We Do Adventure

Dedicated readers would have noted the Ben & Jerry reference made about a week ago. A good friend, who may or may not have read that post, noted a similar comment in a recent email and took steps to rectify our problem. This morning we received a surprise parcel when we turned up at Klub. Pictured is, if I can say this without sounding heretical, the bible of ice-cream: a how-to guide written by two guys who really know how-to. All we need now is to source our ingredients and get freezing. Needless to say this made us two very happy people today.

I'm munching on what appears to be a plastic replica of a Jaffa cake but I'll resist the temptation to type another food related blog. Instead I should report the good news that we signed a contract on an apartment today. This has been some time coming. We don't move till next week but this is another step in the right direction. When they say 'let patience have its perfect work' it's all to easy to equate patience to hanging on an hour or two. We're learning that an hour or two is nothing. Again, they say 'it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive' and I can see that if you live only for the destination there might not be a lot of living going on. I love the movie Elizabethtown . In it there's phone conversation where one the main characters asks the other 'I've always wondered this: who are they?' The same question could be posed in this post. In the first instance they is James, the no-nonsense letter-writer from the Bible. H...