Awoken at 9.15 by a call from the comet delivery chaps. 20mins later they had arrived and comment on the ancient device we were using. 20mins after that, they’d installed a fresh model…

The new cat

yes indeed, the first thing i thought when i saw the stone people i thought they looked remarkably like your paintings!

yes Mayumi has an iphone and it comes in very handy as a translator and gps device. Its like something out of 24 giving realtime satelite movement on googlemaps.

I wondered how you came by those kimonos. I must say, you look much more at home in them than Mama and I did in our Laurence of Arabia outfits in a kasbah in deepest Morocco where all the fiends were interested in was getting us so shamefacedly in their moral debt we had no choice but to unburden ourselves of hard currency.

Nice photos Jul! liked the one of the noodles on the line and the frog impression is uncanny;-)

Did I spot an iPhone on the table in one of the photos?