Had a little up trend [ to -6] in temperatures last night and a few cm’s of snow. Clear again today with the wind back, bummer.

Wanting to sup on something warming I knocked up my version of this great easy soup. This one is Leek/potato/yam with not quite golden croutons. I used 2 leeks, couple of medium potatoes, 1 good size yam [sweet potato], 1 red onion, 4 cups chicken stock, ¼ cup sour cream with 3/4 cup milk and of course lots of fresh ground black pepper.

Staying with the root vegetable theme, how about the Brian Tobin eh? the ex pol turned business scum bag. For a guy who has no formal qualifications he moves in some high and moneyed circles. After it being announced that Tobin is a player in a mining company that is looking to develop a mine in Western Labrador we then hear he is being appointed as a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a right wing think tank. Not much thinking going on at the institute with that appointment. Tobin has the gift of the gab and very good at self promotion, in the business world he seems to be more like a pin ball, going from board to board, all over the map. Me thinks it is the users using the user then spitting him out when used up. Or they just wake up to the facts of the shallowness, janiform of the guy.

Moving on, I hear that we are not going to receive the NL Hydro request for an increase in our electricity rate, well not this year. The increase would have been around 19% here in the oil fired generation plant communities.
The Consumer advocate is taking credit for the change of heart at hydro.
Another school of thought is that it is due to an infusion of millions of dollars into Hydro’s coffers by the government, it will be an election year in 2007. Whatever, it is good news in areas that can not afford this type of increase, that is the argument the Consumer Advocate used in negotiations