Cooking contest over the weekend

Looks like I often have to apologize for not being around my blog these days.
I had a hectic weekend and one hell of a week beginning.
Over the weekend cooking contest was organised in my town. It’s for tourist promotion purposes and was held in the city park. 18 teams were cooking traditional stew in a kettle over the fire. My team was actually my cycling club team (a few members).
This is our kettle

And these are mine and colleagues hands preparing tomato for the stew (mine are on the right - can you see my 100$ worth French manicure?)

And this is the cooking team (I'm the blond - fifth from the left)

This is me (on the left) through smoke - it was a windy day and smoke was everywhere :)

We didn't win anything but we did have a great time.

On Monday I had an appointment with a dermatologist. I have a few hundred birth marks all over my body and very fair skin so I've decided to go and get them checked. I did it at right time because the doctor said one was in pre-melanoma phase and has to be removed as soon as possible. All in all I have to remove two of them and I'll go through minor operation in September. It's nothing to be worried about but I won't know for sure if they are benign until after the operation.

Yesterday I went on a business trip and today was the first opportunity I had to write something here.
On a more cheerful note - Cecile from All I want and more has a great interview with author Kimber Chin and great GIVEAWAY - HURRY!!!

This was all from me, for now. Hope you had a great weekend.

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