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20 Jul 2016
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
3 Jan 2014
FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE - RANDOM 5 FRIDAY
1. In view of our New Year's party, I did some last shopping bought paper streamers and some other little decorations. The rest of the day I spent with answering New Year wishes ! If all these wishes come true then I will be a lucky girl in 2014.
The next day I went over to Dominique to help her to prepare her living room for the party ! We had a lot of fun doing it, her little 3 year old granddaughter Lucy "helped" too, I think she had never seen that in her life !
2.
For the buffet we all had to bring one plate and our drinks. I prepared salmon sandwiches which I cut in triangles of course supervised by Arthur who fortunately had got his share of salmon before, so that I could work in peace ! I was quiet happy with the result. I had also bought a "Pain surprise" (litteraly translated Surprise Bread) a loaf of bread which had been emptied so that only the crust remains and which is then filled with all kinds of little sandwiches.
3.
At 8 pm, when everybody had arrived I quickly took a picture of the untouched buffet ! There was my "Surprise bread", a very yummy potatoe salad, a terrine of smoked trout (the white circle) slices of meatloaf and Hungarian/German potatoe pancakes which Ilona had prepared. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of the delicious apple cake and the Tiramisu Chantal had made herself.
and here we are, all my friends Dominique, Ilona, Chantal, Nicole and Marianne who is also German. We are all 70 to 76, except Dominique and Chantal ! For once Mr. G. joined the party and therefore I had asked to make a picture of us ... in memory !
Dominique lit the fire in the chimney and dog Charly and little Kiwi were happy to have such a lot of company. Of course they wandered from one person to the other in the hope that they also got some of the food. There was an other man too, a friend of Mr. G, the husband of Marianne. So they had to endure 7 chatting women, but from time to time they also managed to place a word !
Then came the moment where we did the Lead pouring Bleigiessen, a German New Year tradition. Everybody got a piece of lead in the shape of a clover leaf, anchor, etc, which was put in a special spoon, held over a candle and when it had melted the person with the spoon throw it into cold water. Ilona was fascinated by this game and we all tried to see what figure had come out, she had an abstract looking dolphin and I a bird with strange wings. Now we have to find out what that means. I don't remember what the others had. Mr. G. made raindrops !
At midnight we all lifted our glass of champagne and wished each other a happy New Year. Poor Charlie trembled like a leaf although the 9 of us tried to comfort him but he is so afraid of fireworks. Poor boy. Unfortunately no lap was big enough for him to use, but he tried !
At 2 am we were tired, and they all went home, Mr. G. and I helped Dominique to put the furniture in place, then we left too. What a nice New Year's Eve !
5. Now all the festivities are over and we can relax again. That's what I did the whole day, I just went to Dominique to put her pictures on my USB stick, then I was busy with my photos after having watched a nice crime story and a life series called "That's your history", where adopted children tried to find out their biological parents, sometimes with a disastrous result.
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The next day I went over to Dominique to help her to prepare her living room for the party ! We had a lot of fun doing it, her little 3 year old granddaughter Lucy "helped" too, I think she had never seen that in her life !
2.
For the buffet we all had to bring one plate and our drinks. I prepared salmon sandwiches which I cut in triangles of course supervised by Arthur who fortunately had got his share of salmon before, so that I could work in peace ! I was quiet happy with the result. I had also bought a "Pain surprise" (litteraly translated Surprise Bread) a loaf of bread which had been emptied so that only the crust remains and which is then filled with all kinds of little sandwiches.
3.
At 8 pm, when everybody had arrived I quickly took a picture of the untouched buffet ! There was my "Surprise bread", a very yummy potatoe salad, a terrine of smoked trout (the white circle) slices of meatloaf and Hungarian/German potatoe pancakes which Ilona had prepared. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of the delicious apple cake and the Tiramisu Chantal had made herself.
and here we are, all my friends Dominique, Ilona, Chantal, Nicole and Marianne who is also German. We are all 70 to 76, except Dominique and Chantal ! For once Mr. G. joined the party and therefore I had asked to make a picture of us ... in memory !
Dominique lit the fire in the chimney and dog Charly and little Kiwi were happy to have such a lot of company. Of course they wandered from one person to the other in the hope that they also got some of the food. There was an other man too, a friend of Mr. G, the husband of Marianne. So they had to endure 7 chatting women, but from time to time they also managed to place a word !
