Happy Easter to all of you!
Since two days I'm back to pastoral life in Bavaria (after 6 days in teeming Berlin). I was greeted like a pop-star: the triplets stood on platform One (there is only one, but with Teutonic thoroughness it bears a signpost)
You remember the shrieking of teenage girls when the Beatles appeared somewhere? Well - my own fan club (by now three years and 8 month old) stood there in a variation on pink and filled the air with so loud joy in the exact Beatle Britta-mania that the whole village sighed: "Oh - SHE is back!"
The Landfrauen (equivalent to Women's Institutes) have decorated the village water well - first time since the pandemic that they could do it in the traditional way.
Hahaha - so I have to leave you for a while ...rumble...mumble...rustle...
I stood outside the Beatles' hotel in Melbourne in June 1964, and although I was not a screamer, it was a VERY loud and exciting time. If your fan club welcomed you like that, you are a very very lucky human being :)
ReplyDeleteWow, Helen, so you saw the Beatles "live"!
DeleteMy fan club gives its very best :-)
Happy Easter Britta.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Yael! I often think of you when watching TV news, and send you all my best wishes for protection.
DeleteThey have recently found a tape of an early Beatles concert at a boys school. The tape is very special because you can actually hear the Beatles singing - no screaming girls.
ReplyDeleteOf course there couldn't be screaming girls, Tom - at a boy school :-)
DeleteBut I understand you well (and I do not have my noise-cancelling headphones on): instead of girls hysterically screaming and in tears, I would prefer to listen to the band.
Didn't know about the tape - any new song on it?
It is all tunes from their first album - 'Please Please Me', etc.
DeleteAin't it strange that I can sing along with all their songs, word by word (though I was and am a fan of the Rolling Stones..). Hard disk ingrained - so I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?
DeleteSo the bunny is so carefully put away it's vanished! Hmmm, darkly suspicious here about how that might have happened..
ReplyDeleteDear Boud, hahaha - WhoDunit? Or "Who took the cookies out the cookie jar?" Oh no -- "The Case of the Vanished Bunny" is solved: it was on the highest board of my cabinet. AND it still exists :-)
DeleteHappy Easter Britta. I am trying to imagine the girls on the station platform.
ReplyDeleteDear Rachel, thank you! Well it is a sight - and people smile and laugh!
DeleteMy dear Britta,
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you and your family. I hope that you are having a lovely time in Bavaria. How incredibly thrilling to receive such a warm welcome from the triplets at the train station. All the decorations by the Landfrauen look utterly charming. When I am tired of cold, damp and grey skies here, I shall think of the celestial sunlight on the street and on the roof in your pictures. Thank you so much for your kind words about my photography. You are very kind. Wishing you the warmest of weather during the Easter weekend and the warmest of welcomes from everyone in the family including the triplets.
Dear Anonymous, (though by now I'm glad to know which blog you write - and it was not kindness, I really meant what I wrote to you - your photos are fantastic).
DeleteThank you so much for your kind wishes.
It really is another world when I come here to Bavaria.
When I see my friends in Berlin I hear their breathless stories about the opera they visited, which film or exhibition they had seen - now they even start to ask me - as if I were a tourist! - "What have you seen today?" (I almost felt guilty when a day went by without a cultural event :-) .
For a while I was a bit torn. And then I started to think: I do not have to decide. It is not black and white - at the moment I have the privilege to have the best of two worlds: capital city & beautiful nature.
The Three Graces have captured my heart: so much laughter, vivacity and sheer Lebenslust - no theatrical performance can give that to me.
Here in the pastorale I read and walk and draw - and then I dive into city life (and am more and more relieved when I come up and be free to breathe again..).
Your kind wishes for sunshine on Easter today were heard: such a beautiful day.
As H.C.Andersen wrote: "Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." You, I am pretty sure, have that.
The Easter Bunny is on Platform 2.
ReplyDeleteHad-I-But-Known, dear Tasker!
Delete(Or, as I mentioned the Beatles: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - maybe?)
Perhaps the real Easter Bunny was so jealous that he stole your golden bunny. Happy Easter to you and your family. The thing I like most about being Grandma is the way my grandchildren greeted me when they were small. I felt so important.
ReplyDeleteThat is a thought which hadn't occurred to me, dear Emma! No, the real Easter Bunny was a bit overzealous when choosing a good hiding place :-)
DeleteThank you for your kind wishes. And yes: the attention that small children focus on almost everything: that is stunning!
The Bunny will be just as appreciated when it appears next year!
ReplyDeleteDear Joanne, I'm glad he turned up - chocolate after a year might be ok, but I don't want to test it - in my household it never lasted that long :-)
DeleteHow fun that you were greeted like a rock star. Happy Easter.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Terra! The world as a stage - small here, but heartfelt.
DeleteIt sounds like you had a lovely Easter, dear Britta, and what a wonderful picture you paint, a screaming fan club greeting your arrival! Your village sounds like the triplets will be big personalities there as they grow up.
ReplyDeleteHaha, Pip - there are about 400 inhabitants in this nice little village - and there is a sport club which attracts round about 1000 members from the surrounding towns and villages.
DeleteWhen they had the yearly big summer feast, the children under 4 gave a dance on the village green - and one of the triplets suddenly surpassed herself - as I she loves to entertain and amuse the audience (I played theatre and still sometimes walk on the catwalk).
I took a video but sadly though understandably am not allowed to show it - it was a great performance and the visitors were spellbound. After the show she became modest again :-) , as actors often are.