Dinner at the Cove with Jim, Frank and Jane.

Wine = Pinot Gris from New Zealand – Excellant

Starter = Cornish Mackerel – Lovely

Main = Cornish Fillet Steak with Wild Mushrooms and Blue Cheese. Totally artery clogging and perfect!

Finished with a small cheese board between two with no crackers for me.

Ordered Book from Arty, to be delivered to Japan.  His wife recognised me from two years previous! Maybe time to stop visiting the area?

Overall a fabulous night, with the most excellant food that could not be faulted. Basically another fantastic night at a wonderful restaurant that we both love.

One of the attractions for coming this time of the year is the Falmouth Oyster Festival.  Its now in full swing, and I’ve now at least 18 oysters from two different counteis.  I think I like the local Falmouth ones, bit sweeter,  will have to go and try again over next few adays to be totally sure!!

Also now have Claire from next door as my partner in Oyster eating crime.

Well arrived in good nick, wonderful flight really with loads of spare seats to relax in.  Food was good and service pleasant.  Didn’t get much sleep, but then again it was a day flight so sleeping was not a problem.

Heathrow was well heathrow, so no change there either.  Got to Steve place much earlier than expected, which was good as it meant we had time for a good catch up.  About the only unknown factor was the Malborugh Savingnon Blanc which he had oogles of. 

Its really the first time I’ve drunken wine since the chemo and add onto that an 8 hour time difference it was like being hit in the chest by a very pissed off horse, the wine had such a kick to it.  I was even being good and having water in between drinks to keep the hydration levels up.  So Thursday morning didn’t start very well.

Lucky for me there was only an hour left of Thursday morning so all I had to suffer was Thursday afternoon.  Oddly that didn’t make all that much difference.  2nd stupid thing was that I so missed burger king that it just seems like a great idea to have a Whopper for brunch cos I was so incredibly hungrey, and so still so incredibley allergic to flour products that I didn’t just get to enjoy a 5 hours car ride feeling like crap from too much wine, I also got to enjoy the insessant nausea from eating wheat. 

As I said to Jane, I wasn’t asking for any sympathy as I wasn’t even giving myself any, after all I know I shouldn’t eat wheat and no one forced that rubbish burger into my mouth.  Oh no, I did that all by my little self.  Anyway it all cleared up fairly much by the time we got to Falmouth and it was great to see old friends and met the new ones.  Just managed to keep brain and body working for dinner, but then it was crash time. Batteries dead.

Look out London, I’m on my way back!

The flights are confirmed, payed for and I have the e-ticket. Which actually just reminded me to take the e-ticket out of my work bag and put with my passport!

News from home, Donna had a successful c-section this morning and Abbey Ann Mary has joined the family. Pictures to follow as it was a bank holiday here in Japan and Andrew sent the pics to work email.

Mother and daughter are doing great!

Found a great blog today while looking for chilli paste recipes. Chez
Pim. I particularly loved the entry of telling people to stop ‘fu&king around with Pad Thai‘.
Its comment thats been long overdue, I remember from my time in
Thailand eating Pad Thai direct off the street. It was the ultimate
fast food really, and so so tasty. Chefs in the western world seem to
think need to fiddle with it, when really they should just leave it
alone.

I found another entry which outlined how to cook Pad
Thai, and lucky for me I had all the right stuff in the house, so
following Pims outline I wipped up a batch, and wow, was it good. Also
the mystery of how to cook it is gone, which while a little sad no
mystery, does mean no problems making more.

I’ve given up on trying give up coffee.  Having spent the last month of not having it and feeling like a flat pancake in the morning its time to recognise reality!  I think right at the moment I just need an extra kick in the morning to keep me going, or rather get the engine started.

This is came about because yesterday I couldn’t figure out why I had so much energy in the evening (I even sewed the button onto a pair of my fav shorts, and filed all my bills!).  Then it dawned on me I’d been at siga fredo’s for coffee! A little casting back showed that coffee has been helping.  And its not like I’m guzzling the stuff down.  One grande latte seems to do the trick very nicely thanks.

Well its taken about 3 weeks, but I’ve finally moved all the stuff from the Blogger blog site and all the newer stuff from Joomla into Serendipity, so its all here under one roof so to speak.

Interestingly its coming up to two years since I started blogging about life in Japan, and wow such much has happened.  I really wanted to move all the Joomla stuff over (and was really worried as the front end had crashed), and lucky for me I was still able to get into the administration and retrieve all the entries.  They were all the postings I had done during my recovery from Cancer so are very important to me.  Looking back on them it certainly was (and still is) quite a ride.

So now, its all in one place for anyone who wants to read it all!  (boring!).