We had some snow in the past week, coming down faster than it could melt. Sadly however, as soon as it stopped snowing, it did melt, and now there is nothing to remind us of it. It's too warm for Winter.
What else has been up?
Well, recently, when I went with my parents to Schiedam and Delft to meet friends and family, we stopped by a way-restaurant where they peculiarly enough sold the DVD of Shaun of the Dead for only 7,50€, and, as I had been unsuccessfully searching all the stores of Maastricht for it, I could not refuse the bargain. It is a brilliant film, a comedy of the highest calibre; and certainly more of a real film than most other comedies, as it actually has a plot that develops in a semi-realistic way, and a director with more interest in directing than just making sure all the characters appear in the shot.
On Wednesday I had a flat tyre at the most inconvenient of moments: I discovered it after ten, when I was getting hungry and about to buy bread for my breakfast. It being Wednesday, the village’s bakery was closed, and so Maastricht was the only possible place to acquire a healthsome loaf. But as I had a meeting in the early afternoon at Tafelstraat, it was unlikely I’d be able to get back to my room before then, so I decided to shower first, have a placeholder breakfast of nuts and biscuits, and then cycled to town on my flat tyre, which luckily held its end quite competently; I had to pump it up again only once every kilometre.
I then had a quick lunch at Tafelstraat, cycled to the station in one go and dropped off my bike there to have an entirely new tyre set (the old one’s profile had completely wasted away) and walked back to Tafelstraat, stopping by for a quick spell at Ulrike’s, as that was on the way and I saw she was in. I was still back in time at Tafelstraat to have a slightly more extended lunch before the meeting started. How’s that for planning, eh?
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