Double-Half or One Ten without ham: December 2024

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

T Stands For Some ChrisTmas .. And More!

With these alcohol free kabooms we hop into the New Year (no, we´re too old and, well, fireworks go off since yesterday, we´re to bed early with ear protection) - but tor those who celebrate... With Elizabeth´s T I say CHEERS!

Have a funny, cheesy, healthy NEW YEAR!

The journal:

Monday:

OMG. TV, docu: "Secrets". People really had no idea what this " ;-) " is.

😱🤪

People MY age!!! (I am 52).

Tuesday: By myself. Christmas movies.

....

Wednesday: By myself. New series!

Thursday: Holidays. What did I do? Nothing. Lazing around!

Friday: Didn´t even write down what I did - am "afraid" of retirement!

Weather so ugly you just stay indoors and watch movies/read books.

Weekend: Saturday: I really, really cannot remember grey days in a row for so long!

At least Ingo and I got our hearts together. 😍

Sunday: Die Maus drove me nuts. "Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler blablabla"

What plus on info gives that to you?

I need to write more - you need to read more and we know it´s but scientists.

Even better: Wissenschaftler:innen.

.. innnen. Ingo calls these dudes "left-green". Sad,I actually liked this astronaut.

0C, grey, another grey day. And the forecast...

Certainly, when you have days off..

Munchy, OH, MY:

It looks like you had a bad day but I cooked so great (I know you are not to say that about yourself, but then you are not to lie, either?)... it was (and will be, it´s for more than one day) sooooo yummy (Mum showed the way).

Henry 🦁

Wishing you all the BEST! (Don´t you just wanna cuddle this guy? His mane looks so "sweet", so "soft").

When the fireworks are done he will leave his place and check on you, check if you are safely home. Come morning he will be back in his place.

I must´ve taken this pic when we had an open day in the castle, so I was high up!

And remember: If you come to visit: All through January you are to shout:

" Henry, this was a great year!"

... then look closely and he WILL show a little smile.

I wish you all a happy 2025!!! To health, fun, good food, friendship, love, craft, art and ... well FUN!!

Monday, December 30, 2024

Finally

The other morning I went through this.

Fog in the city is very seldom!

I danced for joy!

The Aussie version:

(Great, sad movie). Sadly we never saw a Frilled lizard for real.

If you really have time on your hands here is the inspiring story behind the movie (we´ve been in all the places (almost), which makes it double special for us and I had teamleaders and have friends like these very nice dudes:

How Priscilla, Queen of the Desert changed the world | Between A Frock & A Hard Place:

The new series:

"These inventions are older than you think

Internet

The 1960s may be better known for social upheaval and counterculture than for social media and online culture, but the truth is that the history of the Internet begins right here. In 1969, a group of computer scientists developed the ARPANET, named after ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense. While it took decades of progress to develop the Internet we surf today, this first widespread computer network was a necessary first step on the road to endless cat videos and carpool karaoke."

Henry 🦁

The shadow-guy...

(Next murals when Sami is back)

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Time Goes By.

I think an e-mail to Bro is all I can manage. Mom left us 13 ago, is that correct, does time run so darn fast???

Bro created this card.

As I am the older one I am first.

Here is Mom having made Ingo kale for Christmas before we left to Perth:

Note: She´s not looking at me/the cam, but at Ingo.

Go figure... Two posts in one day.sorry, I nearly forgot what today is!!!!!

2011 Bro on 23rd said, "don´t come all the way from Braunschweig. Snow and all and she didn´t wake up since a while, don´t risk your life."

I could not eat.

This day when he called and said she has fallen asleep" (cancer I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!) I suddenly got so darn hungry.

Miss you big.

I Got....

Thank you, dear Tom, hope mine arrived in your place, too.

I always have to smile.

We got married in Joondalup/Perth and Ingo forgot he wants to take my surname.

His name is not Kaiser, but thank you for the smiles!

