Thursday Feb 9th

Rosy is coming over on Saturday for two weeks- YAY! We will be seeing the sights of Seattle for the weekend, then maybe heading out of town for a bit, over to the San Juan Islands perhaps, then to the Cascades or Olympic mountains. We might do the Cascade Loop. Or go and see Mount Rainier. As a result, I expect the blogging will change a bit. I will be too busy actually living life to think about it. It will be great to have a proper mate a last! I will carry on posting, probably with more photographs and less chat. I know you are disappointed, but them's the breaks.

Speaking of Olympics, the Torino Winter Olympics are starting. Hope I get a chance to see some of it. I suspect the stations here will only cover events which the States are guaranteed a medal in, but thankfully, that will be a fair few events. I especially want to see the snowboarding, so see what I am aiming at to get into the British team.

I went for a run today. I seem to have lost a bit of my impressive fitness. I was overtaken by a lady pushing her twins in a buggy as she jogged along. There were several of these in fact. I guess it's the new thing- jogging with a buggy (not having twins).

In other news, I cooked "Peppy Asparagus Shrimp-Toss" for tea. It sounds like a competitive sport in Thailand, or an ailment that teenage boys suffer from, but was in fact a very tasty dish.