Well as you can see the best laid plans fell at the first hurdle. Whilst four of us were awake one was very decidedly asleep and stayed that way until she woke, grabbed Teddy and stalked off upstairs. So the fireworks live to fight another day.

The meal was excellent, but no way am I used to the chillies from Thailand and it took half a mango and some beer to calm the fire down.

I'm not sure what it was - perhaps the collective sleeping sickness of their household but today I'm drowsy and can't settle to do anything. I made it into the town today but I felt so ill I had to come home straight away.

I've added a new sidebar to this blog which is powered from another weblog so it makes the editing consistent and easy to do. It uses the MT plugin Multiblog. I've tried plugins before but had no real luck with them so this has gone very well. The rest of my day has been taken up with a trip to Blockbuster and a stack of DVDs to watch. Sometimes the sofa is the best place to be.