Yes,  the sun’s out and i am the proud owner of a new clever phone that will enable us to get lots more pictures up here on the site.

Er, lucky you…

Yes, the home of the slightly unwashed seasonaire is being reduced to a big concrete shell and a hole in the ground. Which means that the carpet is probably slightly less sticky than it used to be. Olly is probably weeping at this very moment at the loss.

Yes, I am aware that sometimes I use this blog to yap on about giant statues of roses (thanks to Tom at CK for pointing out they’re not tulips). But this is more important.

Much more important.

Because Rich and Gina are doing something that is simultaneously daft and commendable and for charity – they’re cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End for a young lad called Oli who has Cerebral Palsy and is supported by the brilliant charity Cumbria Cerebral Palsy.

Well, they set off next week (so it’s probably going to start raining) and they need your support – so please visit their Facebook page and like it, and you can sponsor them by clicking here. Go on.

And please tell everyone you know.

Things are happening up on the mountain and it seems to involve helicopters a lot. Brilliant.

There’s a reason things have been quiet on the Verbier blog front. It’s because things have been quiet in Verbier full-stop. But now there are more humans in town and it’s all gearing up for summer season.

So The Powers That Be have decided it’s time to add some art. And they have clearly been watching Alice in Wonderland or listening to too much Velvet Underground, because this is what they’ve built.

Interesting eh?

I always say that no Mountain tourist destinantion is ever truly complete without a forty foot tulip.