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 ...hubby playing the schoolmaster- he loves this role, because he must know now that I hate it, if for no other reason that a lot of talking is involved. Not a single situation that did not get dissected, no article read in the daily uncommented. Maybe hubby should apply for a job at a newspaper to be able to add his two cents to things that need commenting. Or work at a hot dog stand- the German expression of what hubby loves to do is "seinen Senf dazugeben", which means "add mustard". After two hours in the living room with hubby talking shop I went to the conservatory for tidying then to the kitchen to start with lunch. Alas, hubby followed. When he told me that he had read that noodles should be cooked without salt I chucked him out. The one thing hubby hates is when I compare him to the leader of our mostly brainless VIPs, who still think that anthelminthic for horses is an adequate remedy to fight off Covid, and that´s exactly what I did! Hubby left, but not long enough. He was back when it came to the filling of the shells and would not allow getting stopped with helping me. After two thirds the filling was finished and I had to resort to sauce Bolognese for what was left of the shells, which was quite a lot, even though I had prepared more filling than written in the recipe. Hubby does not take a no for a no, and in this case no meant that not so much filling should go into the noodles. But hubby is above it all... Lunch was good, but a lot of work, especially since I managed to miss each and every sales pitch of electric blenders and had to finely cut the ingredients for the filling. But in the afternoon, when hubby was off with Flavius for swimming lessons and I had to pick daughter up at the airport, I went to Lidl first, and what did I find? An electric blender, and a special offer at that! Daughter and I did a stop at Wolfgang´s for coffee and cake (their cakes are excellent) then drove back home for some crossword puzzles, and that was basically my day. Oh, I forgot, we watched a nature documentary about monkeys all over the world. Only that the narrator managed to lull me to sleep after a short while. Not good, because now sleep will avoid me in the evening!