It was a Quiet Day until I started Drinking Hot Chocolate in "Graff."

Today I met Janet in "Graff" a wonderful bookshop in Braunschweig, the sort of place where you can hide in a corner and muse all day.   It has a coffee shop on the second floor, and it wasn't until we'd started drinking our hot chocolates, that we realised a mechanical thumper was below the window, bedding in a cobbled pathway.   The noise was so loud we couldn't hear ourselves think, so we drank up in a hurry and wandered off to the quieter cathedral precints for a good chinwag.   The two photos show "Graff" a bookshop founded in BS in 1867.  It has three floors and sells not only books but newspapers, magazines, DVDs, CDs, speaking books, calendars and cards.  I could become a hermit there and stay for days on end.  The lowest photo shows a sundial that has suddenly appeared on one tower of the cathedral.  I'm sure it's new, unless it's been there for years and today was the first time I'd noticed it.  

Tonight I sang with the choir again, and we sang "Guten Abend, Gut Nacht," a gentle song by Johannes Brahms.  It is lovely to sing in German with a German choir.