Hi All,
Well, it’s been a long old winter. Last week the temperature shot up to almost 70 degress…for a day…and now it’s back down to 35. For you Brits, that basically means that it went hotter than a British and then colder than a British winter within 24hrs!!! Crazy crazy!! At least the sun is shining and Em and I are taking a well deserved trip to Mexico in a couple of weeks. I just hope those drug lords keep their gun battles well away from our stretch of beach!!
Sorry to harp on about the cold here, but it really is a shock. I guess I arrived on the cusp of winter last year and so thought it was all exciting. The Boxing day blizzard here was fun, but now I’m simply over it. You’d have thought with all this body hair, that I’d be able to withstand a drop in temperatures, but in actual fact, I deal with it by throwing my toys out of the pram!!!
Thankfully the cold has at least brought on 2 of my favorite pastimes. Skiing and Driving.
Went on a couple of day trips to “Hunter mountain” just north of the city. Pretty fun, but too small a mountain so spend any more than a day there. Amusement was brought by a colleague drinking his way up on the bus, forgetting his ski jacket, wearing aviators, no helmet, push a guy over on his first run and then do a jump and smash up his collar bone on his second run. Fortune favors the brave hey?!
I’ve been lucky enough to take out a couple of Porsches this month. The first, a bright orange 1968 ‘911 was fun but tough. Kind of nuts to think it was 40 years old. The second was a much newer 911 Turbo. The fastest thing I’ve ever driven and makes this wooshing airplane noise when hit 4k revs. Suffice to say I felt like a kid in a toy car. Except that it wasn’t a toy!!!
Em and I drove up an hour north of the city to the Hudson valley region. Really is a beautiful part of the state, with pretty villages, restaurants, bridges etc. No doubt we put on a few kilos from the food and had a very interesting time in a place called Cold Spring – my mother would have loved it here with all the antique shops. I think we brought the average age down to about 65 and the locals were either extremely nice or extremely rude. On the nicer side was a Welsh lady called Leonora who got very excited to hear I was from just down the road from where she grew up! We spoke in our put on Welsh accents for at least 15mins!!!
Which brings me on to the subject line. March 1st is/was St David’s Day. A day for all to celebrate leeks, daffodils, rugby, sheep and anything else myself and my fellow brethren are proud of being Welsh. Or to paraphrase the great Josh “Shippo” Shipman – “It’s the only country where you can have a good meal, have sex and make a woolly jumper all from the same animal”!!!
So a Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant Hapus to all of you and I hope to hear from you soon!!
(And hopefully I’ll be seeing some of you too. A small chance I’ll be coming home in mid April)
Jamie
PS The first photo is from Burn's Night. After a few glasses of wine, i got up and did the William Wallace monologue!!
And if you hadn't worked out the second one, it's a picture of me holding a real life brain. It stank and was surprisingly heavy!!
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