So the thought of seeing Joe & Carina got me to Sri Lanka, where the heat hits you as soon as you get off the plane like a really big truck. Carrying an elephant. Which coincidentally I actually saw as soon as I left the airport. We spent a couple of days in a coastal fishing village where we managed to do loads! We went on a boat all around the mangrove swamps and the lagoon looking for water monitors and monkeys etc, I had an umbrella up the whole time so l...

So Christmas has been left so far behind in the distance that all we can see when we look back is the top of an over decorated tree disappearing over the horizon. The shock of it being a whole decade since the millennium isn't proving as easy to leave behind, but it is fading gradually with the thought that 2010 has more potential for adventure and magic than if Harry Potter found the Faraway Tree. Now that winter has stopped being fun as everyone can actually...