Chip's Place

I still have a job, which is good news. Now I have to state a preference for whether it stays the same job, or whether I move on to something different, and then fight that out with everyone else who's in the same position. That'll be fun.

But now I definitely get to go to see the tennis (and other things that I'll be doing out there - that's the only one that I really care about right now though!) Assuming I book some flights, get a visa, book hotels, travel insurance, organise clothing... (this latter not obvious - I live in England, which intersperses one afternoon of weak sunshine every 3 years or so with otherwise continual leaden skies, so I own no suitable clothes for visiting Australia for 6 weeks in the height of their summer. Plus I'm planning a few days of skiing in Canada on the way back, and I'm not sure I want to lug a pair of salopettes and a skiing jacket all the way round the world!)

Planning skills are not my forte.

New place for lunch today. Dusk - only recently opened, and I'd quite liked the look of the menu, so I, as Lunchtime Dictator for today, decided we'd go there. Very good. I had a deli plate, which was some bread and oil together with any of about 30 cooked meats, cheeses, nibbles, dips, etc. Really good - I had goat's cheese, broad bean and coriander cakes, jerk chicken and marinaded red peppers. Unfortunately for others, my ordering jinx struck slightly to the left of me today. Neal's food was inedible - what they appeared to have done was to take a chicken breast, wrap it in Parma ham, then mistaken it for a conker and done all the traditional things to it to harden the shell. Which worked very well in this case - he couldn't cut into it at all. Still, he got a free sandwich out of it.

Will still include it on the list of possibles - difficult to screw up the deli plate thing, and also hard to exhaust the combinations available there.
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