“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I’m currently – as I type – inside a BitchSlap with a fanatical yt commenter who TELLS me what to do. One day I WILL meet a worthy opponent and not some stupid attention whore. Maybe? ENTER THE STASI! BTW : My leaving celebration from Berlin was held in a Russian Hotel in East Berlin. […]
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The backing vocals on this were done by the Divine Eddi Reader. As you can see on the TOTP video. I saw the Eurythmics Live in Berlin in 1984. WTF : Was Eddi there? They sounded just as good as on my vinyl L.P. Quite liking the second video )official( SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF […]
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Been here. Done this. GB 24th Feb 2020 : I Write the Songs AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, MUSIC I Write The Songs Monday, 24 February 2020, 16:55 When I lived in Berlin, the girl I shared a room with finagled me into a Barry Manilow concert in the American Sector. She had two tickets and […]
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Easy as ABC I worked all three of these checkpoints as a policeperson. Only Alpha once. It’s far outside of Berlin…at the beginning of “The Corridor.” Alpha was in Helmstedt. The beginning of a 100 + mile autobahn into Berlin. With NO SPEED LIMITS. I drove/drived it :o) Hit the city 100 miles later and […]
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I walked on top of the Berlin Wall a few times when I was LeelooDallas : Multi-Pass! Behind the Reichstag, Tiergarten to the Brandenburg Gate. There was a wooden platform there! That wall came down… I don’t need no arms around meAnd I don’t need no drugs to calm meI have seen the writing on […]
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So – the writers of Sherlock did their research :o) I was taught this weapon. Inside and out. The bastard weapons instructor used to make us strip it down and reassemble it – behind our backs. But it did have MAJOR faults. It jammed regularly and wouldn’t fire. Also – for me personally – it […]
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Was not dissimilar to the photo above. A little wagon beside Checkpoint Charlie. A LIFE SAVER when doing a 12 hour shift there. I did a Christmas Eve Night and was fortunate enough to have a meal brought to me from the Schnell. Yum!
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OK. I’d planned a German Tea. A fave of ours. Currywurst. BUT (and this is where I failed) I can’t buy Bratties in town. We have to go to Lincoln to get Real German Bratwurst. I didn’t go and (stupidly) subbed the bratty for Frankfurter/HotDogs from a tin. Even my special Homemade Currywurst Sauce did […]
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At Roussillon Barracks we had lovely neighbours who’d rescued a fricking gorgeous German Shepherd dog from the German Army because he was deemed too old to do GSD dog things for the German Army. Anyhoo. Every morning we’d hear the command RAUS. RAUS. The doggie performed his duties better to German language orders! Another TRUE […]
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As a young girl in Berlin, I shared a room with a Here she is/There she’s gone girl. When she was “here” she had two tickets for a Barry Manilow Concert in the American Sector. I was her 3rd or 4th choice. The only one who said YES! We went. We watched. I’m NOT a […]
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GB: 17th July 2019 Pulling Duty for that RMP job there at the Blue Church, around Christmas, gave me the COLDEST but most beautiful night. Berlin shone BLUE on the snow and ice that I was standing upon. For hours. A Truly Ice Blue Crystal Night! The guys were laughing with their thick soled Army […]
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