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The rail tickets (and see above), flight bookings, hotel confirmations and various bits and bobs for the next couple of months have today been carefully sorted into envelopes bearing the destination name (again, to anyone who wondered what we did with all the envelopes, see, they do get used!) and it’s been time to gradually [...]

Yay! As ever, we will have the traditional moment of reflection to think kindly of those unfortunate ladies who do not have annual birthdays, some only managing to clock one up once every ten years or more. It’s all terribly sad, in more ways than one. I am posting before bed but after midnight (so [...]

And after a rip-roaring week in That London, there surely isn’t enough fun left in the world for me have any more without using up some of somebody else’s allocation, which would be not only appallingly rude, but terribly selfish. I have luxuriated snugly in my beautiful hotel room complete with the Best View Ever [...]

And the morning, afternoon and night-time, as it turns out – a scant twenty four hours after arriving back in my favourite second home of Waterloo and the temperature could less-than-eloquently described as well, brass monkeys. Fortunately this is exactly the weather which suits me nicely, being someone who feels faint with heat exhaustion at [...]

Well, Tree has arrived! Mini-Tree, as it turns out. Shortly after noon and in a large and promising-looking cardboard box, only for me to discover upon gently wriggling it out by the netting that it was, er, vertically challenged and standing even shorter than me (and that, make no mistake, is short in Christmas tree [...]

Well whatever the detractors might think (and unlike myself after eight mince pies from Betty’s brought by a kind visitor the other day), it’s all undoubtedly starting to take shape, starting with the weather (distinctly chilly at time of writing), the television (on which I have watched many, many Bonds over the last couple of [...]

A slight exaggeration maybe, but after a relaxing week at home with TV, comfort food, fishes and the all-encompassing pleasantness that comes from attempting nothing more challenging than laundry for a few days (only fair after muchas liveliness on the islands) it’s fair to say that a heavy sigh of resignation was emitted when the [...]

And huge apologies for the sizeable blog-gap – the mind and typing fingers were willing, but the available internet connection was weak; fortunately I have now appropriated an ethernet cable from the front desk of my charmingly well appointed and spacious Jersey digs after four days of less than effective moving-of-the-laptop-around-the-room both here and in [...]

And to anybody anywhere who has previously congratulated me on my usual ruthless efficiency and superlative organisational skills, read on… After a fabulously lively three days in my new favourite city of Belfast, I am spending today relaxing on the übersettee with the X Factor repeats having finally arrived home around midnight last night, a couple [...]

And true to form after the undisputed fabulousness of my last London base a scant three weeks ago, the payback – as regular readers may remember, hotel-karma is a good friend of mine and the deceptively nicely-furnished and clean but otherwise utterly shambolic Edinburgh incall base which I have called home for the last three [...]