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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Sorry to have been away from the blogging desk, but as those of you who follow Mike’s blog will know, I’ve just completed a major covert operation: a large surprise birthday celebration for Mike back in our old stomping ground in Little Rock.

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It’s Derby week in Kentucky; the field of thoroughbred hopefuls will Run for the Roses on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs. Why do I know this? Because I grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, home of one of the country’s old line thoroughbred race tracks: Oaklawn Park. My grandfather taught me how to read a Racing Form when I was in grade school.

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Those of you who have been long-term readers of my darling husband’s blog will no doubt recall that he posted a few blogs (click here and here) from Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in the summer of 2005 when we were touring over there with the Santa Barbara Choral Society, the chorus I sing with.

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For Christmas this year, our son and his family gave us two tickets to Cirque du Soleil. The catch was that we had to travel to Dallas to collect our present, which we did early in February, when the ‘Corteo’ show happened to be there the same weekend as our younger grandson’s 5th birthday party.

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Sorry to have been so lazy at the blog desk of late, but we’ve been on the road and unlike Mike, I don’t do well blogging from the airport lounge or passenger’s seat of a car. Besides, doing so would require that I wrest control of the laptop and Verizon National Broadband from his grasp. Not an easy undertaking, I can tell you. I do much better from my own little old desk.

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My husband’s loose lips (or more correctly his loose finger tips) when he recently got blog-tagged by Regina Wilshire and revealed not only unknown parts of his past, but of mine as well, have reaped his (undoubtedly) intended result: I, too have been blog-tagged by Alcinda Moore.

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The weather turns chill, the days are short, Christmas is around the corner and that means it’s time for Hot Buttered Rum! Okay, I confess; for me, it means it’s time for eggnog, too, but I’ve already given you the low carb version of that in a previous blog.

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