Just recently our tomcat Linus was gone, now it is the turn of our flora. This weekend our oleander disappeared from its hibernating spot on the landing.

But of course stealing is out of the question. Probably a neighbour took the plant as he thought that it was put there to be disposed of, thereby misunderstanding the situation.

Just watch the image carefully. What do you see? Is she turning right or left? Clockwise or the other direction?

Seeing her turning clockwise would point to a dominating right half of the brain, mainly responsible for creativity, feelings and intuition. Turning the other direction accordingly would mean the left half, rather responsible for logic and rationality.

Believe it, I have seen her turning in both directions!

via:Basic Thinking, Source (?): the Australian Daily Telegraph.

How to interpret all the signs when

• Hanna has the climate killer brought out from the attic?
• In exchange the oleander, the fuchsiae and other plants are moved to the long forgotten storage spots in the staircase?
• Other plants are put into frost-resistant pots?

• You see drivers on an early Monday morning removing ice from their windscreens?
• The first people even keep their gloves on in the underground?
• The people standing in front of Berlin Central Stations show white mist in front of their mouths and this does not necessarily mean that they have a last smoke before the train ride?
• The sun lets the frost glissen on the meadows of Mark Brandenburg?
• The German Railways known to not talk about the weather has a fifty-percent delay since a long time due to signal failure and you are not sure in the train driver is on strike again?
• You do not know if to cry or to laugh seeing the sun and feeling the cold?
• The colleague is worried if the hedgehog in the garden is able to bear the cold without hibernating yet?
• The number of women you see wearing long boots is rising significantly?
• The choice of Christmas cookies surprisingly is growing rapidly in supermarkets?
• It is dark outside when you wake up and getting dark when you come home from work?
• You look forward to the weekend on Mondays?
• Your mood is getting worse and worse and you do not know why?
• And starlings increasingly gather on the house antenna?

I am sure you have guessed already: summer is definitely gone and autumn is here.

We are missing our tomcat Linus, who went astray on 22 September, so very much.…..and now we believe that he is dead. This makes us so unbelievably sad. Axel is trying to lift my mood by pointing out advertisements for cats on the net….but there is no room yet. Smokie’s (our other cat) approach is much more down to earth. He is looking for Linus on the attic every morning, miaows pitiably, but is easily distracted by playing with him, until he runs to the hallway again and cries out for him. I am dreaming of Linus every night and find many grey-brown tabby-cats, but he is not among them. Smokie is lying in my arm every night and when our neighbour’s cats come to feed, we both hope him to be among them. We miss him so very much.

Just decided to skip the backlog of translations from our German blog and to have a fresh start with this English version. So watch out for new articles!