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** German Chat ** Alle sind willkommen. ** Frühling läßt sein blaues Band ...

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MmeLindt · 10/03/2009 13:11

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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!

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Alle sind willkommen.

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MmeLindt · 25/03/2009 11:36

Frosch
Adding my good wishes, hope that everything goes well.

LOL at my DD, she has just written GPOSAT. I will send some Lindt choccies to anyone who guesses what she meant.

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Frosch · 25/03/2009 11:41

Frosch is back from the krankenhaus and is off the hook for the time being; DD's blood flow is 'adequate' despite my immune system playing up and DH has taken himself off the emergency standby list. Admylin is right; they're fab here. It's something they don't often pick up in the UK and there are horrible stories of ladies losing babies between 36-40 weeks because it just hadn't been picked up. The Klinikum check EVERYTHING.

Mme Lindt; yep, Mum's ironing, it keeps her out of trouble. We're going through the keller this week, sorting out all the clothes we can use for DD and throwing out the rest. If I were back home, I'd pack 'em all up and take them to a charity shop but Germans don't seem to have embraced second-hand shops like wot I do. I've found an Oxfam in Cologne, so I'll try there...

What is a freiluftschule? Is it like camping? It sounds tortuous for this time of year!!

Admylin - which bookshops will you be hitting once you get home? Looking at your profile, you get through books like I do...!

admylin · 25/03/2009 11:45

Great news Frosch.

Well, back home we have a book stall on the market and he will get you any book you ask for - as I have a long list of want-to-reads I will go to him first, then I stand and drool in WHSmiths as a child would stand and drool infront of a sweet shop window trying to decide how many books I can actually fit in my case.

admylin · 25/03/2009 11:47

Freiluftschule (also new to me) is school in the mornings and lunch on site then all afternoon in the forest what ever the weather. Dd had mud up to her knees under her jeans yesterday. They are supposed to do little nature projects and lessns too but up to now they brought in a guinea pig and today they are supposed to be studying ants.

ZZZen · 25/03/2009 11:57

hope she doesn't get sick just before you travel admylin. That'd be a right pain. I think I'd start giving her vitamin c supplements or soemthing, just in case. Or at least a lot of fresh orange juice.

Ants should be interesting. Dd did worms at school last year and came back fascinated by them. She loves worms now. Can't really nachempfinden it myself. They also looked at Kellerassel whatever they are supposed to be and they all love those too now they have studied them a bit.

canella, I'm an old misery guts when it comes to winter weather, I just don't need it but I think your chances of snowball weather are pretty good tbh

Wonder how that 14 year old dd of coffeecrazed is enjoying Munich?

admylin · 25/03/2009 12:01

I should be going out to the bank but I can't face it. It's down the street (it's a long street) and I can't park near it. I would hav eto get my winter coat back out and gloves and a scarf and winter boots back out, I'd shove dall teh winter stuff away.

If I make it to the bank I will get som enurofen and nose spray and a tube of that vitamin gelee. Another 20 Euro gone.

ZZZen · 25/03/2009 12:05

don't know vitamin gelee, used to give dd that vitamin stuff that comes in a big bottle with two dc on the front. Dunno if it does anything but I used to give it to her right through winter.

Probably only helps rot your teeth for all I know

Glad you're ok frosch. Good work getting your mum onto the ironing.

I've been thinking I need a wife really. Preferably one of those 1950's ones who cook, clean, wash, iron and admire you whilst you preen about kind-of-thing. Were there ever really women like that I wonder?

ZZZen · 25/03/2009 12:06

can't believe you put your winter stuff away already admylin. It seems to ALWAYS snow in April

admylin · 25/03/2009 12:08

My gran was one. She told me her routine once, and it made me feel exhausted just listening to her.

During the war she also worked and still had a baking day, a clothes washing day, a big Sunday lunch etc. All without any of the modern appliances we have nowadays. And still had time to put her hair in curlers every night!

ZZZen · 25/03/2009 12:09

that's what I want admylin, one of those

THink dh wouldn't mind either

admylin · 25/03/2009 12:11

Just been looking through old photos of her for ds's family project and she was always so glamourous looking with the 1940's style dresses and I would love the over coat she had with matching suit and her hair always looked as if she'd been to the hairdresser every day.

admylin · 25/03/2009 12:25

Well, I put my really wintery stuff away and had gone onto my wet weather spring time warm stuff! But it's so cold today - I can't go out in my jacket so I'll hav eto get my coat out! I got caught this morning and i was freezing.

Thank goodness I made dd wrap up really warm due to her being full of cold.

ZZZen · 25/03/2009 12:50

my mum never went out anywhere without looking quite smart, also quite grown up. When I watch old films I always think women (and men) looked a lot more adult and better dressed. I supposethey had less clothes and took more care of them. Either that or it was just for the films and in real life they looked no better than people do nowadays?

Frosch · 25/03/2009 13:02

Admylin - I would refuse to do the washing if my DC went to a Freiluftschule. Do you pressure-wash her when she comes home?!

