30C - in early April. Looking forward to the summer - not

Hi CP, good to hear you are well. We are well, too. I was hoping for cleaning and sorting while working at home, but even though our services are down it's a lot of work managing the lockdown and preparing a restart. I love scones with clotted cream Today, on Good Friday, we're having puff pastry pie with cod and mushrooms, compound butter, salade nicoise and a Pinot Blanc from Nahe/Germany

So great. Plant's voice is so powerful. Very impressive.

Perfect sunny weather. Very cold at night (up to -14C in the countryside), very warm in the afternoons. I enjoy the blue sky. There are no planes, no contrails. Just a beautiful blue sky.

My second week working at home. It's ok but I miss my colleagues and clients. I prefer hot lunch over dinner so I have to cook during my lunch breaks. The motto is: fast and delicious Yesterday I had some hash browns, today I made a wonderful tomato soup. Needed 25 minutes 👍

Rievkooche (hash browns) at a brewpub. My homemade ones don't look that good but they taste better

The coconut fish curry sounds so delicious, CP. I am no fan of aperitifs but I love to have a digestif after dinner.

Wonderful

This Haaland kid is frightening. 7 goals in 3 games. He is 19 and played only for a few minutes... Crazy

On tuesday we went to a Polish restaurant. The pierogi and the Tyskie beer were fabulous, the Grasovka vodka was too cold. This morning we had a great breakfast from the Italian deli: Sicilian bread, dry cured ham from Sardinia and some Italian cheese. For dinner we are going to have a borlotti bean stew and later this evening a fine Bordeaux 🍷

Last week we had night temperatures up to 14C. That's bizarre.

Arsenal 2003-04. Pires, Viera, Bergkamp, Gilberto Silva, Thierry Henry. Great team, played fantastic football.

Awesome. Cold, bright and sunny. Last night we had -5C, -12C at the countryside, now that's some real winter temperatures. Since my last post, January 5, temperatures were all above 8C, mostly above 12C. Forsythia and cherry trees are in bloom. About 2 months too early.

Happy New Year ebk. Great idea. It's time to invent beaming. I miss my 20s and 30s when we spent so many nice evenings with friends. Cooking, eating, drinking, laughing.