You’ve got to read this - it’s hilarious…. It’s a bloke I met in Ireland last year - a cousin of some friends of mine. The funny bit is, this guy is just an 18 year old pupster, and yet has got it totally sorted :)
How to pull a straight guy if you’re gay
He’s only shown up here in Chamonix driving a Beemer X5 from the Milk and Honey club in Tabernacle street, London to the Clubhouse, Chamonix. Sweet job. They’re paying for his flight home after the new year & putting him up in the club’ouse for a few nights.
So anyhoo. Phil’s about, so we had a day’s skiing in the Houches. What you’re reading in the UK papers is true. There is no snow here. None. The pisteur boys are doing the best they can with the artificial snow machines, but if there’s no snow…. well there’s just no snow.
But I have found a whole new meaning to the phrase off-piste skiing. Grass skiing. Houches isn’t covered in boulders like the grande montets, so the thin snow cover is over grass, which you can sort of ski on if you go quite fast.
So I’ve been on my old atomic cross mountain ‘ave a bit ‘o that skis, and been shredding round the icy/rocky death on a stick - numpties on artificial ice rink that is skiing here now. And been really quite enjoying it thank you very much.
So the plan was that Katy and Fred were going to do Christmas dinner round at their place yesterday. They own the Delice in Les Houches, so the kitchen prepped a bit more of what was on the menu that night for us to have for dinner.
Somehow Katy managed to get home at 9am on Christmas morning, and was hanging all day in the kitchen on one hour’s sleep. So me & Fred (who does front of house, really – not cookin’) took over and knocked out a Christmas dinner for 10 people bish bosh.
It’s easy when the chef’s have already thought the menu through, stuffed the turkey breast and generally prepped everything for you.
We had; turkey breast stuffed with sausage meat with a tomato coolie gravy stylee sauce. 2 kinds of roasted potatoes, roasted vegetables and steamed broccoli.
Fred knows how to bang stuff in the oven and when, so I just went with what he said, and whaddya know – at about 9 in the evening we plated up 10 great looking, great tasting Christmas dinners to 10 hungry, tired people getting quickly tanked up on booze and they loved it!
Difficult not to feel a bit smug, really.
The Herse lift opened today on the Grande Montets. Perhaps it shouldn’t have. The rocks are not well covered and this is what happened to my skis.
So they’re in the shop and I’ll ski my old atomics till we get a lot more snow. Which according to the report is the end of next week for a big dump.