Now, before you go through these photos it’s important we make one thing clear.

You see, we’ve all made fashion mistakes, and we all have a dodgy ski outfit lurking somewhere at the back of the cupboard. I had a particularly vile pair of tight purple race pants (with lime green flashes) that could induce nausea and epileptic attacks. And because we have all, at one time or another, owned something truly horrendous, we can spot someone else making that same mistake.

But when we went to Chamonix, France, we were looking for steep mountains, glaciers and everything we’ve seen in the movies. What we didn’t realise was that in Chamonix, the one-piece ski suit was not left in the nineteen eighties. It’s alive and well and usually day-glo… (By the way, the last one is probably the best).

And thanks to Dan, Donna, Sandy, Rich, Ben and Blaire for pretending to have their photo taken so we could discreetly capture the magic.

Went up just as the lifts shut yesterday and it look rather nice…

Thank you very much CK Verbier and Grazia for the mention. Nicol Kindness (aka Patience) skied with journalist Jane and her kids for the week and had a great time.

Click here to see the full article…

So, a bit of a traffic jam into town is not uncommon, but this one was more interesting… It appears a Renault hatchback decided to explode and the firemen got stuck in. All rather dramatic and resulting in an above average bus ride home.

(Don’t worry – the family who were in it all got out fine and saved the contents of the car before it turned into an inferno).

Yes, a stroll past La Channe this evening was a bit more Swiss than usual. But it was nice to see that a restaurant which was so obsessed with all things Swiss could (somehow) become even more Swiss for the evening… Anyway, we thought it was nice.

Well, I know it’s not nice to gloat, but our office looks like this and it’s brilliant. Gloat over. Sorry.