London

Aeroplanes. They get you there quickly and make you wish you'd stayed home. But I have survived it and here I am. Staying with my sister K in London. K's husband R runs a tight ship. The flat is incredibly tidy. One gets the feeling that if one dropped a chocolate wrapper, R would leap across the room and catch it before it hit the ground!

We have had nice weather and a good couple of days. The bookshops of Charing Cross Road trembled before me! We went to the V&A - the Art! The culture! The bookshop which I stumbled across within the first five minutes and had a lovely time browsing in!

But there's more to London than bookshops (really?). We have also been on a Thames clipper, to see the musical Wicked, and eaten lots of Ben&Jerry's icecream.

Tomorrow it's off to Hove, to meet my new nephew.....