Smoke, all smoke!

2017, 26 January.  It was such a day where plans, made yesterday, are adjusted at the early hours in the morning. It is not exactly inviting to go outside, diving back under the warm blankets seems the best option, were it not for the fact that postponing all those chores would lead eventually to sleepless nights.  Creativity is difficult to enforce but can be stimulated by just start somewhere, in the end, our entire life is like a walk in a strange city where there’s something to discover around every street corner.  The wood stove is burning hot, fortunately, we’re not forced here to have a fine dust filter our chimney like in Germany, where the fine dust pollution of coal-fired power plants and diesel engines is supposed to fixed by it’s citizens with an investment of thousands of euros, because at the, pathetic an poor, energy companies where executives and supervisory board members get frustrated because a more beautiful and faster Bentley comes on the market and that the lawyers they have hired to undermine the transition process to "green" energy, are all driving cheerfully in that car.  While politicians all over the world are confused because a colleague is doing exactly that what he, in contrast to the tradition, had announced before the elections, Lidl asks their customers who bought a karaoke set at the supermarket chain, to bring back.  Because of a defect in the plug of the, made by the German firm Targage , sing-along machine, users can get an electric shock.  According to a Lidl spokesman so far no one who actually can sing was injured.  In the meantime, and while enjoying a fifth mug of coffee, the sawdust maker still enjoys the past two evenings on which he and his love were asked to join friends for dinner.  The last night was short and so coffee, in combination with a paracetamol, does wonders on an early morning .....