Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother,
Mother and Wife of German Descent
I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com
Given the background, it doesn’t come as a surprise. Zelenskyy has previously made political opposition parties illegal and removed all media from Ukraine that is not state-authorized. However, the move to ban Ukraine’s orthodox religion is still a considerable escalation into totalitarian extremes; all supported by the U.S. State Dept.
As Carlson notes in the latter part of his monologue, the insufferable propaganda has enmeshed the Ukrainian face of the western government, “It’s just a grotesque post-modern psy-op, and anyone still falling for this is brain damaged.”
Frans Vandenbosch has actually lived in China for many years and studies their culture. His view of China is very different from the way our media describes China! He reckons our media is totally ignorant about what China is really like. In his opinion and what he observed about the political system in China, he comes to the conclusion, that it is more democratic than our Western democracies!
Dec 2, 2022Ignorance is the root of fear, and fear of China has been raised to a fever pitch in recent years by forces that wish to induce a mis-educated western audience to acquiesce to 1) a new clash of civilizations while 2) shutting the door on what may possibly be the last real opportunity to break the system of hereditary power for many generations yet to come. On Sunday Nov. 27 at 2pm Eastern Time, the Rising Tide Foundation hosted professor Frans Vandenbosch who shed light on the real China and its political system.
We like to have lemon/ginger tea in the morning. A few days ago we went outside for our morning tea. The pot in the middle of the above picture is Peter’s pot for his drinking water. He has to drink each day a minimum of two litres of water to cleanse his bladder!
The dog on this pot is “The Dog on the Tucker Box”
The skin on the peach came off easily. This peach was deliciously juicy.
It was not a very hot morning. So I stayed a bit longer outside after Peter had gone back inside, putting my feet up!
Some hot chillies did survive a number of very hot days quite well.
We had a lot of tomatoes growing. We very much liked the taste of them. Now there are only a few left.
Last Sunday afternoon we listened to some beautiful music:
Although some historians postulated an origin of the Fulani in ancient Egypt or the Upper Nile valley [3], written records suggest that the Fulani spread from West Africa (currently Senegal, Guinea, Mauritania) around 1000 years ago, reaching the Lake Chad Basin 500 years later [4, 5].2 Dec 2019
It looks to me, that some people like to treat me, as though I am not anymore capable of making any decision of my own, meaning they want me to do as they tell me to do.
Well, in case I should have to live a number more years, then most likely, at some stage I do have to be treated like I do need total looking after. And I am sure, once I am that far gone, I am going to accept treatment like this. But really, I would not mind at all to die before I get to that stage!
Why do I feel that I am not that far gone yet? Do I really give other people the impression that I am that far gone already? Or how come, that they insist on treating me like this?
I must admit, when they make me so upset and nervous, I seem not to be able to act normally! My heart starts to race, my breathing gets bad etc. I am so grateful, that most weeks, that is 24/7, I am just on my own. Peace, peace, and I can do as I like. Being alone is nearly always a good thing now.
I can still go for long walks every day, when the weather is good. I would say, on average, I converse with people only for a very limited time. This usually has to be just enough.
On a lot of days I also go without touching someone. But really, more than any touching, I miss that usually there is now nobody actually personally present for some beautiful extended conversations!
Well, I wrote the above a few weeks ago. So, we have December now. Yesterday was the first Saturday of the month. Mark and his mother Merl invited me for lunch in Dapto. After lunch the three of us had coffee on my beautiful deck. It was a very calm, sunny day. All of us enjoyed very much sitting outside. Some of our conversation centered on the above subject, namely how the elderly should be treated and be helped to remain independent for as long as possible. But often they are being treated in a way that makes them become more and more dependent, when really they could be helped to still be totally independent!
It looks to me, that some people like to treat me, as though I am not anymore capable of making any decision of my own, meaning they want me to do as they tell me to do.
Well, in case I should have to live a number more years, then most likely, at some stage I do have to be treated like I do need total looking after. And I am sure, once I am that far gone, I am going to accept treatment like this. But really, I would not mind at all to die before I get to that stage!
Why do I feel that I am not that far gone yet? Do I really give other people the impression that I am that far gone already? Or how come, that they insist on treating me like this?
The soft boiled eggs that Peter cooked for breakfast were perfect. I ate my warmed up crispy bread-roll with the egg, I also had some fresh strawberries with strawberry jam on one half of the bread-roll. And I took all my vitamins. We both also had a great cup of coffee for our breakfast.
At nine o’clock we started watching the Insiders’ program on ABC TV. The politics that were discussed upset me a great deal. I mean I should be used to this sort of political talk by now where everything gets blamed on labor. But somehow it got to me today more than usual. I just could not keep my…
Yesterday, Monday, the 14th of November. Marianne had a few thoughts about intimate relationships between men and women of any age. She was thinking back to the postwar years in Germany when she was just a little girl. There were a lot of war widows at the time. Even as a little girl, she noticed, that for a man who was travelling around a lot because of his job. quite often it was very normal to have a loving widow in every town he visited. And every of these widows would welcome this travelling man with open arms, all too happy giving and receiving lots of sexual pleasures! What could be wrong with that? Really, nothing at all. Wasn’t everyone, who felt like this, entitled to giving and receiving some sexual pleasures? Everybody was just out to enjoy themselves for a little bit. Nobody got hurt. It was a very normal thing to happen at the time. And these women, often war widows, did not mind at all, if their man had other sweethearts in different towns, All these relationships would be sort of in the open, that is everybody was honest about it. No secrets!
Marianne, reflecting on it now, came to the conclusion, that surely if a very considerate and caring travelling man had a sexual relationship with several women within one week or one month, of course this was totally acceptable!
However, it seemed to Marianne, probably none of these women would have accepted a second lover for as long as there was still some involvement with the first lover!
This is just the way it is, thought Marianne. Men and women are very different in this respect. Hardly any women would want to have two lovers at the same time. Whereas a lot of men would just want to be free to be sexually involved with several women at the same time, if there was some opportunity fot this, meaning some women were just agreeable to this!! Since their experience might be, that most women just want their partner to be sexually exclusive, that is to have no other sex partner, these men, that end up getting involved with another woman or several othere women, want to keep it secret! And when the secret is discovered. it is said, the man has been cheating.
On the other hand, Marianne is sure, that once a man falls truly in love with someone. he would not want to involve himself all the way with another partner!
Since yesterday, Saturday, and today, Sunday, Marianne has done a lot of reading. She is reading another novel in large print about relationships! It is written in a style, that very much appeals to her. It might help her in finding the right style for her own writing, she thinks.
Her thoughts go to the sort of novel, that she does want to write. She already made up her mind, what fictional characters, should make an appearance in her novel. Maybe somebody like Jack could be one of the characters. He may just have turned 70, and she could call him John and place him in England. So, the story is, that for some time now John has built up an intimate relationship online with an elderly woman from Scottland. But he is actually refusing to ever meet her in person. However, it turns out, he travels to Scottland quite often to date younger women!
When after a year of communicating online with that elderly woman, it turns out, that he has absolutely no interest in dating her, she decides to break-up with him.
The dog on this pot is “The Dog on the Tucker Box” 
The skin on the peach came off easily. This peach was deliciously juicy. 
It was not a very hot morning. So I stayed a bit longer outside after Peter had gone back inside, putting my feet up! 
Some hot chillies did survive a number of very hot days quite well. 
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