La soupe est trop salée

Quand il y a plusieurs cuisiniers, la soupe est trop salée // When there are several cooks, the soup is too salty

Today’s prompt is “soup”, soupe.

The quote is allegedly an Italian proverb, its English equivalent being “too many cooks spoil the broth”, and much more scary Russian one «у семи нянек дитя без глаза» (“seven nannies — a kid without an eye”).

In quarantine news, nothing much. Canaries are expecting a go-ahead from the health ministry for the remaining five islands to enter into Phase 1 of de-quarantining (we are now at Phase 0). What that entails, we’ll see soon enough. So far I can see that small businesses which were originally intending to wait till 11th to open, are opening already. Small observation: although time seems to be dragging endlessly, the quarantine-related rules and regulations are changing way too fast still. As a consequence, right now every shop has a selection of opening hours, conditions of service and maximum number of customers displayed in their window. Some of these hastily printed notes contradict each other, especially the opening hours. In good news, I bought myself a new sketchbook at Carlin. It has 80 pages, so I am hoping we will be finally leaving in “new normality” when I finish it.