Thursday 30 January

Trust me, I'm not going to hurt you - said AC to Le, just before she had her stand facing away from her - and gave her a quick sharp and just a little harder than gentle shove forward. When Le asked the equivalent of "What The ..." AC explained that that was how you could tell which foot you would lead off with when you were water skiing - I suppose, in hindsight, that that was the natural next step since we had been talking about "dominant" hands.

Kung Hei Fat Choi Horse

Earlier in the day, AC had done the rounds of the office and the crib room with her "Honeycomb bouquet" offering milk-covered honeycomb to the troops - with the bottom of the packet scrunched in her hand and the top of the packet spread wide. You had to give it to her ... it did look like a bouquet.

Today marks the start of Chinese New Year ... The Year of the Horse. In at The Big House, they had Lion Dancing (although, really, they do look like dragons!) in the Foyer, in the Casino, upstairs ... but only for a short time for each. Hopefully this will mark the start of an auspicious year all round (although, reading some of the Chinese horoscopes, especially the one in The Sun, this is not likely to be the case!).

Alas, it may be that it's going to start tomorrow because we did no good at CSP - we should have listened to the guy who had already been there - a frequent player who said that everyone who approached the table today had walked away with their pockets lighter!

Dinner tonight was at Spinners. M and I shared Trio of Dips, Stir Fried Vegetables and Chips. In retrospect, we could have done without the chips; I only felt like a taste but, of course, they don't serve "a taste" of chips.

It rained several times at work today but it wasn't one of those days when the Heaven opens and it buckets down in the minutes leading up to quitting time.