Arnon

Do you still fast on the day of atonement? Is that why you had the herring yesterday?

Mieke

For the sake of my mother I won't aswer this question. And no, no connection to yesterday's herring.

As a child I loved to go to church on Easter and Christmas with our neighbours who used to look after me in the afternoon and evening when I was still in kindergarten. My parents didn't like it, though, and it would've been a great struggle if I had decided to get baptized. These neighbours seemed to be wealthier than my family because the owned a house and a garden big enough to keep chickens, bunnies and a cat going by the wonderful name of "Castillo". I thought that wealth necessarily correlates with religion for quite some time since all my Protestant classmates lived in houses.

Arnon

Do you remember other ingredients of the herring salad you ate in your childhood?

I bet

that's why you are so proficient at some special techniques. Lol. American boys are allowed to go without exotic flavors and textures in their growing up. It is , I think , a kind of retardation. But I don't think I am supposed to use the word anymore. Is it true that you can't smoke in bars Europe? Another illusion, another aspiration, gone. I miss you.

Kandy

Do we know each other?