Mind The Gap

I may have to reconsider my opinion of football fans.

Today, 2 pm, tram station Dasselstraße: An old man, type retired "public servant", yells at the bike riders passing by the station. Admittedly, they were riding across the sidewalk, and bikers in Cologne are annoying often enough, but just now, they weren't bothering anyone - except, apparently, that old bastard. And he was really annoying.
Eventually, two young men, dressed up for the football match later on, addressed him. "Excuse me (!), could you please (!) get a little less het up?"
He continued anyway. But...

Today, 4 pm, train station Cologne South: I am too stupid to board a train. Instead, I step right into the gap (Yes, all Londoners are now permitted to laugh) and find myself up to the hip between train and platform. (That's a scary feeling, I can tell you.)
Figures that the only people who bothered to help and ask whether I was ok were not the "normal people", but the English and Swedish (!) football fans. I mean, I didn't actually need help, I got out fine on my own, and I was ok - I have some scratches and some bruises on my legs, nothing wild - but you still prefer sympathy and support to the "If I pretend I didn't see anything, it didn't happen" attitude.

Whenever I hear Espinosa, I think of Carla. ...

Right. Going to take photos now, I guess.

Pictures for the Meme

So, I went and did what was possible.

juno_magic, you really want more cats? Well, they snuck into quite a few of the other images. Are you content with sharing? ;)

fuchs wanted my breakfast. Isn't it exciting? The kitten seems to think so.

rosa_rennsemmel wanted socks. I dug the silliest socks I have out of my wardrobe just for you!

spacesailor wanted my desk. Yes, it's always that untidy...

laurenia asked for my precious. Now my living Precious is in Lingen currently and can therefore not be photographed, so I took my book preciouses instead. I got both of them from the living precious, too. 'náro apparently felt inspired to add himself to the picture. Oh well, he's precious too, so that's ok.

flower_star asked for my favourite place. Unfortunately, that's not in the house (sad, isn't it), so I'll have to wait till I next get there and have a camera...

eliathanis wanted my favourite "normal" piece of clothing. If it hadn't been "normal", it'd have been my hakama.

macalla_ wanted my bookshelf, which has to be handled in three pictures.

faelkchen wanted to see my kitchen. Yes, the walls are pink. They were supposed to end up terracotta, which obviously didn't work, and as the rest of the moving and renovating was exhausting anyway, we didn't find the energy to redo it. And ever since then... well, too much of a hassle. We got used to it.

barbardin asked for my favourite piece of furniture. I hope the Luggage counts, because I don't have any other beloved pieces of furniture, except perhaps the desk pictured above.

andalataiel asked for my favourite bit of medieval garb. This would be it, until I finally get to do my newly planned garb, which will (hopefully) be prettier.


Speaking of andalataiel: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!