Streupflicht und Schneeschaufel

[finknottle]

Thanks Gabster for the inspiration for the thread!

Add your resolutions here & I can slip alongside and pretend I'll make some too.
Still too fragile - my sleep patterns go haywire when I'm home, stay up till 1 or 2am, then awake at 5am (6 here, usual flipping school time) then I come back & keep crashing on the sofa at 10pm and wake up at 4 bright & breezy.

We have snow, very pretty and h is off till Weds so am pushing him out for Streupflicht, bartered it for a fry-up with real English bacon, hmmmmmm.
Forecast is for -12C to -14C tonight - and when the children go back to school on Thursday. Yikes.

lot of dead piggies on the thread at the moment

I mean the bacon butties, the Spanferkel and the pork with Blaukraut, the Würste. I like pork but not any form of cabbage. I suppose at least Germans try to disguise it a bit by colouring it and cooking it with other ingredients which I suppose beats boiling it. Think I can live out teh rest of my life happily without eating any more cabbage though. Pork sounds a lot better than Schweinefleisch though, doesn't it?

Yes, let's have a bright and shiney new thread.

Isthe education system in Austria vastly different to Germany? Wonder if he wants to stay within the German speaking world/working environment, Austria might suit you?

No thanks - I want to be rid of German, German Märchen, German verbs, declinations and all!

verstehe

I was wondering about the thread title, if maybe alot of German or living in Germany MNers don't know we're here. Maybe we we need a more'come on over..'title? Can't think of one though

you think we need a stronger presence?!

Have to get ready, go to the hairdressers. Always dress up a bit for the hairdressers in the hope that if I arrive looking good, they'll put more effort into it so I leave looking good.

NOt sure if it works. I'm a bit wary of hairdressrs having had some dire experiences in the past

I've wondered whether that would work too, ZZZen. You know, if you go really dressed up and put on a really confident air then they'll think twice about doing a rush job on your hair.

Will have a think about the new thread title.

Morning

er, well afternoon.

I had some visitors here this morning so am a bit behind myself.

Admylin
I do think that the time is coming soon for your DC to need a settled life. Moving aroudn during secondary school age is not really recommended in Germany. Very unsettling and difficult to come to terms with new school and different education systems depending on the bundesland.

Thread title needs to be something German and about Spring. Did we have "Der Lenz ist da" last year?

Zzzen, just thinking strength in numbers, more moral support and mutual sympathy! No I just noticed a couple of times we 'found' people on MN who didn't know about the German thread and I love it when frogs and co come on and give us the Bestätigung that it's not just us imagining these strange things, they also happen to Germans (thinking purple dog etc!)

Did the hairdresser do what you wanted?

Thread title suggestion:

"Fruehling laesst sein blaues Band wieder flattern durch die Luefte"

Did this poem in German lessons once Emanka!

Frühling läßt sein blaues Band
Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte
Süße, wohlbekannte Düfte
Streifen ahnungsvoll das Land
Veilchen träumen schon,
Wollen balde kommen
Horch, von fern ein leiser Harfenton!
Frühling, ja du bist's!
Dich hab ich vernommen!

Was OK but when I see the likes of Goethe and Schiller (which my dc would have to study if they stay in Germany) I worry!

I have just been looking at Frühlings Gedichte. I like this one

GLEICH UND GLEICH

Ein Blumenglöckchen
Vom Boden hervor
War früh gesprosset
In lieblichem Flor;
Da kam ein Bienchen
Und naschte fein -
Die müssen wohl beide
Für einander sein.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Evening all.

Sorry to hear about the weekend with the MIL Taipo. My mum is the original MIL from Hell, so I have oodles of sympathy.

Admylin - talk about feeling unstable. I would be worried about moving DCs so close to final exams but then if they are coping well with it ..... Is it just that your DH has the roaming bug do you think? I know my DH has - when we moved into this place we were laughing because we had been together 6yrs and moved 6 times!!!

Fink, sorry to hear about the crappiest start to the day award. I might qualify for the "best start to the day" award though. Overslept and was only woken by DS gently babbling at 7.45am - a full hour later than he normally wakes! Oh bliss thy name is a long awaited lay-in.

Unfortunately, he slept late because he is not well, slept 2.5 hrs lunch-time (usually only sleeps 1.5hrs) and has gone down early tonight too, poor little soldier. Hoping he gets over it before Thursday or we may have to cancel the flights.

