Memphis Belle

We went to the Air Show at St Cloud today. Amazingly there was a Flying Fortress (B-17) which you could fly in. We settled for a walk-through - T was rather disappointed on that compromise, but we were amazed. Still quite thrilling though. They make a lot more fuss of war Veterans here; a bunch of real life heroes were there to chat about their past.

Surprisingly, there was also a Luftwaffe vet, and, what I suspect, though this would have to be proved, a contingent of the local Neo-Nazis (quite big in Minneapolis).

You can see the pix on my facebook page.

Tea and Hamburgers

The local corner-shop has obviously missed a gap in the market. They have completely sold out of PG-Tips. Did they not realise that everyone has their parents over from the UK at this time?? Alas, we will have to move to Yorkshire Tea instead (the cheap one).

Harry's project for the week is doing the lilac hedge. It's about 15 foot long, but, with the surprising heat during the day, may prove to be similar task-wise as the painting of the Forth Bridge.

We went to see Treasure Island today at the local AmDram. It's not bad there as their productions are only about an hour, with no interval. T thought it was great, and no-one fell asleep. Afterwards, we tempted their palates with the best Minnetonka can offer - Snuffy’s. Hamburgers and malted shakes all round!

Hotmail Woes

I have still not managed to recover my hotmail account. I am a bit peeved, as, 15 years after first creating it, the nearest I can get now is an email address prefixed with hurra04, which at least makes me feel cheerfull each time I log on.

The hotmail team ignored me for the first week, and are now sending me e-mails asking me if I have done things I mentioned I had done in my original e-mail.

So for now, I am lounging in the arms of Mozilla and GMail, so yah-boo-sucks!

I had my hair done again - it's getting shorter each time - and also got waxed, as it should be summer for at least another 6 weeks. I was intrigued - the "Epi-Lady" had the hairiest arms I've ever seen.

I also had a pedi. Speaking to my mate Andrea, we weren't sure if a pedicure is actually quite classy, or everso slightly common. While I make up my mind, my toe-nails are a dark purple, which, obviously looks as if I have either dropped a plank across all ten-toes, or spent the afternoon sellotaping raisins to them.

We have 10 tomatoes on our 8 tomato plants. We shall be holding the christening next week.

Internet Shenanigans

I am currently suffering from a bout of Internet shenanigans, which unfortunately are not within my control. It seems that someone has managed to hack into my Hotmail account and changed the password. This means, obviously, I cannot answer any emails. It also means that should you receive an email from me with a subject header "Open this, this is ammayzink" (sic), with an attachment, it probably won't be a recipe for delicious chocolate ginger slump cake, but more likely to be a virus (of the non-piggy variety).

I would go in and change the password, if only the facility for doing this on Hotmail wasn't currently being displayed in Chinese...It currently looks as though my "secret question" is "Tender fragrant grass, how hard-hearted people can trample them?".

The parents-in-law's trip, so far, is going swimmingly. Although she hasn't said anything, I think Marney is quietly impressed that you can buy instant porridge containing sweets, and that my washing-up liquid has a built in air-freshener.