lady, all on her own and I felt so sorry! I thought she was alone, lonely... I was thinking of leaving my colleagues and asking if she wanted company, but my colleague, Iris K, said, no, don´t.

 

Fast forward and I found myself in Freo, South of Perth, in a pub, the Gage Roads, ordering a beer, on my own.

Not because Ingo was sick or friends had no time, no, because...

 

I WANTED to be there on my own.

 

People looked at me in pity.

Can you read me? Sometimes you are just so content with your life you want to enjoy it - just by yourself. 

 

Next I went to Grill´d, same... oh, hey, how often did it happen that a male stranger pops up beside me and the staff assumes I "belong" to him. I admit... I´m awfully happy in Perth and about and from time to time stroll off on my own.

 

The lady in first pic was happy!

 

Other, still inviting you to Perth, I found a Jerky-Shop in.the.CBD. !!!!

We got some:

 

 

And!!!! Ingo just took some home.

Yes. To Germany!!!! 

I handle it as a treat-treat!

 

Since BSE you are NOT allowed to bring in Jerky from Australia - total nonsense - it is DRIED  meat. And in Australia this desease never hit...

 

Next Thursday I take you through this...

 

 .. stay tuned, if you like!

 

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon

 

 

 

 I promise it will be "gigantic"!

 

 

 

Recap 2025 ... A Bit Late

 

 

Jeanie inspired me to this - this was January 2025 - I try to recap best moments... (I was so happy to still have my job!) 

 

Let me head to February:

 

 

 It was too cold, though... Take it to Perth? Pressie by Ingo.

 

March... 

 

 Pressie by... Ingo!

 

April... 

 

 

 

My friend´s "wife" thinks .. I dunno - Vegemite you spread very, very thin - the next 5 years I´ll eat Vegemite-sandwich! And if some Pomm pops in, I have Marmite, too - no discussion 😘

I put wife in "" as they are not married. They have twins but would not profit from the system for them, or themselves, just because they are women - Germany, behind the rock. 

 

 

You can help by sending a post card and twice I got one back! Only twice which I think is good.

 

Once I donated to a German institution and year after year I got cheap "pressies" until I told them off.  THAT was where my money went to?! I did not help people in need I helped a German institution - I was young, had my first job, not much money, I was shocked and angry.

No ad, but if you wanna help our helpers... here. 

 

May... 

 

 

Both pair of socks knitted by Ingo´s (late) Grandma - do I miss her - we lived with her.

And when Ingo had to move out every second weekend I visited (Ingo lived still in Rhüden, me in Braunschweig) we popped by and even before we reached her door she ripped the door open and went: "My Children!!!" I´m wearing another pair of her socks right now.

Note my tops differ so there is something left for Elmo... And that became her hobby - I found her on the ground sorting rests of wool so we get:

 

 ... for the whole family.

 

 I think the plant dies - it was too cold!

 

June... 

 

 And...

 

 "We" ... "stole" them from the woods and I rescued some to Braunschweig.

 

July... 

 

 

I hate! to travel without Ingo and by accident they gave me this bed to attend in a crazy city (Dortmund) a very stupid seminar. Did I feel lonely... (only my bed-side lit).

 

 Let´s hop to August...

 

 

 Turns kinda in an hommage, huh?

 

September... 

 

 

Let me tell you... I cried of joy. I cried of joy. The Alstom-laptop was delivered to my door by my teamlead fE even!

 

 

Having my job back - if only as trainee - the flowers traveled from my private PC to work PCs and back again - such a wonderful feeling!!!

To be productive at work and loved at home.

 

On to October... 

 

 

In the 1970´s my Grandma bought detergent Pril because of the flower-stickers - they are back, the stickers!

 

 

 

And I presented myself with a Halloween-calendar and they all piled up by Ingo´s tram and train!

 

Huh, November already! 

 

 

fK asking me for a call and my glue-engineer mSA asks the same! mDA1 just calls. I like to be prepared (having Rexis I need to plan )Rexi is a huge cup of tea and... meep).

How do you do that? Some really in a middle of a teams-meeting say, "sorry, I need to go!".

 

 A crooked tree ended up here and Ingo presented me with a new lamp!

 

 Now finally, December:

 

 

 Henry 🦁  of course was the happiest, having his people all around him!

 

 

I got my X-Mas-Pressie: 98% I get my job back!

Red coat is Gurri on the left, right side fK. All others were on holiday already or working from home (yes I am small...).

 

 2025 had it´s up and downs. Let´s count the ups, right?

 

"Yippeeeee!!!" says this astronaut! 

