@pgl hm, yup! I find my patience for pay-up-front-then-get-nothing diminishes with age…

Customer service ‘useless scum of the year’ award so far goes to Metcheck.

@andreagillies you’re back on Twitter! Goodo! (And nice piece in the Guardian t’other week, btw)

Wife: “We must find that list of readily accessible numbers.”

@OxfordCityGuide if only! We went to bed at 2ish. He woke (unusually) at 5ish. Sigh!

I commend you to the podcasts of More or Less by the inestimable @timharford. Actually, that should be ‘estimable’.

Reading the whole newspaper in a single, uninterrupted sitting feels dirty and wrong, but good. Best day of the year so far.

@CattyJacques perfect! 🙂

@CattyJacques oh man, yes. Chives, please

@DarienGS or I suppose fuzzy logic…