Then came the moment where we did the Lead pouring Bleigiessen, a German New Year tradition. Everybody got a piece of lead in the shape of a clover leaf, anchor, etc, which was put in a special spoon, held over a candle and when it had melted the person with the spoon throw it into cold water. Ilona was fascinated by this game and we all tried to see what figure had come out, she had an abstract looking dolphin and I a bird with strange wings. Now we have to find out what that means. I don't remember what the others had. Mr. G. made raindrops !
At midnight we all lifted our glass of champagne and wished each other a happy New Year. Poor Charlie trembled like a leaf although the 9 of us tried to comfort him but he is so afraid of fireworks. Poor boy. Unfortunately no lap was big enough for him to use, but he tried !
At 2 am we were tired, and they all went home, Mr. G. and I helped Dominique to put the furniture in place, then we left too. What a nice New Year's Eve !
5. Now all the festivities are over and we can relax again. That's what I did the whole day, I just went to Dominique to put her pictures on my USB stick, then I was busy with my photos after having watched a nice crime story and a life series called "That's your history", where adopted children tried to find out their biological parents, sometimes with a disastrous result.
more participants at Susanne at Living to tell the Story.
More participants here at A rural Journal.
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
6 Nov 2013
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
25 Sept 2013
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
1 May 2013
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
13 Mar 2013
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
16 Feb 2013
NEW GRANDMAS
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
27 Jan 2013
AN OLD ADVENTURE IN 1963
In 1963 when I was 20 I worked for a company in Brussels which made magnetic colorful letters. Each year they exposed in Nürnberg at a worldwide famous toy fair in Germany.
My job was to translate into French and to look cute and friendly and keep the stand where our products were shown. I was alone and hungry, it was around noon, my boss and another coworker had gone for lunch, but the hall was still packed with people. I took my sandwich out of my bag and put it on the floor so that nobody could see it and from time to time I looked around, bent down and took a bite.
A few stands further I heard people laughing and laughing and told myself that they must show something very funny and that's why probably I had nobody at our stand.
Then I noticed that one of my nylon stockings was loose (there were no panties yet) and had to be fixed to the garters. As only my top could be seen, I pulled up my skirt and fixed the clip. Another bout of loud laughter. I became curious and as my stocking was fixed I walked over there to have a look and to find out why people were laughing so much and evidently were very amused.
When I approached the laughter even increased and I didn't understand a thing. And then I saw what happened ! The exposed object was a video camera (very rare at that time) directed right to my stand and you could even see what happened behind the counter ! Now I understood why there was so much laughter, everybody had seen me eating under the counter and also my legs while I fixed my stocking !
What should I do ? getting a red face and look ashamed or laughing ? I preferred to laugh with them !
My job was to translate into French and to look cute and friendly and keep the stand where our products were shown. I was alone and hungry, it was around noon, my boss and another coworker had gone for lunch, but the hall was still packed with people. I took my sandwich out of my bag and put it on the floor so that nobody could see it and from time to time I looked around, bent down and took a bite.
A few stands further I heard people laughing and laughing and told myself that they must show something very funny and that's why probably I had nobody at our stand.
Then I noticed that one of my nylon stockings was loose (there were no panties yet) and had to be fixed to the garters. As only my top could be seen, I pulled up my skirt and fixed the clip. Another bout of loud laughter. I became curious and as my stocking was fixed I walked over there to have a look and to find out why people were laughing so much and evidently were very amused.
When I approached the laughter even increased and I didn't understand a thing. And then I saw what happened ! The exposed object was a video camera (very rare at that time) directed right to my stand and you could even see what happened behind the counter ! Now I understood why there was so much laughter, everybody had seen me eating under the counter and also my legs while I fixed my stocking !
What should I do ? getting a red face and look ashamed or laughing ? I preferred to laugh with them !
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
9 Jan 2013
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
8 Dec 2012
I BECAME A VIP - FUNNY SKETCHES
After a nice day at the beach, before supper I was invited together with my friends by the management team of the Hotel as a VIP guest ! Maybe I had been already vip to somebody in my life, but never a VIP ! It was for guests who had been staying in the hotel more than 3 times. The most faithful VIP (a German retired couple) had been in this hotel for 15 years ! What a good publicity ! We got drinks and snacks and a speach in English, German and Russian !
