Oi All,

just finished Xmas dinner (burp!)......could possibly have put on the odd kg in the last few days!...just what an already fat barstard needs with the 'alpine classic' less than a month away....oh well, nose to the grindstone (well feet anyway!). BTW, my brother-in-law & family are in ****et for the xmas holidays!...all are safe...they were in the hotel havong brekky, when the next thing water is lapping around their ankles....didn't know what the fark was going on...they were staying on the 4th floor & the water made it to the 2nd.....all safe thankfully...they are trying to get a plane to Bangkok today....looks like they might be hitching a lift on a RAF hercules......the place is totally stuffed according to my brother in law. he says the death toll will be much higher than has been suggested yet!

Hitchy