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[ZZZen]

reden wir weiter...

That's great I'll go and seek out that thread! Thanks too Mme Lindt - it sounds like that part should be relatively easy. Bis spaeter...

you know one of the funniest things about FIL (RIP) gracelo was that although he was into all this mumbo-jumbo stuff he was a physicist and worked in atomic research. He was adament there was no God but apparently he was full of mysterious supernatural powers and so on.

ok bis später then. Stay on this thread though. I'm not trying to kick you out! I think you could all enjoy two years in Berlin. Two years is quite a nice period of time to get to know a place without it jading on you.

Do you know , I really had to think about Domade. Sad, isn't it? Obviously I need some more coffee.

stickylittlefingers - I think this is the thread that Zzzen is refering to.

I know what you mean about having loads of plugs around. It's bad enough now with our 4 mobile chargers, dc's game console chargers and then the battery charger , the digital camera has it's own charger, blimmin cables and plugs everywhere!

The swiss are homeopathic/natural stuff mad too though, worse than the germans ime. I remember once ds had D & v. my neighbour came round, nodded sympathetically, said her dss had had it too & said she'd had a great deal of success treating them with pendulums! I really didn't know how to reply.

Another time ds was playing at another neighbours house when he had ear ache (-15 outside and refused to wear a hat). Came round to find him lying on her settee groaning with really stinky onions wrapped in a sodden tea towel placed on his ear. The stench was awful. I gave him a spoomnful of calpol (and a shower) and he was right as rain. silly bint. she was horrified and told me she didn't agree with giving such strong medecines to children! (he was 7 and it was calpol from 3 months)

must go

That wrapping (chopped I think) onion in a teatowel and placing it on the ear is in my Kinderkrankheiten book Ernest.

Thanks hupa. Wish I could find my toolbar again. Wah.... I must have made it disappear but I don't know how I did that. Hopefully she doesn't find our thread of doom though. Mind you it ahs been very quiet on there lately, hasn't it?

Ernest, we had the same thing at Christmas, dd complained about earache and was crying. It was Sunday afternoon and shops and Apotheken closed, so my sister rings all her friends with little children to find some Calpol but all we got offered were homeopathic remedies and explanations on how to do a Zwiebelpaeckchen. We then went to the emergency Apotheke and got painkillers and ear and nose drops and loads of those little Traubezuckersweets as freebies.

Zzen, it frustrates me even more when scientists believe in this.

Well I'm not going to be on the thread of doom now ZZZen, or I will only go on it if anyone has asked something! I used to sometimes think I was doing alleinunterhaltung on there with all our problems! We're so looking forward to getting to school in UK. Dd found out yesterday that her new school rule is that along with the uniform, she has to wear black shoes. Her cousin said but some dc wear black trainers and get away with it! Anyway, we'll maybe try and get her some black shoes here before we go and after that it'll have to be trips to Clarks I guess.

some of the uniforms in British schools are so unbelievably ugly though. I think if I had not lived in Germany and experienced schools without uniforms, I would not have questioned them but honestly now I wonder why any girl has to wear a TIE to school and how comfortable and practical is a blazer really. Not to mention silly boater type hats that fall off if you run and all the rest of it. I don't mind them all but the material is often not really child-friendly either.

(Not meaning to put you off there admylin, just came to mind)

The secondary has a blazer but they are quite nice and practical as my niece showed me how many pens, pencils and lip glosses she could fit in her inside pocket! Ties too, and the fashion goe sfrom wearing them as thin as possible at the top or wide as possible, depends how you tie it! What fun! School dc go to all sorts of lengths to somehow look different even though they have uniforms on!

Primary wil be a soft burgundy coloured sweatshirt with the school emblem and black trousers or skirt and white polo shirts. Funny to get used to is the strict PE uniforms though, I'd blocked those out of my mind I think - little pleated tennis skirts and matching knickers, knee socks and hockey tops and then hockey boots with the studs on, football boots for boys etc.

I really hope your dc will be happier at school there admylin. How are you feeling about it atm, about staying at your dp's for awhile and all the rest of it? Pretty good?

To be honest, I'm not thinking that far yet, I just want out!

My DD is very jealous of UK kids who get to wear uniform. In fact, she asked me to buy her a blue checked dress from M&S the last time we were in Scotland. They were reduced so I did. She loves wearing it. AIBU to just buy 10 of them so I don't have the "What shall I wear today dilemma anymore?"

ok fair enoubh!

Btw admylin can you help me out with famous people from India? We looked at Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Asoka and Buddha but tbh I'm a bit stumped. Dd wants to learn more about India and read about famous people. Can't really think off-hand of anyone. Can you?

Zzzen, that's as maybe, but he stank and it didn't help, whereas 1 teasoon of calpol had him up and running straight away. He also believed me and wore a hat next time

I don't understand how people run about in German winters with no hat on. At times I even have 3 on (1 on top ofthe other)

Another thing I'm looking forward to is the mild UK climate, not such scorching unbearable heat in summer and no such thing as minus 14 in winter. And that little bit of rain won't bother me, my skin is waterproof! Just tell me if I'm getting on your nerves.

oops tipo there. I have 2 on when it's superkalt -15 or 20 but I have not yet tried wearing 3!

Well have had a nice lazy morning but I stupidly agreed to have the whole tennis gang round tonight because the venue my old coach booked fell through. Have to get some stuff done now though.

so nice to see you chirpy admylin but I have to get cracking or I'll never be done on time!

I did always used to love my school uniform. Navy skirst, white shirt, navy jumper, te and blazer with the trimmings in the suffragette colours green white and violet.. a real feminist school

Mother Theresa was albanian btw....

I need to get the dc's savings from Berliner Sparkasse, this is what teh woman wrote to me:

'...können sie uns auch formlos einen Antrag und die Sparkassenbücher zur Auflösung und Übertragung auf Ihr Girokonto bei der Berliner Sparkasse senden. Der Antrag muß von beiden Elternteilen unterschrieben sein.'

So anyone have a clue what I should write in this formlos thing?

ZZZen how about Rabindranath Tagore, poet and nobel prize winner.

Or Phoolan Devi the bandit queen. Great true story about a girl who grew up to be the leader of a gang of bandits and later reformed and became a politician. Died in 2001 I think. There's a great film about her life but nothing for your dd to watch as she was married off very young and raped and badly treated then as bandit queen she took revenge on everyone who had done horrible things to her.

Mother Teresa took up Indian citizenship though ernest later on.

Tagore, thanks admylin. That's good. Never heard of Phoolan Devi, will ahve a google but think I'll need serio0s editing of any material. Sounds like an interesting woman.