Music player should be working from friday on...

"These are techniques that have been sent to me by various Buntheads. I want to again stress that in no way do we condone the techniques listed here or practice these. Except maybe the Turkey Shoot and the Rear Admiral. And definitely the Spicey Stanley." HOW TO IMPRESS YOUR GIRLFRIEND, as mentioned by Christian on Le Sofa.

Days with a Slow Food Magazine in the mailbox are good days:

Wonderful everyday bread'n'butter-life stories from a culinary perspective and especially the last few pages. They tell what different collectives did in the past few months and are a delicate echo of the respective regions:

France: "... the members of the Convivium Paris-Rabelais met twice: One dinner had the objective to support the manifest of defending raw-milk cheese made in the region of Jura, the second was about beaujolais nouveau..."

Japan: "...during the evening the constitution the Convivium Tokio Nippon was celebrateted with a Tee Ceremony, led by by the Grandmaster of the School of Tee..."

Germany: "...will establish an important research programme, financed by the government of Nordrhein-Westfalen..."

China: "...was inaugurated by the two ministers of agriculture in the chinese government..."

A jewish woman getting cancer treatment in a hospital and refusing to share a room with an arab woman suffering from the same disease is representative. BBC TV.