Random stuff

I should have started counting down the days of Lent, like I did with Advent. That would have spared me the pains to come up with a subject line for 6 whole weeks! Ah well, too late now.

Today, I was on a hoarding tour. Price freezing on basic foodstuffs will end by May 1st, so I stocked up on flour, sugar, sunflower oil and coffee. Well, there is no price freezing for coffee, but it gets more expensive by the day, so when I find some for a halfway reasonable price, I'll buy it.

One of the local food shops had cold cuts on sale, so I bought some of those, too. Just enough for a couple of days, as they won't keep much longer, and the freezer is already bursting at the seams. Price freezing on chicken meat will end by May 1st, too... Not that it would mean much, but at least it will bridge us over for some time. An inflation rate of 11% is calculated for Jule or so. How wonderful - NOT!

I worked a bit on the quiet books; decided that the puny little red balls on the seal pages won't do, so I've replaced them with good-sized white ones with a colourful star pattern. I think the pages look much better that way. I also cut out some pieces for the castle puzzle page. Tomorrow there will be some Velcro work again.

And some baking; at least that's the plan. It's high time I started if I want to be done before Easter. One shouldn't disappoint the Easter Bunny, right?

I had a long phone chat with my friend Erna. I haven't talked to her for weeks. Poor (ex-)colleagues, they are so snowed over with work, they don't have the energy to hunt down some lazy retiree like me. So I have to go after them. But that's okay. I don't mind.

Random stuff

I should have started counting down the days of Lent, like I did with Advent. That would have spared me the pains to come up with a subject line for 6 whole weeks! Ah well, too late now.

Today, I was on a hoarding tour. Price freezing on basic foodstuffs will end by May 1st, so I stocked up on flour, sugar, sunflower oil and coffee. Well, there is no price freezing for coffee, but it gets more expensive by the day, so when I find some for a halfway reasonable price, I'll buy it.

One of the local food shops had cold cuts on sale, so I bought some of those, too. Just enough for a couple of days, as they won't keep much longer, and the freezer is already bursting at the seams. Price freezing on chicken meat will end by May 1st, too... Not that it would mean much, but at least it will bridge us over for some time. An inflation rate of 11% is calculated for Jule or so. How wonderful - NOT!

I worked a bit on the quiet books; decided that the puny little red balls on the seal pages won't do, so I've replaced them with good-sized white ones with a colourful star pattern. I think the pages look much better that way. I also cut out some pieces for the castle puzzle page. Tomorrow there will be some Velcro work again.

And some baking; at least that's the plan. It's high time I started if I want to be done before Easter. One shouldn't disappoint the Easter Bunny, right?

I had a long phone chat with my friend Erna. I haven't talked to her for weeks. Poor (ex-)colleagues, they are so snowed over with work, they don't have the energy to hunt down some lazy retiree like me. So I have to go after them. But that's okay. I don't mind.