We congratulated the chef for his delicious kitchen and then we also talked about what was good and what had to be improved. When the manager came to sit at our table I of course complained about the high internet connection costs and that for such a hotel it should be a free service, of course he said yes, yes, to everything, also that people put things other then the hotel towels on the beach beds, to get the best places ! Of course he would also solve this problem. This morning nothing had changed ;) ! Maybe next year !
While I am at my computer Dominique and Nicole play cards and use the sugar packages as money ! You should have seen the face of the waiter when he saw all the suger on the table !
After supper we went to the animation team show of the hotel. This time there were again sketches involving the guests.
A "Miss Hotel" should be selected. From all nationalities present, there was an English girl from London, an Ukrainian girl on honeymoon, a German, a Russian girl and Dominique the only French speaking girl in the whole place !
First there was a "catwalk" of all participants. Dominique performs as "femme fatale", then she had to carry a ping pong ball between her legs and imitate a chicken and then let drop the "egg" in a glass ! The public screamed of laughter.
Then the girls had to collect clothes, underwear and shoes, as many as possible from the public !
A shoe was worth 50 points, a T-shirt I00 and a bra 200 ! it was hilarious ! Many women gave their bras to increase the points. A German girl gave hers for Dominique so she had more points ! In the last picture you see Nicole taking her T-shirt back ! The winner was the English girl from London ! She was so funny !
It was then quiet difficult to put the thing on again !
We had a lot of fun and before going to bed, we drank a Karkade tea to relax from all this laughing !
We congratulated the chef for his delicious kitchen and then we also talked about what was good and what had to be improved. When the manager came to sit at our table I of course complained about the high internet connection costs and that for such a hotel it should be a free service, of course he said yes, yes, to everything, also that people put things other then the hotel towels on the beach beds, to get the best places ! Of course he would also solve this problem. This morning nothing had changed ;) ! Maybe next year !
While I am at my computer Dominique and Nicole play cards and use the sugar packages as money ! You should have seen the face of the waiter when he saw all the suger on the table !
After supper we went to the animation team show of the hotel. This time there were again sketches involving the guests.
A "Miss Hotel" should be selected. From all nationalities present, there was an English girl from London, an Ukrainian girl on honeymoon, a German, a Russian girl and Dominique the only French speaking girl in the whole place !
First there was a "catwalk" of all participants. Dominique performs as "femme fatale", then she had to carry a ping pong ball between her legs and imitate a chicken and then let drop the "egg" in a glass ! The public screamed of laughter.
Then the girls had to collect clothes, underwear and shoes, as many as possible from the public !
A shoe was worth 50 points, a T-shirt I00 and a bra 200 ! it was hilarious ! Many women gave their bras to increase the points. A German girl gave hers for Dominique so she had more points ! In the last picture you see Nicole taking her T-shirt back ! The winner was the English girl from London ! She was so funny !
It was then quiet difficult to put the thing on again !
We had a lot of fun and before going to bed, we drank a Karkade tea to relax from all this laughing !
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
27 May 2012
MY HOROSCOPE OF YESTERDAY
This was my horoscope of yesterday :
It's a lovely day. The air is fresh and clean. Confidence is high, and you feel as special as you truly are.
You radiate like warm sunshine.
Perhaps you have invented or created a thing of beauty that others want and your art is on display.
You may find yourself full of passion, enjoying the people that have come to either see your work or share in a common experience. You may also spend a great deal of time beautifying your surroundings at home with colors and art. . Because of financial gains recently, you could fall into a new way of thinking.
Indeed it was a lovely day, the air was full of cement dust and rather dirty coming from the tiles of the entrance and the patio with a not so soft wind which blew clouds through the air. My confidence was maybe high before I started cleaning, and I really felt special in my dirty jeans and T-shirt armed with bucket and sponge. I didn't radiate like warm sunshine, I was red like a tomatoe and sweating !
I have invented to dust the plants and flowers with a static duster, so that they became green and red again which indeed showed that my art was on display (the duster was yellow). I couldn't find any passion for cleaning in me, but I enjoyed the people who came by to pity me about my hard work. They didn't share a common experience, but they chatted with me about the last events in our street, which was a good excuse to do nothing and just rest.
This was the great deal of time I spent to beautify our surroundings not with colors and art but with with a duster, broom and bucket. I looked in the whole house to find our financial gains, but couldn't find nothing else but invoices.
Now I think over where the money is although this is not a new way of thinking.
See my horoscope was right !
My horoscope
The truth
It's a lovely day. The air is fresh and clean. Confidence is high, and you feel as special as you truly are.
