San Diego and a room with a view over the Pacific. A low lying cloud made a big effort to swallow the sun and just about succeeded; not quite but impressive light. And I write this after watching a trio of dolphins lolloping through the waives in front of the window. Only the second time I have ever seen that - and the other time was off the Florida coast. Like a lot of the USA San Diego is a city of paradoxes, the rich and the poor rub shoulders quite easily - but there is a lot of rich around the coastline. Culturally its hard to determine, very hispanic in places.
Here is a picture of the band so bring on the dancing girls. These 'tin' figurines are about 3 feet high and I would really love to import them for the bottom of my garden, they are superb. The girls are real though and so I won't be importing them, after all why would they want to dance so far away from home. Oh, but as I write I heard some news, rest in piece Jessie Winchester:
