I am still alive :o)

Haven't done much that is exciting enough to write about on this thing! Just been going about day to day things. Possibly the most exciting thing is I have been cooking things in my little toaster oven. I got a cooked chicken from a deli and made roasties and stuffing to go with it, and I made cookies last week. Today I am attempting to make cakes. I don't have a cake tin to make them in so I have to use Alison's yorkshire pudding tin. Hope that the cake cases are OK for use in a bigger tin than a normal cake tin otherwise I could have a disaster on my hands!

On Friday I'm going to Bangkok to meet the parents. Have a couple of nights in a swanky hotel in the city, then we're going to Kanchanaburi for a couple of days. After that it's back to Bangkok for one more day there with the parents, then after they leave I have a couple of days there to get in some shopping. Plan to find Tescos and get cake tins and a mixing bowl - who knew such objects would be so hard to find here in Vietnam! Might see some of the sights with the parents, but once they're gone I imagine time will be spent in the shopping centres and restaurants of BKK. Looking forward to some good Thai food, and there is also a great Lebanese restaurant. Am gonna check out Chinatown and see if I can find Gong Bao Ji Ding - I ate it in China and it was ace but I've not been able to find it since so hopefully I can find it there. I'm excited about all the lovely food I get to eat next week!!!