MONDAY EVENING. Today was a day of much eating, which is unhelpful in every other way except for providing qual blog material. We cooked as a house today so needed a good one pot massive food fest which came in the form of Jamie Oliver's fajitas (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/chicken-fajitas-with-homemade-guacamole) and the counter parts (fave word ever - it has featured at least twice in my most recent essay) of salsa and guacamole MY WIFE* HATTIE HAS JUST REMINDED ME OF SOMETHING VERY WORTH MENTIONING: once we had some 'guacamole style'  sauce that had ONLY 3% AVOCADO IN IT oh the trav. It was the worst guacamole style anything we had every had, so please just buy an avocado and mush it up by hand - so much more naturally green. I'm going to upload some expertly taken iPhone photos that don't really look too dazzling, but it still gives you an idea. I am a strong advocate that a plate should be colourful in two ways 1) The actual plate should be colourful - white plates make it look empty and sad, and 2) The meal itself should be colourful - anything in the green/orange/yellow/red/purple spectrum is brill. The best song to eat this meal with is this tidy little remix we all just discovered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aa6eTfeLbA, and the book you should read tonight (oh come on, a book per night is so doable...surely you've finished the 600 pages of A Fine Balance by now?) Like Water for Chocolate which is appropriately Mexican and recipe based, if a little too OTT on the magical realism. It does also feature the most annoying mother figure ever in the form of Mama Cita - enjoy that one.

* not actual wife