Saved, as often, by Handel. I was beginning to think I was weary of music and needed to take up something else (golf? jam making?) But Natalie Dessay singing Handel for 60 minutes turned me around. Backed up, of course, by Emmanuelle Haïm, Stéphanie-Marie Degand, and Patrick Beaugiraud (oboe). What a team! And what music. A bit odd that the French seem to have a Handel monopoly recently; but we can all sit back and enjoy it.
Even the food looked up after yesterday evening's disaster. True, a choucroute Alsacienne out a tin is not high gastronomy; but it tasted good. I must get some more tins when I am in France later this week.