Today

Gender stereotypes to the fore today – Molly and Judy cooked, I went for another run (three days running – literally!) and then us boys went out and went drinking at a number of different emporiums in town.

Mark Cary

Several of the places we’ve been to – restaurants, bars etc. – have the latest thing in ‘drying your hands’ technology a motion sensitive paper dispenser – thought I might share those with you – they are rather ingenious aren’t they? Whatever next?

Then in the evening, after another suitably low-key day we went to see Christmas with the Kranks – a holiday movie starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. For a comedy it was surprisingly short of laughs (probably a Raio Times two-starrer when it is eventually shown on UKTV Crimble 2009,) but with it’s cheesy Christmas naffness it did declare the festive season officially open.

It was all too much, I had to go to bed after that…