When signing in at a new shop he indeed takes that name, too.

And such a cute stamp!!!

Tom and his Sweetie sure give a big smile on the fridge!

I love happy mail. Mostly it is... not such nice mail.

Bills etc.

The new series:

"These inventions are older than you think

Light bulbs

It may surprise you that the light bulb is on this list. Because, as you probably always assumed, it was invented in the 19th century. Although history books focus primarily on Thomas Edison's patent in 1879, the history of the light bulb is far more complicated. As early as 1802, scientists such as Humphry Davy, Warren De La Rue, William Staite and Joseph Swan had designed functional but impractical electric lamps. Whether Edison deserves all the credit for perfecting an existing technology is up to you, but your history teacher certainly didn't tell you the whole story of the light bulb."

I like candles, but weee... (OK we don´t have lightbulbs anymore, but yay to no fire).

Addendum: Ingo just found out Night at the Museum IV will be in the cinema next year.

I said, boooooy, how old is Ben Stiller??? Sexiest age, Ingo´s 😍

And... Ingo eventually plans a road trip through... USA. Meep?

I was there at age 14. Not. My Dad won a journey and asked me to join him.

Last sec I said no and my Brother went instead.

Dad and I were too much alike to have fun.

American Footy tonight.

Henry 🦁

Please keep bringing happy mail.

Saturday, December 28, 2024

In Golden Underwear

I was still working for cgs and given to Volkswagen.

We had a "competition", online and one of the winners wrote back, "I am sorry, I don´t have time that day, I give the win to you 😘."

So, Ingo and I went to castle Wolfenbüttel where Ingo Appelt gave a show and MAN.

That guy stripped!!!

Why the heck, I was so surprised I did not take a pic - he wore GOLDEN underwear!!!!

It was a TIME WARP!

"Time Warp" is a song from theatrical and cinematographic productions of The Rocky Horror Show since 1973 to this day, including the 1975 original film... The servants of Dr. Frank-N-Furter: Riff Raff, Magenta, and Columbia perform this song to the guests Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, joined by the Phantoms (or transylvanians). In early productions, this song was after "Sweet Transvestite", but from the movie and onwards, it's sung before."

This man is SO FUNNY.

"Appelt works as a comedian on German television. Appelt worked in different German comedyshows, for example in 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe, Freitag Nacht News, in RTL Samstag Nacht or in Quatsch Comedy Club on television broadcaster ProSieben."

Back in the day he was a lot thinner 😉

But he´s still funny, he was on a show yesterday night (he didn´t strip).

The series:

"These inventions are older than you think

Central heating

For those of us not fortunate enough to live in a tropical paradise, the idea of surviving the winter without central heating is bone-chilling. The ancient Romans probably felt the same way, which is why they developed the hypocaust, a central heating system that was used almost universally in private homes and public baths. While houses with hypocaust heating are no longer being built today, this ancient innovation can still be seen in many ruins in Rome, as well as in Roman centers in England and Germany.... "

-2C / 28F here. Glad we have heating...

Friday, December 27, 2024

FFO, Smiles, Yum And...

With this fearful face I just saw on TV I join Nicole´s FFO. I am in fear, too.

I try to find some smiles for Annie.

Addendum: Annie is on holiday. But Smiles and Funnies are good anyways?

Well, this is but from the internet.
But makes one smile, huh?

We made a deal: I do the dishes, Ingo toast Hawaii. I did my part.

Flowers from Ingo. Now since days no word. I do not know why.

I feel like Walter, though:

Try to smile, days go by, we he have eternity after all (not).

Stupid me had my cam NOT with me on nice summer mornings.

I learned in Australia bins are emptied automatically.

In Germany we still have humans who stand on the back of the truck to collect the bins by hand.

Once a super sexy guy, waving at me and another time a very beautiful blonde woman showering me with a big smile.

