I Wish I Could Say the Countdown Has Eaten My Brain...

But the truth is, I've always been like this.

This weekend we were hosting the leaving party for Chiara, co-inhabitant of the Cherry Bomb and my best friend since we were eight: as I understand it, she has been appointed Queen of Slovenia and thus has to go administer her new land.

Happily for my sanity the Durham Lass is moving into the Cherry Bomb and so I will not be left totally desolate, but still, let that be a lesson to us all not to follow brilliant bilingual green-eyed girls home from th