July 26, 2026

New game, new luck, new circular email. Or dialogue mail, as we now call it. Let's just say: last week we spent a lot of time answering your letters. Deep in the inbox, the thought even briefly came up to make a new series out of it: "You write, we write too," or something similar. We can certainly do that, but even if we supposedly don't care about anything, almost anything, we first have to do our duty here: advertising. Yes, a terrible word. Advertising in general: rather unpleasant. But you signed up here, not us. So close your eyes and get through it. Wait, stop. Open your eyes, of course.​

Because today on display: Jacket 'Heinz'. Good linen jacket. Green. Do you want to hear more about it? Because: theoretically everything is on the page, for those who are interested. And what it's really about here: you can see it in the pictures. So how to combine it or how it can be combined, how it looks, how it falls, how it fits - and above all, how we sit in it. At the bar, that is. Preferably. Especially now with these temperatures, you should drink a lot. So we do. But not just anything.

Vilsa Carat, for example, should be avoided. Not because it's Vilsa Carat, but because - connoisseurs know what I'm talking about - when you hold these undignified lukewarm Tetra Paks in your hand, you're usually looking out into the middle of nowhere from somewhere between Bremen and Kalkriese in an Interregio at 40 degrees. Standing sitting or sitting standing, but always thinking: the Deutschlandtakt will arrive in 2070. True story. Sad story. A heart for Deutsche Bahn.

But back to the topic, you should drink: We can highly recommend Skinny Bitch at this point. Water, vodka, ice & lemon. Wonderfully hydrating, and after three of them, we still hit the dartboard. On the edge, but at least: it's on the board. Wait, we're getting sidetracked, because you're now rightly thinking: Vodka? Isn't that Russian and means 'little water'? "That's right!" we call out to you. So we're drinking water with water and ice, and ice is also water! And the lemon is fruit, so it's healthy, so if you like: we're drinking a spritzer here. Water with flavour.

And sitting at the counter writing these lines, we call it work. Well, work, well, in this case: it's advertising, you're right. Here's a thought: advertising is also when our favorite airport Münster/Osnabrück puts cardboard cutouts at the gate, from which Mickie Krause greets us with the words "I'm flying from here, just like you" and we ask ourselves: does this speak for or against the location? We also ask ourselves: who paid whom and, above all, why? And we inevitably ask ourselves why we know who Mickie Krause is. Somewhere we took a wrong turn.

Which brings us back to this newsletter:

Jacket Heinz. Good jacket. Please buy.

Ingredients:

4 cl vodka (the good stuff!)

15 cl soda water or sparkling mineral water with plenty of fizz (no Vilsa Carat - you know why)

Fresh juice from ½ organic lemon

Ice cubes (not crushed ice, so the drink doesn't dilute too quickly)