Hello campers!

Hope you are enjoying a little better weather. Well, yes, it does seem to be national-steaming-dung-day today, in rural Switzerland. All the farmers seem to do exactly the same thing, on exactly the same day in Switzerland. Are they psychic do you think? Or is there some farmers' grapevine from which they all hang?

Anyway, the edict has gone out! "Shovel your shit!" Now; farmers through all the villages are creating huge mounds of steaming dung. Then, transporting these onto their fields. My God, it pongs!! Unfortunately, this morning, the fog was so dense and icy, that all those sweet n sickly dungy smells were trapped close to the ground. The smell almost made me throw. And I have a fairly strong stomach for unsavoury smells. Since there was also a hard frost last night, the steam lifting off it was amazing.

You can't beat their kindness to animals in farming though. There is no such thing as factory farmed chickens here!! Good for them! Love to see that England is soon following suit. Well done to those chefs and all of who have been the driving force.

Talking of factory farming!

Aren't they funny? All those factory farmed chocolate bunnies!! They made me laugh sitting in their regimented rows, waiting for a greedy hand. Like mine  Yes, thankyou, it was gorgeous, thick chocolate around the ears, too. The kind, that hurts your teeth when you bite into it's thickness - stop drooling!

And there he it! He didn't last long. He had a little bell around his neck, which I couldn't eat. Shhhhhh, don't tell anyone, but I've got another one hidden in the cupboard. My body doesn't like much sugar, so there could be a fight, and it may get ugly.

Yes; the shops are full of Easter chocolate here, as you can see. 'Paque' it's called here. I think I've spelt that correctly. But you never know. They've just had a festival of 'poisson' or fish. Don't ask me? There were lots of people dressed up and throwing confetti; but honestly, I didn't see any excited fish!!

Now, quite frankly, some chocolates here are just plain scarey! This for me, falls into the scary category. My son bought me one of these large ones last year. I was so proud of it, I placed it in the window, like a precious ornament. Within an hour it's face had melted down to a mask of bunny horror; and its eyes had fallen out of its sockets! My son wasn't best pleased. I'm sure it gave me nightmares. Here's one for you:

Come on, you're scared, aren't you? I can see the whites of your eyes, too!

Oh, a quick welcome to my new readers in Saudi Arabia and Vietnam! Hellooooooo! My, that's a long way away. It's a small world, isn't it?

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