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. 

Let´s Go... Into The Water (Mandurah#6)

 

This is another find with our host, in Mandurah.

 

 

 

This is Charles Olaf Wilson (1838 - 1926) and the Leviathan. He played a significant part in the maritime history of Mandurah. He also was a photographer.

 

 

All I found was him - but reckon I am wrong as I neither found the mural and also it´s another style, I guess...

 

 

This for  Sami´s COLOURFULWORLD Monday Murals!

 

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon

 

 

 

 

P.S. River asked in last post if I could work for ESE (count me in at rail hopefully soon again) from Australia and if, where I would live.

 

Sadly the answer is likely no as that would be a lot of visa-trouble and getting out and back into the country - and what to do with Ingo? 

 

But if... oh.... I may dream, huh? 

At first: Madeley. Cabin #101 (hey, I have my ice-cream-truck in the front each Sunday - on our parking lot! Post to come). And meet my Perth-friends.

Then I´d move to Carnarvon. Oh, I´d drive to the old Prawn Jetty to read a book each arvo.

Then  Broome. 

Then... Darwin, now this really is NT ;-)

I think back and forth, that would be my dream. Holidays... pop over at River´s for a cuppa!

Like my ice-cream-mate said, "see you in two years!"...

 

 If you celebrate: Happy Easter-Monday.

A Sunday Morning

 

 

I have sweet memories of these places. 

Wyndham.. aww. I was not to pay for my visit in the clinic, got tips where to go instead. Such a nice doctor!

Kununurra, Darwin, awww. this makes me so "homesick". This, of course is NT, Northern Territory already.

 

To be honest... I haven´t seen a Coles in years. I´m a Woolies.

But!!! We once stayed in a small village in the Atherton Tablelands just because a Coles there had real "German" breadrolls, called "petit pains" - a French baker, hmmm, sooo yummy. A joy! 

 

If we were rich and Ingo healthy.. guess where we´d be! On the road! 

 

Did this often, too....

 

 This was 1995...

 

They took my blood, urine and... I did not have to pay a cent!

Sad as it is. The doc said it was a joy to have a patient who is sober and clean for a change.

There are changes but there are no changes.

I always greet people.

At "our" shopping Centre in Madley only ALDI  has tokens for the trolleys - BIG W and Wollies have them for free so there are trolley-collectors, mostly Aborigines. They never look at me. Sad.

I remember that little Aborigine-boy who walked over to us, pointing at me, "you: girl!" - at Ingo, "you: boy!" and gave us a wonderful, proud grin. That was 1999.

I wonder what he´s up to now. His parents were sober and had a new car.
 

Wanna hit the road again... More soon...

 

  Henry 🦁 

 

When A British Horse Loves (The) Queen!

 

 

Bummer, is it?! 

If Freddie only would live to see this! At the end people clap to the song!

I bet the horse enjoyed it all! 

Chapeau to the lady, too. I mostly got ponies but once.... his name was Alexander for a reason. I fell into his back all the time and yet he snuggled up afterwards anyways. Also a black one, so beautiful.

Well, those days are over for me...

 This is for... 

 Eileen.

 And ... a kind of animal, too:

 

 

And just for the fun - in case you did not know: Freddie learned the ballet dancing:

 

  Henry 🦁 

 Ummm, yes. No...

FFO - Learn And Laugh

 

 To make you smile and maybe cry: 

 

 

 

  

With these faces I join Nicole´s FFO. 

And some funnies, huh?

 

 

 

Having no car and no need to drive I find that... semi-funny or the sad truth.

 

 Well, Cheers, then...

 

 More Queen-content tomorrow!

 

 

The ultimate...

 

 And of course... 

 

 Henry 🦁 

 Have a fun Friday!

 

Hello, Elizabeth...

 

Yes. We happily went to Elizabeth Quay. Again. Together. 

I hated this!

It felt like Perth tries to copy Sydney and Perth does not need this!!!

 

I do not "hate" Sydney - nice people there! I went by myself, even took public transport, by myself (believe me, it is overwhelming!). Ingo was trying to sell our car in King´s Cross in 1995 and I took a day off.

There was or is a traveler car market there.

 

Had no clue how to get to Circular Quay and just asked people, got tips where to go and put my paper-map away, cause... just ask the friendly people!!

 

But... but... I feel more like a "Perthie" and did not see why Perth seemed to want to be as "fancy" as Sydney!

The Bell Tower seemed to disappear! 

 

 

Once one of THE icons of Perth, standing by itself...

 

 

... is now surrounded by high buildings and others steal the show...

Hopefully back soon blogger Grace and I were not a fan of the development!

Aww, well... the things you cannot change you have to embrace, right?

 

Here you see...

 

 The Elizabeth Quay Bridge.

 

To the end of our holiday lotterywest  had another fireworks - as this time I had no spider-bite I could attend!

 

See here:

 

 

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon

 

 

 

That was fun!

Though, to be honest... the LED-light show I liked much better. Environment-friendly and not scary to animals... 

 

On The Chase...

 

 ... hopefully... and very soon... of... oh, very sad. I found a video on FB, a Ukrainian soldier with a sunflower that grows and blends into a whole field. A sign of hope.

Not allowed to embed.

 

OK, no sunflower with a soldier then.

Instead let us go with respect this way:

 

 

Oh, I owe you this, too!

 

Saw it the first time in 2006 - it was meant to be "temporary".

I hope the war is temporary...

This is for Tom´s Signs2.  

 

And weeeee... March´s up! And I am no April-joke - ESE still looks for work for me...

 

Anyhows, here goes:

 

 

 

Happy April everyone!

The Black Swan, Perth´s Icon

 

  

 

... soon!