So it's Sunday, the first day of breaking free from smoking, I'm on nicotine patches and while feeling a little spaced out in the morning am doing fine. It's early afternoon, I've just put a silverside on for a nice long slow cook for dinner (see a previous Iron Chef for the recipe), and it's started to rain for the first time in weeks. The lorikeets are going off, having the time of their lives! First chance they've had in a while to really get the dust out of the plumage.

And Kathy is right here with me.

Life is good.