So here you go.

Everyone is happy when it doesn’t rain on a holiday, so that you can enjoy your days off.

Generally I try to keep out of important stuff like world events in this blog and just focus on myself. Yes, it’s all me me me.

Speaking of money, I have pretty frugal spending habits in general, inherited from my Scottish forebears.

A number of readers (again, I remind you that one is indeed a number) have been in touch to express their dismay at the shocking bill we are facing to fix the exterior tiling on our house.

Something has been bugging me since that wedding I attended a few weeks ago.

I remember watching an episode of The Cosby Show many years ago.

Some years ago, I worked a weekend at a local rural hospital to enable the local anaesthetists to have some well earned time off.

I’ve been fired from our departmental newsletter.

In an act that might be described as one of the purest optimism, I’m reintroducing a bunch of new caterpillars to our swan plant of death.