It's been 2 weeks since my knee injury and the cabin fever has ended.
I've managed to get out and about sporting my rather stylish knee brace. The trickiest part is getting down the steps of sheet ice from home to the road.
The Doc says I've got 2 more weeks to go before I can start skiing again. In the meantime, my lovely brother has posted out a Care Package consisting of all 5 series of The Wire. This means all our high brow intentions have been shelved for now and we are counting down the days until we can immerse ourselves in the narcotics problems of Baltimore and McNulty's bad behaviour.
We went to Colmar today and walked around the old fort, built to protect Savoie from the French when they were separate countries, looks like it's now available for wedding hire.....progress in a way I suppose.
On the way back we stopped at the socca hut, I've been wondering what socca is since we got here. Well, the socca man looks like a cartoon Frenchman drawn in an episode of Felix the Cat. He is very happy in his work. Socca is a giant, fluffy pancake make from chickpea batter. The hut has a wood-fire oven inside and the pancake is made in a huge frying pan. A bit of pepper on top and that was lunch. It was delicious. Someone ought to open a socca hut in Borough Market, so much better than a crepe. I think Will and Russell will like a spot of lunch there when they visit later this month.
Oh yes, I've also done a bit of knitting whilst I've been incapacitated/incarcerated. Production so far is 2 hats, 1 neck warmer and a selection of dogs from a postmodern, ironic, hilarious, handbook called 'Best in Show, knit your own dog'(the best Christmas present, thank you Hammy and Emma). The Fox Terrier turned out ok (but I do have a live model to work from), the Pug hasn't got any ears yet as I ran out of brown wool and the Westie was a tragedy, it has the stance of a dog with a chronic worm problem and looks more like a Puli than a Westie. But it has turned out to be a perfect duster for Paul's computer screen, so that's saved it from the bin for now.