You radiate like warm sunshine.
Perhaps you have invented or created a thing of beauty that others want and your art is on display.
You may find yourself full of passion, enjoying the people that have come to either see your work or share in a common experience. You may also spend a great deal of time beautifying your surroundings at home with colors and art. . Because of financial gains recently, you could fall into a new way of thinking.
Indeed it was a lovely day, the air was full of cement dust and rather dirty coming from the tiles of the entrance and the patio with a not so soft wind which blew clouds through the air. My confidence was maybe high before I started cleaning, and I really felt special in my dirty jeans and T-shirt armed with bucket and sponge. I didn't radiate like warm sunshine, I was red like a tomatoe and sweating !
I have invented to dust the plants and flowers with a static duster, so that they became green and red again which indeed showed that my art was on display (the duster was yellow). I couldn't find any passion for cleaning in me, but I enjoyed the people who came by to pity me about my hard work. They didn't share a common experience, but they chatted with me about the last events in our street, which was a good excuse to do nothing and just rest.
This was the great deal of time I spent to beautify our surroundings not with colors and art but with with a duster, broom and bucket. I looked in the whole house to find our financial gains, but couldn't find nothing else but invoices.
Now I think over where the money is although this is not a new way of thinking.
See my horoscope was right !
My horoscope
The truth
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
15 Apr 2012
SOME SUGGESTIONS
On a Belgian webside for children, the children were asked to send in what silly things they had done last week. It was very interesting so I translated it for you so that you can read this to your children or grandchildren :
- I put a screwdriver in the plug of our living room and blow all fuses of the building
- We picked up dog poops and put them at a witches front door and waited that she steps in
- I put glue on the chair of my teacher
- I invited a friend and we painted my room, I don't know why my parents went beserk
- I put a little firework in our open fireplace for New Year's eve and it exploded when dad lighted the wood.
- I dropped a jerrycan of oil in the garage and dad slipped out and felt on his bottom
- I laughed loud in religion, because my neighbor had photos of naked women
- I put the fish bowl on the plate warmer because the water was so cold, I don't know what happened, but all 3 of them died.
- I wanted to ride the car of my dad and suddenly it went off in our garage door
- We put the skeleton in our English teachers wardrobe. She got histerical when it fell on her
- When we were at the beach I shot on topless women with my waterpistol, it was so funny when they turned around and I could see their boobs.
- I put a screwdriver in the plug of our living room and blow all fuses of the building
- We picked up dog poops and put them at a witches front door and waited that she steps in
- I put glue on the chair of my teacher
- I invited a friend and we painted my room, I don't know why my parents went beserk
- I put a little firework in our open fireplace for New Year's eve and it exploded when dad lighted the wood.
- I dropped a jerrycan of oil in the garage and dad slipped out and felt on his bottom
- I laughed loud in religion, because my neighbor had photos of naked women
- I put the fish bowl on the plate warmer because the water was so cold, I don't know what happened, but all 3 of them died.
- I wanted to ride the car of my dad and suddenly it went off in our garage door
- We put the skeleton in our English teachers wardrobe. She got histerical when it fell on her
- When we were at the beach I shot on topless women with my waterpistol, it was so funny when they turned around and I could see their boobs.
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
19 Feb 2012
MY TODAY's HOROSCOPE
My horoscope for today says that :
This is a bipolar day -- though it's pretty likely to be stuck at one pole for most of it! If you find things start to crash around you, it's best to just call it quits and wait.
The pole must be my computer and and as suggested I sit here and wait for the crash.
Another horoscope for the same day found out that :
You're finding fault with yourself and everyone else today, and it isn't fun for anyone. Where is this grumpy mood coming from? Inspect your feelings.
So what I will do, is inspecting my feelings at the computer while waiting that it crushes.
No wonder that I would be grumpy when this happens !
See horoscopes say the truth ! You just have to do what they say.
This is a bipolar day -- though it's pretty likely to be stuck at one pole for most of it! If you find things start to crash around you, it's best to just call it quits and wait.
The pole must be my computer and and as suggested I sit here and wait for the crash.
Another horoscope for the same day found out that :
You're finding fault with yourself and everyone else today, and it isn't fun for anyone. Where is this grumpy mood coming from? Inspect your feelings.
So what I will do, is inspecting my feelings at the computer while waiting that it crushes.
No wonder that I would be grumpy when this happens !
See horoscopes say the truth ! You just have to do what they say.
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
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