The cold weather is
setting in and there's a little nip in the air; so we thought it was high time to wheel
out our shiny new soup urns and put them to good use.

Ronny was cooking all night to
come up with some hearty treats in the form of hot soup for us all and, not only
did he fill our bellies, it was nice to get everybody together in the basement
for a lunchtime chin wag.

Ooooohhhhh lovely.

The W+K trip to Kentucky last week ended with a rather enjoyable and 'interesting' evening at the Louisville Rodeo, as guests of Brown Forman.

For those of you who've not been to one, it consists of dressing up like an extra from The Dukes of Hazzard and watching increasingly limping gentlemen essentially beat animals up.

Paulo got into the spirit of things by attempting to eat his own bodyweight in free burgers.

and then he & Chris Groom settled down to watch the 'Steer Wrestling' (fat blokes in plaid shirts beat up small cows)

Then we finished up by watching a few more damaged young men nearly fatally injure themselves on the back of bulls (whilst being encouraged loudly by members of the Tea Party and a criminally unfunny clown in a barrel)

A jolly good time was had by all