Notes to Self for the New Year 2018

Okay, it really could get worse but if in need of rescue try the following:

1. Salzburger Nockerl ... and don't even think of anything less than the full eight eggs.

2. Engage strangers at nearby table to accomplish task, proving that conviviality is possible if there is common cause.

3. And if it really does go to hell in a handcart, then, and only then, take the dumpling of last resort ... the Germknödel. Yes, that is a Brexit/Trump/Office for Students/having to deal with 'men who use feminism as a stick to beat Islam' proof dumpling the size of a soup plate, covered in a mound of poppyseed and sugar, sitting in a pool of butter, with a spiced plum jam reservoir in the middle. My arteries, like the rest of me, will go down fighting.