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Those of you who are faithful reader of Mike’s blog already know that our flight from LA to London on Virgin (a day and a lot of headache and hassle later than planned) went pretty smoothly. After cooling our heels for an extra 24 hours at the Hilton LAX, I enjoyed a couple of glasses of champagne in the Virgin lounge before boarding and we headed to the plane, where I enjoyed a couple of three more glasses in my comfy seat with my feet propped up for take off.

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Some of you probably read Mike’s recent post about his buckling down and finally cleaning up the boar’s nest that he had amassed at his end of our breakfast table, complete with before and after photos.

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Well, I finally took the plunge and migrated my blog over to Word Press, as my darling husband did some time ago. I don’t like giving up what I’m familiar with and venturing out into the unknown without at least a little bit of a fight. (I’d probably still using Easy Writer software or Wordperfect, if computers nowadays didn’t come preloaded with Word.)

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One of the News Headline article links that Mike put up the other day caught my eye (as they often do) and made me click to see what was up. The headline or title of the article was
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While pushing our way up one aisle and down the next through the milling throng at the recent Natural Foods EXPO West, sampling this and that, I had to do a double take at one stall that read “Certified Organic Cotton Candy”.

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A reader sent us a heads up on a just out Newsweek article by Anne Underwood, titled “Mmm Tasty Chemicals” about the upcoming publication of a sort of tell all book about America’s iconic junk food: the Twinkie.

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Alert reader and low carb adherant Nancy C. sent us a question the other day that we couldn’t really answer. Maybe someone else out there in Blogland can help with it or has some cogent thoughts on the subject; thus I thought I’d put it to the readership.

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A reader from Scotland sent this link to an upcoming survivor type reality show called “Fat Men Can’t Hunt”.

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Fennel, native to the Mediterranean, grows well in the similar climate of the California Central Coast. It grew in abundance all over the uncultivated slopes of our erstwhile avocado ranch, along with prickly pear cactus, both now sadly unavailable to us. But no matter; just as it does abroad, the plant grows wild here, springing up plentifully on roadsides, hillsides, vacant lots, and cracks in the sidewalk.

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