Subject: a mail from Henrike for Wendy From: "Hellmuth Stachel" Date: Fri, March 21, 2008 5:16 am To: paul@cim.mcgill.ca Dear Paul! Let us serve as postmen, and please forward the following letter to Wendy. It is a late answer to her Christmas-mail: ---------------------------------- Dear Wendy! Many thanks for your kind Christmas wishes and your recipe of 'Carrot Halva'. I will try this soon. It is a long time ago that we met in Brazil on a long journey to different picturesque places. In the meantime I accompanied Hellmuth to a meeting in France on the countryside near Montpellier. In summertime went with my choir to Tampere (Finland). Together with a choir from Tampere we gave concerts in churches and at other places. Finally we were sightseeing in Helsinki. In August my fifth grandson Thomas was born. He is a lovely baby caressed by his brothers. We met the young families with their children after Christmas for skiing holidays in our country house in Trofaiach close to Leoben. You can imagine how noisy and turbulent these days were for us grand-parents. Four of them already started with skiing, and two are able to ski down the slope without any help. These 5 boys are very different in their manner. We enjoy the kids as they are, though a grand daughter would be desirable, too. I hope you are in better health now and in good spirits this year. I would enjoy meeting you and Paul in Dresden or Austria. Is Paul still skiing? Yours sincerely Riki ***************************************************************************** Hellmuth Stachel Institut fuer Diskrete Mathematik Institute of Discrete Mathematics und Geometrie and Geometry TU Wien Vienna University of Technology Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/113 Tel.: (+431) 58801 11320 A 1040 Wien FAX: (+431) 58801 11399 email: stachel@dmg.tuwien.ac.at URL: http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/stachel *****************************************************************************