Waiting.

still waiting eh

Going out and then meeting my stalker for a heart to heart.

Layover in Nur Sultan on my way to Warsaw.

Good travels, Bonnie!


OT - in between series, a little narked I cannot find episode 6, and enjoying the evening after quite a busy day.

Checking the pronunciation of some Welsh words like Cŵn Annwn and discovering I cannot type the ^w with the 'roof' accent over the w.
Maybe you need Welsh keyboard settings for that?

hii beauty queen

researching Hunger Winter 1945 ... hopefully Crystal can provide some insight , as it was to do with my Dutch friends !!

Oh? The Hunger Winter was god awful! A lot of people starved to death. Part of The Netherlands was already liberated but the western part -basically from the large rivers and up- wasn't just yet. Since most farmers are located in the south, -also in the east btw but maybe there were more Germans there as they're on our east border? Not sure.
Food ran out in the western/northern part, people were desperate and ate whatever they could to stay alive. Even tulip bulbs, cats and dogs!!
Many went to the south on foot, hoping to get food there. Many farmers had taken in loads of people and in the end they had to decline others that had walked all that way, close to starvation, as they simply hadn't enough food anymore to feed more, nor the space in their homes/farms to give them shelter.
In the West/northern part there was a shortage of everything really: food, medicine, no heating and so on.
People got wood wherever they could to keep themselves warm in improvised stoves. Even small pieces of wood from the tram rails, illegally chopping down trees, anything wood from houses of Jews that had been deported and so on.
They couldn't dig graves for the dead because the ground was frozen, coffins were out of the question as they needed the wood for heating. So they 'stored' the bodies in a church.
And all the while there was a curfew: no going out after 8pm.

It was a horrible time! And many people suffered tremendously.

Omg !!! Hopefully we don't have a repeat of that in our time !
Thanks Crystal , that was very enlightening .
We are coming into our winter and are facing similar circumstances , due to the pandemic ... one school of thought brought up the comparison.... personally , I don't think we are even close to what you described ... Thank God !!

Watching the Simpsons and trying to learn some life tips

Uploading the reading I just recorded :)

Oh well,
time to get dressed and out to do some grocery shopping 🛒,
it's not going to do itself ,
Might as well wish myself luck
Good luck me

You're welcome, and indeed let's hope we won't ever have a situation like that again.
And no, we're not close to that whatsoever. Look up some photos of people -if you can stomach it- from during that Hunger Winter... Completely emaciated bodies. Hard to look at.
But no one is anywhere near that due to the pandemic, at least not in a western country.

I'm reading the question and trying to answer the Thread Hopefully
But for this Time doing Nothing just watching TV.

Waiting for the pot of coffee to stop brewing.

Mentally preparing myself to get up, get dressed, and vacuum the living room.

Coffee, chilling & cooling down after vacuuming.

Freezing... and shaking my head, I just realized I have a space heated.

Gawkin out the window.
They are repaving the road in front of my home.
First they scurrified the old pavement up.
Now the workers are chipping, sweeping and setting the bedway in prep for the paver.

I'm pretty happy with my town, always doing improvements and performing care and maintenance. A huge contrast to the town I lived in before who didn't care at all.

The town's motto:
"Bay St Louis ~ A Place Apart"
It certainly is!

Getting ready to leave the office,
grab my proof of vaxx card, and see if
I can get the QR code for my phone.