an old trick

The son wishes a happy new year in the morning it is the first time speaking this year.

This is all not surprising. 

There had been the wish to get up and take a long walk yesterday, but the aftermath of yesterdays walk is still in the bones and in the sore feet. The walking shoes are a bit too long and too narrow for the feet, and this is a bit sore after a lengthy walk. 

In the afternoon take a short walk about town, survey the scene of yesterdays motorcycle accident. Really, there are only two possible causes, either the motorbike  or the car passed a red light. But it was on the local news this morning that the motorcyclist had survived despite being severely injured. That is a good thing.

Take a picture of a Syrian fast food shop beside the river.

The picture is nothing special.

Look into the windows of all the closed shops, and see a machine for making tea. The machine costs five hundred Euros, and it's form lets it look just like a urinal. But supposedly somebody will buy it. There is a jewellers shop with a sign advertising fifty per cent discount. The words "up to" are carefully placed inside the horizontal bar of the number five.

It is an old trick.

Go back home.