Britta's Letters from her life divided between city-life in German's capital Berlin and life in a Bavarian village

Monday 21 October 2024

It's Not That I Don't Want To

 I haven't written for a long time because I have a problem with Google: these days I cannot show you my photos, because I need more cloud. I am willing to pay - but that is really difficult this time, and I lose interest, hanging for hours in telephone waiting lines. 

I have the feeling that many of you are also a bit tired of posting - or have good reasons not to because of trolls or hate comments. 

I love to write - but I love to add my photos too. 

Maybe I try to write without them, maybe I stop. Though I would miss you - I love your blogs, and I love your comments - sometimes I have the feeling that with some of you I am friends. 

And two of you I have met in real life: Tom Stephenson in Bath, and Susan Scheid in America. And those beautiful towels by Joanne Noragon are such a special gift! 

Let me ponder a while... 



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    1. Dear Boud, thank you for your encouraging words!

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  2. I certainly understand burn-out and internet problems. I will be ecstatic if you stay. I'll be sad if you leave. I know I will think of you often and try to feel pretty and witty.

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    1. Thank you, Mimmylin! You reminded me of my first intention when I started the forerunner of this blog with the same title: at a visit in Hastings I had found the little porcelain box with the inscription "You are witty and pretty!" - and I thought: "Yes! Growing older this is just what I need to hear! and want to become" . I love your word "ecstatic" you use above: it belongs to the same group of inspiring words that make getting older better.

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  3. When I broke the bottom of my leg a few weeks ago, walking became almost impossible. So the computer became more important than ever before. Even small hardware and programme problems became crises and big problems were worse.
    I am with you in spirit!

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    1. Oh, dear Helen - what a bad accident! I wish you all the best: that you heal quick and in a very good way.
      Oh yes - I have spent quite a long time in telephone waiting lines (the winner is: "The Deutsche Bahn" - sometimes you have to wait about 20 minutes to get a living person - who is so sorry that he can't help you - and as they sometimes in customer service (!) don't know how to speak German (!) you might have difficulties to understand their mumbled "sorry" - and then, if you get a tip and try it and find out: "Oh no - it doesn't work..." - you have to dial again...and again...
      I hope you are getting better soon, dear Helen!

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    1. Thank you, Joanne. Without photographs (I am the visual type, and sometimes proud of my photos) I feel reduced. But maybe that is a good picture for autumn: shedding leaves and photos - minimalism is so in...so I might become frugal...only words...

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  5. I too share your sentiments BrittaX

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    1. And I would say the same as our blog friends above: Don't leave us, Rosemary!!! I love (and learn from) your posts so much. Short visits to England they are for me - and your photographs are so wonderful and skilled!

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  6. Dearest Britta, I would be bereft if you abandoned your Witties & Pretties. Even knowing you might sporadically put something up for us to enjoy every once in a while is a pleasure. It’s like getting a postcard or, oh joy!, a letter!! in the letterbox from a dear friend. It may only happen from time to time but it is so eagerly received!

    And I do appreciate what you mean about having your ability to illustrate your post thwarted by technology, it does kind of take some of the fun out of crafting the post. Just putting bare words on the page doesn’t appeal to me with my own rare offerings, for while I might have something to say, it’s the colouring in around page that is the icing, so to speak. And, golly, it can take ages! Rome wasn’t built etc etc …

    Apologies for being so tardy with my thoughts here. Life is getting in the way of the formerly ample opportunities to just cruise about daily blog offerings and stop and say hello here and there. I do snatch a few minutes on buses and trains but it’s not the same as luxuriating at leisure. And right now, as I’m sitting in a very long queue at a Guv’ment agency with paperwork to be attended to, I’ve seized the moment:)

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  7. Hi Britta! So sorry you're having issues with your blog. It's so nice to still read these types of fun blogs! So many of the ones I used to read are no longer around. I still have mine from years ago, but haven't written any new content for it in a long time. (I just move some seasonally appropriate old post to the top.) I'm not a fan of the Substack trend--so boring to look at! And then the subscription requests--good grief! Hope you can keep blogging as long as you still find joy in it!

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