"As my Whimsy takes me"

This will be a short post. Promised.
Cause I still to have unpack a few things, being back from a week in London.
And it is so hot, even now when the air stirs a bit and the sun is sinking. In a few minutes I will sit beside my sweet smelling roses on the balcony and drink a glass of fine chilly white wine. Ahh!
But I thought a lot not only in London of Lord Peter's motto: "As my Whimsy takes me", which I have adopted over a decade ago.
I have good travel guides - but I prefer to follow my whimsy. And not only on travels.
In London I met a dear exciting friend - and made new ones: Louise, whom I only knew via Facebook, came from Dover and we spent a lovely day in the V&A and Kensington Gardens.
And the author of the Leon-Cookbook, Henry Dimbleby, and his wonderful wife Mima invited me spontaneously to their home and cooked for me - such an amusing, witty and nourishing evening  that went by like a minute.
The whole week flew by in the blink of an eye (I will not get allegoric about that now, because then the post will become longer :-)
I'll raise my glass to you instead and greet you all:
"Cheers! Sláinte! Good to see/read you again!"

Lateral Thinking sounds so much better than Muddy Thinking ...

Surprise, surprise: I really didn’t think straight. As everybody else I am trapped in my own little world – and though I sometimes dream in English (don’t ask the Grammar Godddess!) and read very much in that beautiful language and (if Husband would come with me, which he doesn’t) would pack my things to live in London, Hythe or Edinburgh (see: I’m versatile), I told you that you have to wait for the beautiful cookbook I translated, because the German publisher DuMont puts it in April 2012 on the market.

What I hadn’t thought of is THAT MOST OF YOU read my articles in ENGLISH!

So you will not need a translation. And so you don’t have to wait. The book is in your bookstore since autumn. 

Claire Ptak and Henry Dimbleby: Leon. Baking and Puddings. 

www.octopsbooks.co.uk