And just like that, August is no more. Christmas chocolates are in the stores (did I blink and miss Halloween?), and I can no longer avoid doing a thing I don’t really want to do. On the plus side, Christmas chocolates are in the stores (I love Puds) and last week’s Bank Holiday was, against all the odds, hot and sunny so I went to the zoo.

“Underestimate octogenarians at your peril” I quite enjoyed this cozy mystery set in the days leading up to Christmas. The fact that the protagonist was a ‘curmudgeonly’ oct…

After the fabulous time at Chiltern Kills last weekend, this week has been somewhat of an anticlimax. Work, work and more work pretty much sums things up. Put what I hope are the finishing touches in the apprenticeship portfolio, wrote some formula, ate too much rubbish, and generally felt like I could sleep forever. But hey. Booked tickets for the tour of Operation Mincemeat next year, so it’s not all bad, right?