I would love a 1950's Wife. My DH found me a putzhilfe because my English standards of housekeeping are not up there with his mum's. He was very nice about it but sometimes I do feel that being a SAHM means one should be a perfect 1950's Wife.

My DS is also a total snot-machine at the mo. He's constantly rooting around for nase-bohnen and is so triumphant when he finds one. I'm hoping it's just a boy thing...

canella · 25/03/2009 15:06

oh i wish i was as perfect as a 1950's wife!! no chance of that while the internet is around! i'm sat on MN in my joggies and a warm jumper!! not a twinset, lipstick or pearls in site!

AAM - hope your little one is still doing good - never heard of those inhalators but if its helping then it must be ok!

Admylin - we lived in wigan - miles away from being as nice as the lake district!! lived in a lovely street but wigan itself is a dive!!

Frosch - glad your dd is ok and you didnt need the transfusion thing!!

Its snowed all day here - was kind of waiting for it to go off for snowball fights but think i'll be waiting a long time so as soon as i'm done on here i'm off out!!

car not ready till tom - they need to change the front lights and fiddle with the back ones cause the fog light is on the wrong side - not sure who cares about the fog light apart from the TuV man!! Dh was too anxious to ask how much it'd all cost!!

Had a random phonecall this afternoon - bit confusing but dh's best friend in germany has a brother and sister-in-law who live in the UK - i've never met this brother or his wife but know all about them but met 3 of their 5 kids once when the kids were at their grandparents when we were in germany one summer.

So the brother's wife phoned me this afternoon to say one of her german friends and her dh have moved to bad kissingen and she's also a SAHM and did i want her phone number so we could meet up!! just thought it was a really kind thing of her to do! they had lived in NZ for a year so she said she knew how hard it was when your home all day with no social life!! so i'm def going to phone this other woman - hope she's nice cause i've pinned load of hopes on her getting me some kind of life in the day!! since i'm such a shit 1950's wife i need to be out as an excuse why i've not washed the windows!! ha ha!

taipo · 25/03/2009 20:54

Evening all.

No snow here just freezing cold rain and miserable grey skies. I thought I might have been able to put away my thick winter coat by now but no such luck. My feet and legs were so cold last night that I made myself a hot water bottle before I went to bed!

I gave up long ago trying to be the perfect German 1950's Hausfrau. Well, I never really got started tbh. I sometimes pretend when MIL is around as she is the genuine article but she always manages to see through my attempts and makes snidey comments like 'Oh, I haven't got round to cleaning my windows yet either.'

Mummyfor3 · 25/03/2009 22:09

Guten Abend, all,

I am just quietly grinning about the 1950's house wife. Not sure she ever really existed ; sounds like a beast of legend to me. I had realised a long time ago I did not need a DH, but a wife! Although maybe I am actually thinking of a slave ?

Anyway, just checking in (and bumping the thread on my watched ones), am off to bed now.

admylin · 26/03/2009 08:23

Morning everyone.

Canella that was nice of those people to find a contact for you. They will want to keep up their English but a bit of company (as in adult company) keeps you sane.

Did you get your car back? Just dropped our car off for oil change and then they said it would cost 30 Euro extra just to get the summer wheels put back on. Does that not sound alot? It only takes a few minute for each wheel. Anyway has to be done so I don't care but the bummer is that h gave me 100 and it will all come to 105 so I can fork the extra out of my pocket when I go to collect the car tonight(I'm moaning because I'm trying to save every Euro to spend in UK!)

ZZZen · 26/03/2009 08:35

Morgen alleseits

well done getting the car sorted canella. Surely no one cleans their windows when it's snowing though? Or do they? Hope you like those people and have something in common. It is nice to have some adult company I agree with admylin.

How's finks I wonder? She's keeping quiet. Maybe she IS the reincarnation of one of those 1950s Hausfrauen.

ZZZen · 26/03/2009 08:37

I'd be really tempted to call your dh at work and say he'll have to come home and bring another 5 euros because he didn't give you enough fgs

ZZZen · 26/03/2009 08:37

I might even say it would cost an extra 5,21

admylin · 26/03/2009 08:40

I must admit sinced I've cooled it with the neighbour I miss having our cups of tea and talks but it was getting too much - nearly every day. Would be good a couple of times a week though.

In Berlin I had a couple of friends and either the 3 of us or one of them would always have time every school day after drop off. I miss them. Can't wait to get home, constant company if you want it ...3DAYS TO GO!

ZZZen · 26/03/2009 08:41

Have you totally cut the neighbour out of your life then? Did you have a bust up?

admylin · 26/03/2009 08:42

Lol, at calling him. He's gone into his experiment room so he's busy. He also wouldn't get money as he doesn't have the car and his bank is too far away and then too far to bring it to me. I'll tell him tonight and he might pay it back.

admylin · 26/03/2009 08:43

No, we didn't have a bust up but she came to the door a few times and I didn't invite her in so she got the message. She rings once a week now to ask if the dc want to walk the dog with her, sometimes they do but mostly they just got back in from school and are hungry so they can't go.