SCOOP! First pics

Hi all. I’m in a tearing hurry right now—the family arrive tonight and I’ve got to get the place super clean and everything—but here are some pics taken on my fancy new Japanese mobile phone.

Excuse the silly grimace, but it’s actually quite hard to take a photo at arm’s length while trying to get your head in the frame. Or at least it’s hard for me.

In no particular order:

I went skiing on Sunday (see story here).

Last night I cooked my first meal in our new kitchen, and there was so much left over that I was able to have a self-home-cooked Japanese breakfast the following morning. Packed full of crunchy goodness!

My preferred venue for breakfast on any other day.

The view from just down the road. That’s the local beach, with special thingies out in the water to protect the locals from the waves. It looks rather inviting, and I’m actually quite looking forward to summer (and it’s not often that you hear me say that).