He´s a key holder and pocket lamp I could not resist - maybe a she, I don´t care even, we are people - also nice: I said to my customer: 

 

"Are you allowed to put on a meeting with others for me, I´m but a trainee!" - 

"You are my colleague!!!" - and he used the male form, "Kollege", not KollegIN". One thing fK and I are of different opinions, but most of my life I worked with men only, was the only "woman" and treated like a man.

 

To let us being PEOPLE. 

 

Have a happy Sunday! 

 

 

Tue...???

 

 

Have a great day.... T-Day, just scroll down!

 

 

The Three Roots

 

49 years later and it starts again.

Bad dreams.

 

I was 4.

My parents presented me with a puzzle 6+ years.

 

Mine way back then was a different one, this is but an example.

It was Christmas-time, advent 1st. I sat at the table struggling with the puzzle, not "supervising" the candle on the advent-wreath - and.. the candle was down, the wreath caught fire!!!

 

 

Behind me: closed balcony-door, no key. Left - no space. Right - little space and the fire. I screamed my soul out! 

 

The puzzle sadly stayed unharmed.

So... I was at it again.

The scene: A long way up a hill between meadows up to a charming house. 

 

And the dreams started.

 

 

I was a flower.

Three roots, with earth on it. One root had more earth than the others and in general - try to run with three roots, try to balance!

I was on the road, on the bitumen, wanted to reach the house... aka mastering the puzzle?

 

Heard a noise behind me, turned my head - it was hard to see due to the large petals.

A construction machine of some kind, trying to catch me - I started running faster. Faster and faster, struggling on my three roots - I was 4 years old!

 

The flowers in the meadow saw me and yelled, "run into the grass!!" - but I couldn´t leave the bitumen.

 

Woke in fear. 

Finally fell asleep and it started all over. 

 

It went on till the puzzle was solved.

 

Now I await my test... Various bad dreams haunt me... 

 

This btw is a great jigsaw to do online. 

 

Woah. Same with you - bad dreams when in fear??

 

This is a pilot-project.  Gack. No one really knows... what to expect, what to deliver.

I feel so helpless. 

fK helps, but doesn´t know, either, mAA1 offered to have a look, just what for, will only buy his time...

I feel sick. I know. In other countries there are bigger problems ... the world around you is present, though... 

I want two legs to walk on steady...

 

Ingo said I´ll fail. 

I´m down like never before. If he´s right > job gone. 

The stress is tremendous. I am not 20 anymore. 

I am a shy introvert.

I will have forced 7 minutes to speak free to "introduce myself" (camera on, HORROR!!), then 13 minutes for the presentation. 

Germans, punctual. 

Then stand the questions for 10 minutes from the female-only-"jury". 

I feel sick. 

Friends and colleagues encourage me...

 

Ingo had an unknown future back then.. me... fixed goal... 

 

The internet series: 

 

"Our everyday objects and their unusual origin stories

 

 Graham Crackers

 

 The tasty biscuits were first introduced by Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham as part of a special diet designed to curb 'carnal urges', based on a then-popular theory that sexual appetite was the ruin of society and could be reduced by bland food."

 

Some people have strange thoughts... 

 

Henry 🦁 

 

 

Let´s hope "we" manage, baby-Henry...

 

 

Movie-Time?

 I love this movie, so on this lazy Sunday.... do you re-watch movies sometimes, too?

 

The Grand Budapest Hotel... After the fairy tale I´ll watch this again!

 

As yesterday Lost Places was on TV again - 4 hours! 

"Lost Places (original title: Abandoned Engineering) is a British docutainment format broadcast in Germany by Welt and N24 Doku."

Of course we get it in the format: Original language, after first sentence the German speaker sets in, annoying as it is it´s the German voice of Tom Selleck, Norbert Langer - very soothing!

 

And hence I must re-watch this movie - do you know and like it, too?

  

 

 

Meet M. Gustave and Zero:

 

 

It´s about trust and strong will, a comedy drama film. Or... movie? I cannot decide.

AI says, "You use 'film'  to refer to the art form or a serious, high-cultural work, often in academic or formal contexts, and it's more common in British English. You use 'movie' for a less formal, entertaining motion picture, especially in American English, and it can also refer to the act of going to the cinema." > film? Either way, I love it.

 

The new internet series: 

 

"The Dangers of Fashion in the Victorian Era 

 

Infectious, contagious clothing 

 

Diseases spread through clothing in the Victorian era. Soldiers and others contracted diseases through clothing made or cleaned by sick people.
From lice to typhus, fabrics often carried and spread disease.
Poor people often wore secondhand clothing without proper disinfection. Diseases like smallpox were transmitted through the fabric." 

 

The countdown to Creep: 

 

 

 

Henry 🦁´s Cousin

 

 Have a great Sunday.