Snow

It is snowing horizontally and vertically at the moment. From the look of the spectacular cloudscape across the Channel, Old Grandmother Williams' Weather Lore suggests that the French are copping it big time.

Not planning on going anywhere much, very soon.

In Memoriam

Like everyone else, I'm amazed Hunter S Thompson made it to the age of 67 (though not as amazed as I was that Bill Burroughs lived as long as he did). An infuriating and refreshing man in equal measure.

It does take a certain amount of bottle to shoot yourself, though rough on the nearest and dearest who inevitably discover you. I think I'd only ever do it if I had a fatal disease: having spent too much time by hospital beds in deathbed vigils, I don't really want that for myself.

But I'm quite prepared to learn that Thompson did it out of sheer perversity. Still, I'll raise a glass all the same.