Wonder why they collect rubbish bins?Especially in summer... smelly.

At least they come weekly, I have no idea what to do about this:

Ingo buys and buys and buys and never takes care of the DARN shit that comes along with it.

I am the idiot who will have to cut it down and transport it by hand to the public containers cause ours is ALWAYS full.I don´t want no more.

Try to see it with a laugh:

When KFC came to Braunschweig it was super-yummy and once in a while (every third month) I stopped on the way home from work from Wolfsburg.

Near IKEA another one opened and Ingo and I stopped there, too, yum.

We came from his Brother who lives in Emden and stopped there, again. I needed to go pee and I am quick - ask any girlfriend of mine, I am long gone - including washing hands - before they even get up!

Or ask my male colleagues from back then, for that matter. I don´t know what other women do on the toilet, I go pee, wash my hands, that´s about that.

Mirror too high? I do not need to see my face to wash my hands...

This time Ingo already had the floppy food that was kept warm for hours. No more KFC.

The man would turn in his grave knowing what became of his business.

I am sorry if these funnies are not so funny today. I don´t feel good. Must´ve done something wrong and am not told what. So I cannot do it better.

Did it wrong.

And for Gilenna´s Lunch Break:

The new series:

"These inventions are older than you think

Dry cleaning

In the United States (and elsewhere), black inventors have long been denied patents for their original inventions for racial reasons. Many of us don't realize how many inventions that make our everyday lives easier come from Black inventors, including dry cleaning, developed by Thomas Jennings, the first African American inventor to be granted a patent. Jennings invented dry cleaning in 1821, almost two and a half decades before the first dry cleaning business opened its doors in Paris."

Henry 🦁

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Walls And Future

Ingo pointing at Henry.

Finally it was a sunny day and on the way to the Christmas Market last Friday I could take proper pics of the new thingy that you can enjoy in warm temps from the benches set up front.

Or... go and learn.

This is the heart of the city, where we belong to.

Ingo used google a while ago and found out that our CBD is as big (or small) as Perth´s!

What are the chances?

The protective wall was not needed anymore and became parks in 1800.

(I don´t wanna bore you to death with details, we talk about stones after all).

I assume it was a "tad" higher back in the day...

Henry 🦁 took care of us.

The wall was 1,60m thick and a piece of wood was found:

... from around when Duke Henry the Lion took care of Braunschweig.

They put it here as part of the artwork/installation.

Well, this actually needs no explanation, does it?

They did not ship to Hawaii to get stones, right?!

This is 5 minutes on foot from our home btw.

(Oh, come on, let me brag a bit... I LOVE living here)

The new series:

Irony: I am the dishwasher.

But Ingo promised to make Toast Hawaii in return.

"These inventions are older than you think

Dishwasher

Female inventors and scientists rarely receive due recognition. However, anyone who hates scrubbing dishes has one woman in particular to thank: Josephine Cochrane. In 1886, Cochrane invented the first commercially successful dishwasher. She was tired of her servants breaking dishes while washing dishes and she no longer wanted to do the work herself. Their motivations may be incomprehensible to most of us, but more than a century later we're still enjoying the convenience of their invention, so we really can't complain."

Henry 🦁 still wants to help:

... not only in Braunschweig. Just do, everywhere. And maybe all walls disappear...

Addendum, good ole FB showed me a pic I posted 10 years ago:

No need to raise your finger, Santa (I guess).

Bro was in the crib and I was forced to wear an original Dirndl from Vienna, Austria, ugly socks with Bommel, too. I HATED this.

It is German winter and cold and I wear a short blouse and short skirt.

And that chair, oh, that chair!!!! Dad put it (and his 3 companions) in the attic and they rotted away. I cried, I did.

Glad I found my Mr. Spock-chair in the street.

I sit on "him" right now (yes, chairs are male in German, in case you speak French or such, happy guessing - I forgot. Is it for example le or la livre- I can´t remember).