I'm still walking - True Grit

A trip to the doctor on Monday after I felt sharp pain in the side of my heel for several days revealed tendon damage. The doctor's advice rest, elevation, ice, bandaging and anti inflamatories. Well I said that's tricky I'm off to lead a group of students on a walking tour of Washington DC and New York City at the end of the week. Perhaps not surprising he didn't recommend this, and said I could do further damage. Frankly no alternative, the trip 18 months in the planning, and with most of the bookings in my name. In the immortal words of Van the Man : "It's too late to stop now".We leave on Friday morning, bag nearly packed, a further last week crisis when my co-planner has had to pull out for family reasons has been averted through the recruitment of an Australian teacher, it will be interesting to witness USA through his eyes, he's never been there before.

If the foot gets too bad, I'll taxi around and meet the group at various locations, in the meantime, its strapped up and I've dusted off some old basketball boots for protection.

Monday saw the arrival of the new DBT album, more once I've listened more. However before an excellent Valentines Day meal at Nirvana, Ingatestone we squeezed in a trip to the cinema to see True Grit. Coen Brothers at their best a remarkably mature performance from 14 year old Halle as the maain female lead and story narrator, Jeff Bridges gives an excellent performance as well, its just a fine film that never sags, and is filmed in fine detail and with a good feel for the period.