i must admit to being quite a good cake cook. this one has a big bar of green and blacks melted in to the mixture as well as cocoa inside and on top. all the better for being eaten alone at 10 o'clock with wine when i am finally able to stop for the day.

training in a bus out the back of my office, learning about the snazzy new technology we'll be working with.

cheery forward-looking self says 'hooray for change and new ways of working'.

dreary stuck-in-the-mud self says something less positive.

which self will win?

came home, played football in the street with an army of kids, and organised a last minute trip to visit poor granny skaterg1rl and her new knee after she cancelled her trip here.

sad to hear that a friend from uni had died. we'd lost touch which is something i seem to do all the time. is it my itinerant life? a shyness? a lazyness? why am i better at losing friends than keeping them when friendships mean so much? he was a lovely bloke.