I hope you’re not going to tell us that you ate those after performing the feat;-)

Or at least snorted them at someone as an amusing jape!

Entertaining the troops at the Christmas Party

Thanks for the letter and postcard ma. The postcard arrived today; is it of an alley near where you are?

I will forward the letter on to France soonest.

Things are fine back at the homestead. I think we still have all the chickens and Minion’s rehabilitation is going well. She is allowed in the house during to day if someone is in, but gets restricted to the kitchen if not.

We are currently eating leeks, kale and the occasional bit of lettuce from the garden.

Anyone fancy going to the Isle of Wight festival next year? Apparently it’s mid June and tickets go on sale on December 10th. My brothers + girlfriends and various other hangers on appear to be going for the duration.

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Croatia rose to the occasion in their crucial Euro 2008 defeat of England – after an apparent X-rated gaffe by an English opera singer at Wembley.

Tony Henry belted out a version of the Croat anthem before the 80,000 crowd, but made a blunder at the end.

He should have sung ‘Mila kuda si plania’ (which roughly means ‘You know my dear how we love your mountains’).

But he instead sang ‘Mila kura si planina’ which can be interpreted as ‘My dear, my penis is a mountain.’

45km is quite a ludicrous amount ground to cover. I shouldn’t wonder if your feet are not covered in numerous blisters. Most impressive though; it puts our 8km walks in the lakes to shade!

It’s also a good illustration as to why I always used to get the second-to-last train back from Chichester, back in the day when I actually went out…

Our trip to the lakes was very successful. With the final guestlist comprising of Me, Han, Sue and Patty, we split our visit between epic walks and visits to towns and other places of interest. Jul, being partially crippled, stayed at home.

Han and I did three big walks in total: Cat’s Bells (returning via Derwent water, 4hrs), very pleasant and a good warm-up walk; Harrison Stickle (via Stickle Tarn, as recommended by Tan, 6hrs), good fun with a great decent down by Loft Crag; The Old Man Of Coniston (coming back via Swirl How, 6hrs), really good, steep climb up to the top of Old Man and good views on the way down.

I shall upload some photos when I can get Virgin to sort out our broadband!