Inbetween visiting Nadine’s parents in Münsingen and my mother in Heidenheim, we spent a day or two with my old friend Tina in Augsburg on the easter weekend. Tina and me went there to study philosophy back in the 90s and she’s still around living in a cute little house in Lechhausen. On Saturday, we first went for a walk around the Kuhsee.

Then we visited the Kulperhütte at the bank of the river Wertach where we spent a sunny afternoon in pleasance. What a good thing to be in plein air on the first sunny day this spring for a few hours! Let’s celebrate this event with a song by 18th Dye, a band Tina and I saw in Konstanz back in the old days:

Reading adult books on paper or on a kindle is very demanding to Nadine – she still isn’t doing that at all. But children books with less text and bigger letters work for her. Thank god we had a little visitor yesterday to whom she could read out “the king and the ocean” in slow pace!

By the way: When we will be in Southern France in April, British band The Slow Readers Club are going to play at the Manchester Music Club Festival in Montpellier. I don’t know wether visiting a concert is a good idea, but we will think about making that trip back into 80’s style on the day given.

It’s such a relief that Nadine is allowed to leave the house on her own now. Yesterday, while I was visiting my chess club, she went to a reading by the Writers in Stuttgart. They are a group of people, mostly native speakers, who were reading poems, short stories and excerpts from their books in English language at the Dreigroschentheater.

Nadine’s American colleague Mary-Ann picked her up and and our Canadian friend Valerie was the first person to enter stage. It is still a task for Nadine to stay awake after 9 p.m., so she had to leave during the break. But: She made her way home from the Marienplatz all alone. See that as her personal contribution to the evenings theme called “Awakenings”.