The world is becoming a small village. Agkistri is a small island.

I cannot get the bamboo beer idea out of my head. It tastes nice (bitter in the beginning and sour at the end) esp. with a slice of lemon or lime (the "Corona Beer way"). You know who is brewing this fresh appetizing "white (Weissbier) beer " ? : www.brouwerij-strubbe.be in Ichtegem, on a 15 kms drive from my house... Astonishing, isn't it ? Qing Zhu Pi Lu Bamboo beer from...Ichtegem, a village with a bakery, a church and a butcher.

Mr. Strubbe, owner of the brewery, even has a licence for brewing "bio"beers. Now I am thinking of developing a kind of "sports" beer or "health-beer", which means I need to add an extract of bamboo leaves that can meet up to its name. Bamboo leaves seem to contain a lot of silica, flavonoides... all good things which keep your body last longer.

Anyone who can help me on that is welcome to react.

Mrs Sam Pickering, a very gentle woman managing her own company www.hempfabric.co.uk ordered two full roles of bamboo jersey fabric. Thank you very much. Right she is : this is such a soft comfortable fabric and black as a colour offers a lot of possibilities.

The demand for fabric has increased over the last days. Strange how sometimes demand for /orders of products are concentrated in time. Just as if people are contaminating each other with the same ideas across borders at the same time.

We had a couple of lovely hot days, enabling me to mow the lawn, cut the hedges, ride my bike. My wife took the opportunity to run around naked the whole day. That is what I call a hot summer.

Yesterday evening, we were invited by Lieve, our good friend, (who by the way is in bamboo too : www.indochine.be) to enjoy a nice meal and to learn about the island Agkistri (one of the Argo-Saronic islands) which everyone of course knows...

If you wanna go Greek on an island that nobody knows with a diameter of 7 kms where you can chill in silence, then that's the place 2B.

Enjoy summer !