Tomatoes

The first ripe ones from the terrace and they taste pretty sweet. They're about a month later than last year. Our chillies and peppers are coming along nicely too. Looking good, no?

So on to the question everyone wants the answer to :- "Who's the hottest man in Germany?" The correct answer at about 5 pm today was me. For about 30 minutes I was, I believe, hotter than the sun. It was deeply unpleasant. A combination of illness and sunshine combined to make me generate enough heat to boil all the kettles in Wiesbaden. I was a veritable Dampfmaschine*.

Other news : my cold continues and I can smell and taste absolutely nothing, I reek of Olbas Oil, Moot caught his third bird in three days last night (this one survived too) and I've had enough of being ill.

Other sad news was the death of Rajesh Khanna. One of the first big stars of Bollywood. This is a lovely song from Aradhana.

*Dampfmaschine =steam engine. Nothing to do with a James Brown song.