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Time, perforce to write a little about the skiing holiday.

alitalf has written a few words about the skiing and the weather, so I thought I'd put a slightly different perspective on it. One of the pictures under the cut is not suitable for vegitarians or vegans.

Not everything to do with skiing involves flinging one's self headlong down vertiginous mountans.

This is pot-au-feu, as served by l'Arpason restaurant, as demolished by

apademek . I do think that they could have got rid of the bone though.

apademek and I call photographing our dinners as "doing a Dorothy". A long story for another time.

One of the other restaurants, Les Chenus, situated right up on the Col de la Loze, has magnificent views and has long been a favourite. One of the things I remembered about it was that it had some evocative black and white photographs on the walls.

Sadly, it's not a good photograph of the original. I love this image for the bygone times that it shows. This unnamed lady is shown sitting in her mountain chalet. Everything seems to centre around the pot bellied stove to her left. The stove is in the centre of the room to maximise the distribution of heat around the room. This type of stove draws air in from the room to burn the fuel and this air has to be replaced by air from outside, so there is a continual stream of cold mountain air coming into the chalet. When I look at the original photograph, I cannot see anything in the room that is there for ornament - everthing is practical; the whole photograph shows what I can only describe as a person's existance and not a life.