More California

It's been a while since I last posted. Too taken up with the joy of finding some fresh air (almost anywhere in the UK, after LA) and the delightful schadenfreude of the MPs' expenses saga. To say nothing of cheese free food.

I'm off again on Sunday. Better prepared for the psychological onslaught. Better equipped with local knowledge, who does cheese, where you can avoid it. Familiar if complex freeway routes (pronounced routs as in row and rowt not root), knowledge that LAX is still a building site.

Wondering if any of the State's recently issued IOU's will be floating around, thrown away in despair by those who would prefer hard cash from the world's 5th largest economy (that's California btw).

Happy days are here again...