Getting my haircut tomorrow and hoping to finish off the last of the important packing (that I dont trust H with) so I can enjoy my last day with H on Wednesday. Unfortunately, things seem to keep getting delayed and now looks like not going to see DH for 2 weeks.

Gabster
XX fingers that your DS is better soon.

Finknottle
How is your wee man?

He's fighting fit again, thanks MmeLindt. Whatever it was, it knocked him for 6 though, took a whole week to recover (not aided by mountains of schoolwork) and this weekend he was indeed rather wee and quiet.
All change now though, he was 10 yesterday and got a whopping bike and a dry suit. Not that the latter was a birthday present, he needs it for sailing and s1 got one too But it was exciting and he got new boots & gloves too and as he is, insisted on wearing the lot (not the gloves) to do his homework in and well into the early evening. Was rather a rush when he needed to pee to get the dry suit off, lol.
We are taking 10 of his friends swimming on Sunday - so much easier than the old days of doing a knight or pirate party and making things, decorating the house, inventing games, having a horde of excited boys charging through the house & then needing industrial quantities of wine to recover from it all.
I like the idea of a poetic title. Someone choose one - I dunno if it's just me but I find the thread easier to find when it's in German, it leaps out.
Will not be around all for the rest of the week, have stacks of paperwork to do, school appts and 3 (weep) evening appts. Hope when I return, spring will well and truly have sprung.
Gabster - Hope your last days here go smoothly, and don't abandon us once you're back in the UK Anyway, we'll be counting on you to tell us how inferior the Nürnberger sausages in Aldi UK are...

Morning. I am so tired today, eyes are all sore and red. In the middle of the night the neighbour's phone started to ring, it must be plugged in on the wall right next to the head end of our bed and it woke me. It rang and rang and rang. I thought everyone had answering machines or set ups nowadays. Obviously our neighbour has not. It stopped then after 10 minutes, I was just dropping off again - it started again. It went on for hours and the neighour sleeps right at the other end with 3 doors closed between him and his study. I debated getting up and ringing his doorbell then dashing back in my door just to wake him but anyway, great night, we were both exhausted this morning.

TheGabster, I don't think H has a roaming bug really, it has all just sort of happened and we haven't really planned our life or future long term which we must do - have to start sorting it out as it's definately not ideal for the dc to live this way. I know that nowadays you have to be flexible and up to now h has taken the first job offered to him , no big choice in that.

admylin - what a nightmare. Hopefully you´re catching up on some sleep while the dc are at school.

The Gabster - hope ds is feeling better. I have to say you sound remarkably calm considering you´re leaving in a couple of days.

Sorry I´m no good at new thread titles - I´ll leave it to the more creative amongst us.

I know, TheGabster is going to be my Vorbild next time I have to move! Last time we had to move I was on here crying my eyes out every other day!! Could have something to do with moving back home though, I think I'd be happy to go through it all again if it was to go back to UK.

Well, I did not think I was that calm (maybe you have to check with my DH on that one), but I suppose you are right. No complete meltdowns/crying episodes ... as yet. I suppose I am just "coping" with everything I have to at the moment to get it done. I am one of those people who when it is all over and everything I need to do has been sorted, then it all hits me!

Glad your LO is better Fink.

Admylin - I would write a letter to next door if it happened again. We had problems when we lived in the town centre with a neighbour who would get in from work at 1am, put his TV on and fall sleep with it blaring until 4am. Nedless to say, it was right next to our heads/bed (soooo know how you feel). We wrote him a letter in the end and it did stop (eventually).

Did you get some rest, Admylin? How annoying, I wonder if someone was trying to send a fax and had it on automatic wahlwiederholung (that is one of those words that I never learnt in English, probably because I left the country before that was possible)

redial?

I like the poetic thread title, shall we go with the band one?

Just waiting on my guest arriving, not met her before so will be interesting.

I'm pretty easy on the thread title thing. However, if as admylin says, we want the thread to be more accessible and attract more people to it who may be living in German speaking countries or have German connections but not speak the language, we may need an English thread title

Neues Thread

Oops, ZZzen, Xposted there. Have a look at the new thread title, but if you want to change it to English then we can.

LOL

well done ML, no I think it's fine because it begins : German chat.

You may have some people reaching for a strong cuppa and a dictionary though!