Albert Einstein here, Chico and I are out for walkies in the park.

My watch tells me we've walked exactly 3,000 and four steps, our personal best.

Our steps on the only thing we track, our smart meter display at home,

tells us how much energy we use daily, weekly and monthly,

which can help me make changes to save energy.

And now my watch tells me it's time to head back for a cover, right Chico?

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The S-Bahn commuter train rattled along in the darkness towards the eastern side of Berlin.

Slowly, the cityscape gave way to the sprawling suburbia of Friedrichsfelder.

It was here in the early hours of August 13, 1939 that Lena Budzinski disembarked.

Walking alone, she headed towards the nearby Alotment Garden.

Located throughout Berlin, Alotment Gardens allowed city dwellers to embrace a quasi-rural lifestyle.

They could purchase or rent a modest plot of land on garden grounds to cultivate their own crops

or raise small livestock.

During the day, the gardens were peaceful.

Narrow paths wove through the ornamental fruit trees and fields of home-grown vegetables.

Gardeners tended to their little patch of countryside to the ambient sounds of the resident chickens, pigs and goats.

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