Britta's Letters from (and sometimes about) Berlin
Monday, 24 September 2018
I promised Geo. the photo of a raindrop
I took this photo on my narrow boat trip in September 2017. Rosemary will instantly see where I found this subject.
A subtle hint:
A hint:
Who got it??
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Thank you - and flowers for all of you!
Hurrah!!!
It works!!!
After I tried out all your advices, (and honestly: I do not know which one helped in the end - I saw stars in front of my overworked eyes) - but the result is here:
Google gave me my identity back!
(I feel a bit as the German philosophy booktitle: "Who am I - and if: how many?")
And I learned something which seems to me to be too profound to be applied only to computers:
"Sometimes it all goes a bit weird for me, but corrects itself later."
Yes - a metapher for Life!!!! So:
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP! Britta XXX
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Hacked?
I wonder (and worry): I answered the comments of Gwil and Rachel - but cannot publish them, and my Google profile is not to be reached (thus I cannot comma on your blogs either). Has anyone here the same problem? And what can I do? Thank you for your help, Britta (hope I can publish this)
Sunday, 2 September 2018
Do less, get more
Yesterday I went to Dussmann in Friedrichstraße - oh no: not a simple bookshop! - it calls itself a "Kulturkaufhaus" - a shop to buy culture, mmmh, mmm, mmh - would be a nice thing for some people in Germany...
It has a special section, the "English Bookshop" - and that most often gives me ideas, and I seldom leave with only one book.
(Nowadays - even if you buy for more than 20 Euros - they give you the book you paid for over the counter, just like that.
Then I put on what I call my Freiherr von Knigge-glance -- very haughty, very severe - and ask: "Will you PLEASE put it into a little paper bag, dear?"
(I had to ask at Peek&Cloppenburg too, where I bought an Armani-dress for summer: they put the dress into my hand and thought that I would walk away with it, just like that!
And if you do not pay attention, they forget to give you the receipt too - I mean: with all the security guards and detectives around: how will you prove you really paid for it??
The book above is a reminder:
spend more time on things you love - and not on chores you think you have to do.
And that reminded me that I love blog-writing (even if I have - as everybody else - little time) - and that I should just try to keep it simple, not being a perfectionist about photos e.g.
So I will give my blog-writing what they call it in modern relationship-babble:
"QUALITY-TIME"
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