I hope things are going to get a little more 'jazzy'

Yes, it is true. Tomorrow I am leaving Canada for a month. I will first of all be engaged in covert operations in Paris (with brief sojourns to Amsterdam and London) for a fortnight.  On the 21st of December, I will leap aboard a TGV, accompanied by my 'husband',  and travel south to see my parents, who will meet us and drive us to their house in a village near Cognac. There, we will sample three flavours of Bailey's and play Trivial Pursuit, using questions published in 1983.

Life is Canada is of excellent quality and extremely pleasant, but my monkey sense - fuelled, as it is, by absinthe and Hula-Hoops - tells me that this web-blog may once again become more interesting, what with these instances of travel and amusement.  Who can tell?  It is probably better not to promise too much, but - fingers crossed!

Pip "Jules Verne" Pip

NWM