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I told SWMBO that you would have to be soft in the head to go away in Australia between Christmas and New Year because it is the peak of the peak season.
So we went away on Boxing Day to a little retreat some three hours north of Sydney. Can you guess what we [...]

Merry Christmas to you one and all. Here’s hoping that your day is as festive as you could possibly want and that your present pile doesn’t contain too many socks. For the first time in many years mine today contained absolutely none, although I did receive a couple of ties and some cuff links from [...]

Things that I have done recently, in no particular order;

Pre-ordered the new Marillion album
Acquired a Blackberry
Introduced JFGP to the concept of months
Started using my new laptop almost exclusively at work
Bought some Christmas presents for my immediate family
Addressed and sent Christmas cards to the UK – if yours hasn’t turned up I can only blame the [...]

The decorations have been up in the shops for weeks and the temperature is rising day by day but it hasn’t really much felt like Christmas. Until today, when I cooked up a batch of my homemade mincemeat. All I need to do now is persuade SWMBO to whip up some pastry and we will [...]