Thursday, June 3, 2010  Miami Vice  So, I'm back from a long,
long weekend with girlfriends in South Beach, Miami. Or "SoBe"
if you're hip and cool. Three friends flew in from London and
another came down from New York. I swear we spent the entire
five days (I know!) laughing and taking the mick* out of each
other. Oh I do miss a healthy dose of sarcasm now and then.  * -
to mock, tease, ridicule or scoff  The flight down was
interesting as the cabin temperature was somewhere in the sub
zero range, and since it was quite a new plane, there were no
little knobs you could turn to direct the icy blast elsewhere.
Then I realised why. Apparently on May 1st, American Airlines
stopped giving out free blankets. They are now $8 ("But yours to
keep, ma'am"). Bit of a coincidence that isn't it?  We stayed in
a house about a mile from South Beach itself. Very nice - big
pool, big bedrooms, huge screen to watch the French Open on
first thing in the morning. I had been going for hotels, but it
being Memorial Day weekend, t