Hi folks!

Long time since my last, but in my defence I had a holiday and also work has been crazy. I'm dispensing Tamiflu in my sleep (actually, I think I genuinely could give all of the counselling points and advice while sleep walking).

Oh yes, we're having fun.

We had a break! We went to Manchester first for one night so that my wife could indulge in her continued obsession with 'Take That'. They were very good and also I got to see the outside of 'Old Trafford', Manchester United's stadium. From there we travelled to London! Specifically we were there to go to Wimbledon.

I had been before but my wife had never. We got up at 5am and got an early underground train over to Wimbledon. We then joined the queue at about 6.15am. They gave us a 'Queue Card'! I think we were numbers 3655 and 3656 in the queue, so we waited. It's quite good, you kind of sit around on the grass in line for a bit. Then they get you up and move you around a bit, still in line of course, then you wait a bit and so on.

We eventually got there when the gates opened and bought a Ground Pass each and away we went for the day watching various matches on the outside courts. We'll definitely go again, but I think we'll only go if we have got tickets for a show court.

Then on to Paris! Paris was really good. We watched the Gay Pride parade on the saturday, we saw some sort of roller skate race go past us on the sunday, we went up the eiffel tower whilst some sort of impromptu Michael Jackson tribute was taking place underneath it and we snuck into Notre Dame for their evening sunday service (now I dislike religion and don't enjoy churches, but that was impressive).

We enjoyed our meals in Paris more than most places we've been too. I know you have to get lucky in restaurants wherever you are, but the food was a delight.

Then, as I said at the top, back to reality and pandemic flu!