Monday, 24 March 2008

Ski trip

Just back from a week's ski-ing in Les Arcs in the French Alps. Travelled overnight on the snow train - great fun - I turned down the disco so was the only one in good shape the next day. Great snow, unfortunately Paul had an argument with a tree on day 3 and the final score was 'Tree 1, Paul's ankle 0', so 6 weeks of crutches for him.






Fortunately he had his new laptop and wifi internet to keep him from going even madder than he already is. That's 4 out of 5 Forrows with ski injuries - can't quite understand how Saylos has kept in 1 piece so far?










Not entirely sure why Dr Saylos found
it necessary to go onto the balcony?
Or why he dressed as a doctor?


Grinden celebrated happy hour by drinking Beer in the Blizzard. I think he might even have his second T shirt on?











I was tempted by the pure French chique
of this Paris Eurostar advert for 'Cockpit'
the 'Eau de Toilette pour homme'.
But as they didn't do it in gorilla's armpit,
I gave it a miss this time. Probably better
for all concerned.













And talking of cocks, arrived home to
find a peacock we haven't got staring
at it's own reflection in our front door.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Just seen the top 10 Hubble photos. Absolutely mind-blowing. I just can't get my head around all this starting off in a singularity - a single point in space. Doesn't make any sense to me!

Recently, astronauts voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble, in its 16-year journey so far. Here's no. 1 - The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, areas spectacular as its appearance. It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.

http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2006/11/26/hubble-telescopes-top-10-greatest-photos/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chinanews.cn%2F%2Fnews%2F2005%2F2006-11-26%2F30611.html&frame=true