Christmas day

What a marvellous day we had! Ben and Kate hosted us at Venn Cottage, much food was eaten and much merriment was enjoyed by all. 12 people sat around the table to eat, and 12 people left utterly sated. The two naughty chickens who flapped their way into the garden were driven back into their run by occasionally torrential rain showers, thus proving that everything serves a purpose.

Here follows a selection of some of the topics of discussion today:

The market factors that affect the length of the beds in motor homes.

The quality of the care that dementia patients receive via the NHS.

Whether there'll be a computer game invented where everything is in real-time and is totally mundane - you have to play a character, make them bathe and defecate, eat and work, in real time with no cheats.

How it can be that two retired people fail to find the time to watch all of the DVD boxsets that they are given by their family.