Liv, no wonder you’re getting fat if you can identify varieties of doughnuts from small pictures. And no wonder I’m getting fat if I eat three. Need exercise! Help!

This is the beginning of my fourth week at work and the excitement is almost killing me. I haven’t been for a swim in a warm sea for many months. I have to be in here at 7:30am today and tomorrow so I can do exciting things like write two examples of how I would treat people from different cultural backgrounds differently when dealing with their personal hygiene.

1) this place aint full of Muslims and Jews.
2) I’m not dealing with anyone’s “personal hygiene”
3) You wipe a Jewish arse the same as a Christians
4) What sort of world is it when you have to get up early to answer stupid questions like that when you could be at Om beach in Gokarn looking forward to your morning Puri Bagi, some body surfing accompanied by naked 21 year old girls and watching England narrowly beat the West Indies in a fantastically exciting climax to the test.

Oh yeah and I had to go to Sasha’s fat cousins wedding at the weekend and what did they serve at the reception? Champagne and doughnuts – like duh!!

God give me strength….

sisters – shari and sasha

Maybe this is fairly exciting and maybe it’s a disaster waiting to happen but Spielberg and Peter Jackson are making a trilogy of Tintin films together. They’re going to use motion capture – so in effect it will be real people made to look like a cartoon.

Also, Dod and Liv: I have been to badminton club on Mondays three times in a row and found it to be most excellent. Waiting times are almost nothing whereas excitement levels are pretty high. Fairly steap at £5 a time though. And anyway Dodman, I assume from you diagram that you have severed you two in twain.

Jul, welcome back to Blighty. I’m sure that you saw absolutely nothing of the UK from the air as you flew in due to the extreme cloud. We have been saving the crappy weather for you for some time now. April was on average 1c warmer than any other April in recorded history and we only 6% of the normal rainfall in the south east (which is suprises me since I’m sure we had none).

Now you’re back though we will be using our quota of grey, damp, miserable crap in one big clump of depression.

Oh, and I am around in the day at the moment for a little while before I start my new job at some time in the next couple of weeks. Mayhaps it shall clear up and dry up suficiently for a crud duel.

What a great World Cup we had! We finished above India and Pakistan and could even finish above the home team, West Indies.

sincerely,

alistair campbell

Congrats Jul on entering your mid-twenties – now you are exactly the same age as Liv and me.

I’m sure you had a great day and noticed that since you’re traveling the world there doesn’t seem to be the need to do anything different than any other day even though it’s your birthday. Relax, have fun, go out for a meal, see something or do something amazing. Same as every other day n’est pas? And just as exciting.

Therefore enjoy. For we are a happy privaliged few; those of us who out of the kindness of our hearts decide to dedicate months of our life to spending the wealth of rich countries in poorer countries. Verily the milenial Robin Hoods of our time – but without the nasty theft bit.

Right… enough gibber.