Met up with the brother at the Chandos this lunchtime to hand over his family's Christmas pudding and a pile of books and DVDs (Sherlock, Hannibal, Rare Exports and Casino Royale - basically a big old pile of psychopaths/sociopaths*) and receiving in return my birthday present from October (a nice, non-iPod MP3 player) and some books (new Temeraire ( Read more... )

This morning, I'm suffering from the food equivalent of a hangover, having eaten way, way too much last night.  The g-d and g-s came round for a meal, before they went off for Christmas proper, she to her boyfriend in Boston and he to his parents in Wales.   the original plan had been to exchange presents and then decorate the tree and put up the ( Read more... )

Very thick white fog today - if we still had coal fires, it would be a proper sherlock Holmes, hansom cab pea-souper, just like tourists still imagine it is here ( Read more... )

Feeling very much better and more mobile, except that the blasted knee still won't bend properly, but the weather has been a bit depressing, and now I think I'm coming down with a cold. Bother ( Read more... )