While the USA celebrated it's democracy by the election of it's first black president we followed suite the next day by detonating a large quantity of [STRIKEOUT:dark]black powder. Although the Gunpowder Plot was more an attempt at regicide than subverting our fledgling democratic institutions. Still fireworks are fun …

The sun is over the yard arm, F1 will be on in a few hours followed by a new Sharpe. The Sunday Slob is in full effect. Some days are just made for lounging.

I'm feeling more than a little guilty having used the car 3 days so far this week. While the cold snap is upon us it's very easy to come up with reasons why I should be using the car (visiting folks, picking up Fliss from station etc). Must try better …

We spent this weekend entertaining as Phil and Karl visited from the wild climes of the North. The weekend was mostly catered by Fliss who cooked a wonderful Roast Duck (with Port and Marmalade sauce) on Friday and a lovely Katsori Dom (sp?) on Saturday. I was mostly relegated to …

The cycle home last night certainly counted as interesting. I didn't actually get around to leaving the office until around 1830 by which time is was quite dark. And raining. To be fair the rain wasn't the almost horizontal sheets of stuff that had been coming down earlier in the …