…before you lose them both. Or plan B: have the best-organised in-laws in the world keep the spare one that came with car 11 years ago. Usually I wait till day 2 or 3 of my holidays before I lose important stuff…

Close my eyes and I can almost taste the tacos…

Probably not much blogging over the next week as I’ll be trying to cram in as much Mexican goodness as possible in the heart of Jalisco… Email me if you’re up for catching up while I’m around. Tuesday-Monday…

Gabriela Cilmi revived this song for me, but the Martha and the Muffins’ original has the edge, despite featuring a sax solo.

I think this might be the next song I do a badly-sung acoustic cover of on YouTube.

La Flaca has 32,500 views now… and apparently being told “tio eres el puto crak” is a good thing in Spain. Those crazy iberians…

All seems well enough down in Southern California, round Downey way that is… One of these photos is Atticus exercising his remarkable rehabilitation skills on Martin who’s looking very well indeed despite his recent surgery. The other is the house that M & S will be moving in to in a month or two.

Flickr’s got the hiccups today, so the photos might not display right just yet…

In other news, I got my laptop back from the repair place with a hefty bill for a new fan. Windows was nagging me to activate it again despite it being genuine paid for software and giving me grief from all angles. T’was the final straw. Am presently installing Ubuntu, Heptatic Hedgehog or somesuch. Seems to be going smoothly enough.

Gave the Lente Tapatio peeps the heads up today on upcoming visits. One of these days I shall plan some kind of itinerary for next week’s guadalajaraing. Can’t wait…

…And I took a few snaps… This is going to be FUN

If you’re interested in one, it fits on the end of most DSLR lenses and I may manage some kind of review soon. Here’s the Amazon link in the interim.