Quit your day job. Go on. I dare you.

Kaffee Klatch is a German word.

(KAH-fee klach): noun (from German Kaffee = coffee + Klatch = gossip): a casual gathering for coffee and conversation, usually accompanied by pastry.

Not here in Chamonix, though. Here the gossip and conversation is accompanied by hard-core skiing.

I skied with the Chamonix Girls today. Lisa, Ali, Genviere & Sarah. We skied off the Midi, ski-touring for a couple of hours up to the entrance of the Entreves coulouir - a very steep and gnarly ski down to the village of Entreves in Italy which has just made my must-do list of runs I want to do this winter. Then the decent. Sublime. Skiing fresh tracks in glorious sunshine all down the pictch we’d skinned up and then back down the Vallee Blanche on a new route to the right of the glacier I’ve never done before.

A brilliant day’s skiing - I’m so glad the girls invited me along.

pics. comme dab.

I’ve been addicted to many things at various points in my life. Booze, fags, weed; the list goes on. But when I got down from the mountain today I realised that I can add skiing to that list. I am addict.

I haven’t been up skiing for nearly a week. The snow’s been rubbish and I’ve been waiting for more, doing some work and well…. just not skiing. I was starting to feel sad, anxious and unhappy. Then I went skiing again today with a bunch of friends and what do you know? I grinned all day and feel amazing this evening. The French have an expression for it, which I love. ‘On a la banane‘. Literally meaning ‘I’ve got a banana’, it means I’ve got a grin on my face the size of a banana.

I guess there’s worse things to be addicted to.

Now the pooter’s fixed I spent the day making the film I was trying to make on Sunday. It’s a much improved version of the All Mountain Performance promotional video. So much better. the editing, the sound, everything. It’s visually better too, with some newly learned techie tricks, but more importantly it has a better narrative and holds together more as a film. Well chuffed I am :)

I’m even in it! That’s me in the yellow trousers about half ay through. There’s work to do still, but I’m feeling like I’m starting to get the hang of this now…

After a very fraught 24 hours, I finally got the damn macBook running again. With a bit of help from my excellent mate Hutch who not only had a full generic Leopard installer, but also knew how to use it. So wallop - the machine is up and running and would you Adam & Eve it? The version of Quicktime that ships with Leopard is exactly the version I was trying to install when I broke the damn thing in the first place. Sweet!

Thank god. Or maybe thank Jobs. But definitely, thank Hutch :)