The highlight of yesterday was eating a large salmon, washed down with two beers on my part, and a bottle of champaign for the two of us.

Cooking technology: bonefire and wok. Ingredients: salmon, water, two onions, salt, beer.

Approved by Alexandra and Luzik-the-rat.

The former said it was better than last year. No wonder as most of last summer I was still dealing with the consequences of April 2014 gas poisoning, with my brains considerably foggy..