Sorry about your bidet. I hope it is fixed now. We don't have one. I've never lived in a place with one, but I know people who have one. Mostly our bathrooms in all the homes I lived in, were too small for a bidet anyway. The house my parents moved into when I was in kindergarten had such a small bathroom, that you couldn't open the door completely. The reason for that was, that in the time the house was built (1944), people had their toilets outside and a small bathtub was placed in the kitchen and filled with hot water from the stove. So when the people living there decided to build a real bathroom there wasn't much space in the house to do so. So they went for one small room for the toilet and another for a built-in bathtub and a sink. My parents removed the bathtub and replaced it by a second toilet and a shower. After that, the door could be opened the whole way. As a child I went to my grandmother's home, when I wanted to take a bath. That was cool. I was often there over night. And each time I bathed before going to bed. At least in winter. A good way to get warm again.

For the birthday, the girls and I made a little show with the socks we used for my dad's birthday. We put a staff on two chairbacks, an blanket over it and did the Mahna Mahna song from Sesame Street. He laughed a lot.

Currently I'm rereading Grave Peril. It has been a while. You tend to forget a lot. I wanted to read something different, but couldn't concentrate on it.

My daughter read the first 5 Percy Jackson books over the holidays. The first 3 I have in German, and the other 2 can be read in the online library as the real library is still closed and I'm sure won't be opened until at least midFebruary. Pity they don't have the Heroes of Olympus series online.

I hope you enjoyed your game Dina. The soup was delicious, but today for some reason one of my coworkers crowded me from behind and I growled at him..
Hopefully it will pass.

As long as you don't scratch him, it should be fine.

First he will learn how to shift shapes.

I don't think he would be thrilled by the thorns. Would shredd his duster every time he turned into his demon form.
 

I wonder, if Marcone has stocked up his supply of suits, since he took up the coin.

Thank you. The cases have increased here, too. So we are in a stricter lockdown until the end of January.

@Dina.
Wow. So you can be proud to work there.

I'll go to work next on Monday. The winter holidays last until the end of the week, so I'm at home now.

There is some snow, but mostly it is cold dirty mud. 
The family was comparing snow fotos today. My cousin's kids actually could build big snowmen and ride their sleighs down the hills. Technically we could have done that, too, but we would have been stuck somewhere halfway and after that would look kind of crusty brown with bits of grass, not crystal white, LOL.

I have counted the ducks. Found 5 of 6. But maybe I just couldn't see the last one.

My mother is in preventive quarantine, because she had contact to an infected person. The old neighbour she is taking care of.  Don't know how the woman caught the virus, probably from one of the other neighbours helping her, but she is in a coma now. I have the feeling that I won't see her again. She wasn't healthy in the first place. She has been found because she left her door open in the cold. She was found sitting asleep in her armchair with high fever.
My mother has been tested negative but has to stay inside until the end of next week. 

I always thought of Chandler as Peabody's partner from Turn Coat.

@Foxed:
Very interesting. The split of PT/BG was not planned and I think he didn't plan for 12 Months, too. It didn't sound like that.
I was thinking that maybe Mr. Butcher is just playing with us and there will be no 12 Months. Instead there will be a new collection of short stories, all situated in the mentioned 12 months.

So by your theory, the next book (whatever one it will be) could have something to do with rituals, entropy curses and / or White Court Vampires (I have the feeling, there will always be Whamps from now on ). Or with problems within families (Harry's fallout with Ebenezar, Thomas still on the island, the wedding, Lara as new stepmother, maybe Harry having to deal with Murphy's family). Or with true love (Harry's protection) or everything at once.

And probably dealing with Papa Raith one way or another. Maybe Lara finally killing him, because she now has a strong ally with the Winter Court and can openly act as Whampire Queen.