This afternoon we’ve been to the cinema for the first time since Nadine left hospital. It went very well, we were sturdy enough to watch two movies at the Fantasy Film Fest Nights in a row.

‘What We Become’ is the supposedly first Danish zombie movie in history and ‘The Lobster’ is a great piece of British humour. It is set in a society where singles are brought to a hotel and given 45 days to find a new partner. If they don’t manage to do so, they will be transformed into the animal of their choice. Ant there is a counter-society too, living in the woods like the book people of Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 that turns out to be not much better. If you ever come across that one: watch it!

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.