Hi all you CHers, Stan and I have returned (finally!) from our holiday in Australia and the US. The S. Ca. Hotluck was GREAT and thank you Curt and Susie for your excellent hotspitality :) We haven't had the chance to try all of the sauces yet but what we have tried are yum yum. As soon as the exchange rate comes up we will have to have some more sent over. We will definitely need to work on having a South Island hotluck in the future...anyone keen? Came home to a MASSIVE aphid attack on our (over-wintering) chile plants. I don't think I have ever seen so many in my life. Even the spider webs were black with the things. We lost about half of the chile plants but there were so many that it doesn't matter too much. Well, enough rambling from me.... Shona ********************************************* Shona Lamoureaux Ecological Modelling/Plant ecologist AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand lamoureauxs@agresearch.cri.nz *********************************************