"Fopp?......that's like HMV...

....only a different name", said the teenager with insight known only to her, as she passed me up town today.

Early start with a big queue at my Local Sorting Centre East; which was formally located 100 metres from my front door, and is now handily located in East Lothian.

Then to the German market on the last Saturday before Christmas; like the Orkney Ba' game. I felt £6 a go for the premium rides was well worth the money.....or perhaps I didn't.

Oh, almost forgot to mention that Nancy told me off for teaching Owen alternative lyrics to An English Country Garden. I'm simply rounding off his formal education.

Christmas Radio Times starts today; it'll be BBC2 v BBC1 in this house tonight.