"similar" - kitchen stuff

At Ingos place. A white electric kettle:



A white toaster:



And the saecco-coffee machine:

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My place, everything is tucked in one place:



The coffee machine is a real cheap one. I used to drink at least a cup, black, before starting to work - until my old coffee machine broke down. I didn´t find a cheap one immediatly after and realized I don´t need a cup in the morning. Now I don´t even like coffee, only with milk.

This coffee machine hence is for Ingo.

The toster and electric kettle are blue. Actually I don´t like that color - but since I came to this town I get things in blue...

The carpet in the room I lived in first (in the apartment-sharing community) - blue. The car I got from a colleague - blue. The hanging wardrobe I got from another colleague - blue. The first Polo my employer ordered for me, blue, the second, dito...
The carpet here at work, well, blue.

Did I mention I like the color red?

But the cars are best sold with a blue color, so that´s the cheapest color. Well...

"similar" - Four bikes

Here are the bikes we have in my place:



The pic is taken from my balcony. No, the colorful one isn´t mine, it belongs to Ingo. He only bought it this year. All the years he had no bike here and always had to bring his bike in his car.

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I always had a bike at his place - it´s a used one and I really don´t like the color, it´s the boy-girl-stuff... but, well it didn´t cost that much:



I just love summer time!

Former "similar" - BBQ

Despite Murphy (sorry, deep-linking didn´t work - see Murphy - BBQ further down that page) we are owners of BBQs.
Ingo got a cheaper one which is about to break down:

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We had similar ones.
Yesterday I gathered the last one available of the model I´ve got:



Goes into the category exact now :-)

"exact" - cucumber & fishing rod

Ingo loves these special cucumbers, so he bought 51 "Spreewälder Gurken".
To have them at hand anytime he brought some to my place.

They are decimated in number, here you see what´s left at Ingos place:

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At my place:



I hope ´till winter they are eaten up. He placed them on my heating...

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See the fishing-rod-game? I just had to buy it. in 1999 we bought this one which is in Ingos place (please click to enlarge):



Those days toys were rather expensive in Germany. When we came to Australia we found the so-called "Two-buck-shops" where we really loved to browse through. This toy is from a regular Coles-store, though. I don´t remember the little towns´ name (and the dairy of the journey where I might have it is in my place, whereas I am at Ingos place right now).
It was somewehere in the asherton Tabellands. We stopped for an overnight stand, went to Coles and.... they must have had a baker who was from France - we found something called "petit pain" (little bread) and they were exactly like german bread rolls!
We stayed a whole day longer just to eat them again!
I love Australia but they don´t have real bread or bread rolls over there. This was the only thing we missed.
In Germany (and France) bread rolls are crunchy on the outside and fluffy inside. The ones in Australia are rather slushy.
That and sausages is what we really didn´t like. Especially the sausages! They were really awful. They were flabby with no structure. We bought them just once.
But well, there is more than food ;-)
And, I certainly have to add: Germany has not those pies you find in Australia, which I really miss. I will have some in december :-)

Yes, and to always remind me of the beautiful time we had there, I had to buy this fishing-rod-game, too...

"similar" - Telly and Fireplace

I guess again you can clearly say which belongs to whom:

This is Ingos´:

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This is mine:


Ingo´s got a flat screen TV - I have an old used or pre-loved one - I need an older model, otherwise I couldn´t place the grass and the flower on top. Plus it cost only 20 euros. I got it from the company Ingo works for.

"My" fireplace actually belongs to Ingo. He bought it in my town and was so curious to check it out that he brought it in my apartment. I liked it so much that we decided to leave it in my place and buy a second one which he took to his place. They are not exactly the same model - mine... well, Ingos´ in my place got a rounder shape.