The trouble with this blog business is that it's so easy to get behind unless you have enormous self discipline.  The more you do the easier it is to get behind.  Here we are very nearly at the end of April and my reactions to nine plays, two films, two concerts and a science festival evening remain unrecorded.  That's not to mention TV, radio, books and the dreaded internet.  Well so be it.

I've also fallen behind with my coffee drinking.  I went into the freezer after lunch to fetch a new bag of coffee to find that the only one I had was a "special limited edition Christmas Blend".  To be enjoyed it said with mince pies and Christmas jumpers.  Neither were available but there had been several short showers of snow like stuff on the drive up from the Lakes this morning so perhaps the coffee wasn't being drunk in an entirely unseasonable setting.