Clarification

1) the character in the previous post, Mr C Smith, is a creation of my fevered imagination and bears no resemblance to anything. It is this kind of bizarre randomness that makes my blog so unlikely to gain a regular readership but then who cares, it's my blog!

2) The book I was waxing lyrical about yesterday, "The H Bomb Girl", is very good up to the end, although it falls into a bit of kneejerk leftism: do you have to put party affiliation on any manuscript to get published these days?

3) Boozeblogging is back, as you will have noticed. Meh. I'm sober this morning, by the way.