Well I’m still staying indoors and recovering from the flu. The benefits of this is that the food bill has seriously dropped and I’ve lost several kilos of stubborn fat – weighing in at 66.4kg this morning. Shows how silly my previous acceptance of yoyo winter weight gain really was. Had a rather unique telephone call yesterday which came though on Skype – free of charge over the mobile phone – from a remote village in the Himalayas. Haluk is out there heliskiing at the moment – hopefully taking care of himself. Probably more danger from viruses in Val d’Isère than of avalanche in the Himalayas.