Update

Well, firstly, a mea culpa about Powergen: the day after I left my raging message on their answerphone, a guy from the complaints department phoned me back, saying that he'd sorted it out and even found out that we'd paid too much, so gave us a 40 quid refund, thank you very much. I don't know whether to laugh or cry really - does this mean I should contest every single bill I get in the future as a matter of fact, because there WILL be a mistake in it?
On a more positive note, I've just spent a week in beautiful Switzerland for half-term, and although taking my bikini proved a little optimistic, we had a very relaxing time, going bowling with my brothers and sisters, eating horse steaks, watching the snow fall (well, on TV at least, in some higher parts of the country), and doing the Swiss things.
I have to admit, I do not understand the taboo about eating horse meat around here. It is absolutely delicious, tender and very tasty, and yet when I say I've eaten horse, people look at me with a ferocious, scandalised way, as if I was an active human flesh-eater trying to justify my deeds. Somehow the cute factor, which also strikes a ban on veal (which you find just next to the horse section in supermarkets in my country, between beef and chicken) does not extend to the poor little lambs... Strange!




Mmmmm, yummy steak, I don't care that horses look so cute, they're animals!