With Iu and Loki back from Romania, we decided to do an outing together, particularly as the rain prevented the hordes from descending for Saturday tennis at ours. This is how it played out... Not that there's anything wrong with wanting to marry your best friend, even if he's the same sex. Honest.

It's very rare that Iu and Loki and I are apart of a weekend. But recently, Iu and Loki went for a flying visit (a couple of nights) to Romania to visit rellies, leaving me to hold the fort, mid-diet on my own back in London. This proved to be problematic for me... I don't manage well left to my own devices.

Every Saturday we have Loki's friends and their family round to play tennis in the courts inside our compound. The kids stay on afterwards and trash the joint, while the parents eat us out of house and home and shoot the breeze. People often complain that digital media stored in Data Centres is basically slop and all we are doing is destroying the environment for vanity trash that should be deleted. But the same could be said for the hot air that comes out of our mouths too. I thought, for...