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We are back to Cassian supervising. The little one is so used to the procedure that he has been badgering his poor parents the whole weekend spent in Vienna by declaring he wanted to visit hubby and me for swimming. This I understand, because I would not want to be in Vienna when it is 34 degrees outside, too. To be honest, I would rather not be in Vienna at all! This is no more the town I used to love when I was younger! Today Cassian came in with a broad grin and practically tore his clothes off, knowing it´d be swimming time as soon as he had finished his first ??? breakfast. You´d think a boy that young would get his first nourishment of the day before nine o´clock, but mummy sent him to us with a box of muesli and yogurt so I assume that he did not get fed yet. How odd! The little one gets up at seven, and what I remember about toddlers is that breakfast is the first thing on the list after getting up. While we frolicked in the pool hubby tried to locate toads Thelma and Louise in the biotope to show them to our grandson. Alas, no Selma, no Louise, and worse, no frog! Maybe Louise killed him and the toads had to get off...
Shortly after Cassian was back home the wind freshened, and at four the first drops of rain began to fall. At least hubby is content now that the heat wave is over. Oops! At that moment my insurance company sent me a severe weather alert with hail anticipated, and my friend sent me a Whatsapp message about the dark clouds massing together. I better be off to save my vegetable plants!

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I used to love Vienna, too. Well, I still do, to a certain extent; and I can reach it by train within 3 hours. Well... I could, if our fearless leader hadn't decided that the mundane population should get Sputnik. :(

But you are right; the town was nicer when we were younger. Nowadays, my favourites are St. Pölten, Linz, Graz and Krems and der Donau. I wouldn't mind visiting Kufstein and Salzburg, either, but as we both know, I'm a pariah with my Russian vaccine and wouldn't be allowed in, even if I didn't have Mum to consider.

There's another thing you're right about: little ones do have odd eating patterns nowadays. Meaning: none at all! Today's young mothers have such modern ideas about right nourishment and stuff, it's a wonder that the kids don't grow up having eating disorders, every single one of them. I think it is a typical First World problem. When I was a kid, we were piss-poor and happy to have something — anything — on the table each day. I'm still unsure how Grandma managed to feed us all...

If your fearless leader insists that the booster dose will be done with Sputnik again you know how the wind blows. Daughter-in-law feeds only bio food, the more expensive the better, to her child. The only question is when she does so.

It reminds me of on old schoolmate of my cousin's. She insisted on giving her kids only bio food, only veggies and only such as were produced in her own garden. She worked herself ragged, and the kids regularly escaped to my cousin's house, where they finally could get some sensible (=harmful) food. My cousin is a vegetarian himself (well, most of the time), but his wife isn't and she cooks fairly simply and normally.

Which reminds me of a saying I once read on a card: Vegetarier ist das alte Indianerwort für "schlechter Jäger".
'Nuff said. *g*

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