I had this perfect wave of shops opening today.. I got up and took the dog out, in the rain as it has almost stopped falling, and then decided to hop over to a cosmetics store for some Nivea and other cute little things that make you neat and nice-smelling. It was exactly 8 in the morning, so as I walked down the main street, one by one the shops were opening. The clothes stores. The bookstores. Tabakerie. Doors opening. Slide doors sliding. People putting out the signs. The pharmacy. The shoe store. The home-grown bio food store. The cafes. And then my drugstore. Then the rain came down.