I suppose the monkeys are acustomed to travellers having loads of goodies in their bags. Hope Sasha is still ok.

The ever-looming prospect of bird flu is concerning me at the moment as it seems that the fogies are off to goa just before the chickens have to be slaughtered by decree of parliament, leaving the task to myself and H. Thankfully H is willing to snap their necks if I hold them!

No footy this week, which makes three whole weekends without exercise. Well, apart from some walking in Cornwall and a jolly game of golf today with solid and his friend Chris. We played a form of matchplay, where the winner of a hole gets 2 points and second gets 1 and last 0. We thought if might make things more interesting and competative but I’m not really sure it did!

H and I spent this weekend in Cornwall, staying at a place called “Broom Parc”. Broom Parc was very close to the coast; in fact, right outside the back door was the clifftop coastal walk which goes round most of the cornish coast.

On the first morning, we strode out, heading eastwards along the precarious path towards the highest coastal point in those parts, “The Dodman”. However, it was pretty hard work and we soon realised we wouldn’t have enough light to make it back so we cut the trip short. So we drove to it on the way home and found it fairly spectacular. Will post some photos at some point.
We also visited the Eden project which was pretty good, but rather pricy at £12.50 per adult.

One notable sighting, was that of a dead dolphin that washed up on the beach as we were having lunch – it had been fairly mangled by rocks and soforth, but didn’t have any noticable bite marks, so we’re not sure how it died.

Our food cost a little more than 10 pounds between us, but it is a small price to pay when considering the rather small chance of catching malaria and/or leprosy whilst in cornwall!

hail t and s,

Sounds like you’re both are having a good time and I hope you avoid all the facinating and hideous diseases out there. Such as leprosey and the like.

H and I were visiting my gran this weekend and had a jolly time meeting cousins, aunts and uncles i haven’t seen in a while and H hadn’t met at all. And newcastle won their second game in a row which is more or less unheard of in recent times. Also, rumour has it that M O’Neil is preferring Newcastle over the england job, which is understandable…

I can provide you with everyone’s email addresses if you like, but I think the blog far superiour for any lengthy or short “group” messages.

J still hasn’t cut his hair or shaved his beard.

once uploading the picture, you need to drag it into editing window.

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Hail all,

Bring on the next version of lost! Here are some pics:

New Year fancy dress

New Year epic bike ride

January skiing trip.

skiing was good stuff. Pretty cold most of the time, but nowhere near as cold as it was last Jan. Unfortunately the coldness wasn’t offset by plush powder… Pinkie took well to blades and rich picked up boarding very quickly. Sharna did well on skis in the last couple of days. I didn’t manage any 360s on account of having a bad back. next time.

Played footy for the first time in ages today (though only for 15mins) and we won 1-0 and went 2nd in the table!? bit of a shock after the start of the season we had.

No celebrities spotted but apparantly Abramovich was skiing at the same time as us, but in a completely different part of the alps.