• my diary

    that’s all folks (until the 29th, anyway)…

      The bags are packed, the fridge is cleared and my train departs in twenty hours or so – outside, the city is peaceful and the queues in the M&S food hall a week ago are well and truly gone. I have spent the last couple of days wrapping up for the week (and pretty much the year) trying to…

  • my diary

    the final straight…

      The Christmas page is up! It was actually up for an entire day before I realised that nobody could actually get to it from anywhere, hence the handy little link-in-a-box which took me most of an afternoon. The non-work Christmas organising continues apace; my beautiful tree is on her way after some time out last year, the travel is…

  • my diary

    it’s autumn already!

    It’s been a while! Man, it’s bloody cold. Apologies for the radio silence, but after spending the best part of three weeks in the summertime rebuilding the blog and latterly the website (or about half of it at least), a screen break was needed. If I sat in front of the keyboard all the time I’d have nothing to write…