Timişoara.
Now that there's five of us in the house, we have a reason to smuggle more often. Her belly is quite visible now, so I think this time she bought a length of sturdy denim (they finally have it in Romania). The pregnant's dress that she sewn was henceforth called armor. And it did the job.
We also bought flannel, diapers and whatnot.
Correction, as she explained to me later that the denim was made here, the Romanians still weren't making it, but there's that other cloth, just the same dark blue but lightweight, of which she also sewn one laborer's dress, for the summer. That one she wore on the shot for 28-VI-1979., and the armor one on 01-V-1979..
What do the newlywed do on their first marital night? [They] count the money... These days we were going over what gifts we got, and by some miracle very little of it were the silly stupid thing with which we wouldn't know what [to do] later. And it also didn't happen that anyone asked us what we'd like, because that's awkward, one can never guess correctly how far did the gifter intend to stretch. The only case where we did order something was a lens for the enlarger - if we don't make a proper photo laboratory now, later we surely will not. We intended to buy the chinese Seagull (of course, translated for the foreign markets from either han on cantonese) enlarger, which was sold lenseless, but was otherwise excellent in any other way - solid mechanics etc. The lens was a gift from Stef (or maybe Oma's brother), I remember it had cost 350 marks and had a M42 fitting, which meant we could have taken the lenss off the praktika, but it seemed it would be too long and we wouldn't be able to move the red filter in front of it.
The enlarger came in a huge wooden box, which could fit a smaller laundry machine, and was stuffed with wood shavings in strips, packed up to endure any tumbling on the ship. I took the škodilak and we went to Sinefoto and bought it. Luckily it's near the beginning of the Knez Mihajlova, so I was able to come really close with the car to load it (a block beyond, the street becomes a pedestrian zone). While maneuvering to come to the place, it turned I had to do an U-turn in front of the Skupština (parliament), at the crossing with Kneza Miloša. Okay, it's got a separate light for left turns, fine... a fine. Cost me one red [banknote, i.e. 100 then dinars]. Because there was the sign, no U-turns, but on the pedestrian island [i.e. median], and it was probably obscured by the people waiting for their green. Whatever... there, paid.
And then we started doing the wedding shots on it.
14-III-2021 - 31-X-2025