WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND ?

Helps you to remember what you have done on the weekend of June 11. You never know if you need an alibi ! If you participate please put the little logo on the top of your post and leave your link.

This weekend was "dedicated" to my forthcoming trip to Istambul on Wednesday where I will visit the city together with my friend and neighbor Dominique. This meant to check my wardrobe and select the clothes I want to take along. Of course I had to do some laundry too.

I noticed that I had nothing to wear although my wardrobe is so full as a drunken sailor, but sometimes I feel like a bird who needs new feathers. I bought some new feathers in form of 2 nice T-shirts and blouses. Just right for warm weather sightseeings.

In the evening Dominique came over and we discussed the last details of our trip and then together with Mr. G. we watched the British TV series "Morse" and admired Oxford.

On Sunday morning I went to a local market in the next little town and bought roasted chicken for tonight. The rest of the day I spent to update my little notebook which I want to take along on my trip to Istambul, so that I can post from the Hotel.

Since a week the temperature has dropped from 25 ° (77 F)and more to not even the half. We warmed ourselves up with the open fire, but it will get even more cooler so I think we have to put the heating on again, now that we are going towards summer and of course it also rains after almost two months of sunshine and dry weather.

WHAT TO EAT ?

I was born during WW II in 1943. What I had eaten from that day on until food control and expiry dates were created in the 80th was certainly not always healthy and therefore, it's a miracle that I am still alive and even enjoy a good health.



Ever since I had to deal with the Bird flu, not only me, the whole world. Poor poultry was banned from our menu and millions of chickens were killed.



Coming next ?



When we had finished with the birds, suddenly the swine flu showed up in 2008 and thousands of pigs were also killed and we feared the poor pigs. So what was left as meat in our plates ?? the beaf ! but not for long because the cows became mad in 2009 and nobody wanted to eat a good steak anymore. Again the same thing happened thousands of cows were killed.

After this animal cleaning, we were allowed to eat chicken, pork and beef again. Vegetables had never been a source of concern.


But now since a few weeks there is a virus in the air, coming from Germany and called E-coli. First suspects were cucumbers from Spain, poor cucumbers were innocent. All scientists of the world tried to find the bad virus, while the population feared to eat vegetables even boiled and panicked again.



It became as usual a big money business, especially when Russia banned all imports of EU fresh vegetables. The farmers went beserk and had to throw there tomatoes, cucumbers and salads in the garbadge. Millions and Millions of € or $ were lost.

Now we can eat our salad and vegetables again because the culprit was in bean sprouts produced in Germany for "Bio" sale !



I really wonder what is coming next.

According to Wikipedia mad cows, pigs and birds causing flu to humans has already existed since a long time. Only we had less media communication, less TV and less Radio and maybe also less international business and money makers.



The truth ???