R.Marx

@Swede1952@universeodon.com it’s really picturesque. Looks kind of sad though, but beautiful.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com as they do have a history and still mean sth to you, ‘talk’ to you, it’s probably best to take them out of their frames and collect them in a box.
This way they’ll take up less space but you can still look at them (before deposing). I am keeping and storing too. Seems I can’t say good-bye 🙄

@Swede1952@universeodon.com it surely was! We even climbed trees without parents fainting for fear. This was the era before insurance companies took over (of course, because the comfort of relative safety is bound to have side effects)

@Swede1952@universeodon.com I’m really trying to stop but there’s always the one item which is absolutely needful. Or seems to be…
When clearing my mom’s home after she died, I made a mental note NOT to confront my kids with the same load. And I was quite successful. But I should have stopped buying new ones. …

@Swede1952@universeodon.com It’s the same with cooking. Bought another pan today (I do own 6 already). But this one is special, it can go into my oven and that means I can cook Tarte Tatin without lending a pan! I’m really delighted about my purchase, still … well it’s yet another item in my cupboards 😬, though I’ve been trying to reduce. And to be honest, I did own seven. Forgot one . …

@Swede1952@universeodon.com Nice to to read: The dogs took YOU for a walk. . Sometimes it fehlt the same for me/us😁, but no matter who’s taking the lead, it’s always great to walk with a dog

@Swede1952@universeodon.com We don’t have grey squirrels here normally. They’re invasive, as it seems, and when they appear, the red squirrels are going to die out, due to a virus (?) the grey ones spread. Or maybe it’s because they’re bigger. Someone introduced a couple of grey ones in Italy years ago. Since then, they are spreading. Not really good, as it serms.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com yep, I had to do this for a while. Quite stressful. 🙄

@Swede1952@universeodon.com 🤣I tried using it, but we didn’t fit together, so to speak. Quite confusing: Did I put the right ones in the right box & such. I switched to taking them as if I was young 🥳. Then again, I only take pills in the mornings. Easy. Whatever I need to be able to sleep isn’t what doctors can subscribe here.
No suspender for those 😁

@Swede1952@universeodon.com I agree. Retirement makes it possible to have special days on any day of the week. (One shouldn’t exaggerate, though - otherwise it wouldn’t be special anymore). But I do love the freedom to choose 😁

@Swede1952@universeodon.com true - not all of us have come a long way…

@Swede1952 maybe it depends on which dictionary you use or what kind of information you look for

@Swede1952@universeodon.com when I was in 7th grade, we had to buy a dictionary (Oxford) and were instructed, what the signs and abbreviations meant. But we don’t teach this anymore, cause everybody just googles words. Which leader you without the benefit of what kind of word it is and how it’s commonly used.
So there has been more info before but it’s faster accessible with Google now.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com 🤣🤣

@Swede1952@universeodon.com well, I do live dictionairies. But surely there’s a lot of people who don’t know how to use it anymore.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com you’re right, it’s a riddle of sorts. Cause being poor is in itself not connected to being ‘dirty’. Maybe some kind of : ‘nobody cares about me so I don’t care about whatever it is neither’. Who knows.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com the question is: would they do so in their own garden? I guess they wouldn’t. It’s just in public spaces that ppl don’t care. Obviously thinking that ‘somebody’ will pick it up. Strange mindset.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com it’s the same phenomenon over here. Sad.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com you should . One can try at least. I’ll join the “Omas gegen Rechts” (grannies against right wing")" tomorrow. It’s a club kind of, to spare our grandchildren from horrors our parents have seen . I’ll do my very best.

@Swede1952@universeodon.com I can’t put into words what I think about politics right now.
How long and with such losses people fought to achieve democracy. And now…