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Red flag

What do I see when I step out of the house? Woods- in front of the house, to the left, to the right. Our part of the country is covered in trees, and that´s good. Or better, it should be good but isn´t. When our most beloved daily (perfect for dimwits) wrote this morning that wood is the new toilet paper- at the beginning of Corona people all over Europe bought rice and noodles, except for Germans and Austrians, who bought as much toilet paper as possible. I sent hubby to the Lagerhaus, to ask for the price of wood briquettes. And, as expected, it is now thrice as high as the year before. And, even better, briquettes are sold out. It cannot be because there´s a sudden lack of felled trees. It´s because some people know exactly how to boost prices and make a mint of money by buying things up and selling off weeks later, when prices have gone up to astronomical heights. The quicker a product is sold out and off the market, the more people think they need it. And our media (at least some of them, like the previously mentioned daily) are spreading panic daily. No matter what it is, there´s only shortage of products now. Not enough vegetables (too hot, too wet, hail, whatever), too cold in spring, so next to no fruits, especially apricots from Wachau. The miserly harvest gets sold at a very high price along the streets there, while two streets away apricots from Hungary get loaded off cars and transported to the stalls. There they get sold to the price of Wachauer apricots- at least those golden balls of delight got a sight of the beautiful landscape, but I am sure they will be sorely missed in Hungarian shops, which will make the prices rise there, too, because, you know, less fruits means higher prices. I think there´s hard times ahead, this game is far from being called off!
Daughter and I ordered new glasses for the two of us. Hers are very trendy, I am so envious! I could have ordered the same, but metallic frames always have those nosepads which get caught in the hair if you push the glasses up, and I am used to push them up if I need a good view at tiny things. I´d be bald in record time!
Husband is off for a rehearsal. Inside the house it´s quiet, outside not. Idiot neighbour´s son, who is an idiot himself, has loud march music turned on. If he won´t turn off this sh... I will put my CD player to the bathroom window and flood the garden with death rock as an act of revenge...