custard doughnuts

When I was a child we would go to Cornwall for our summer holiday. While we were there we always went to Dobwalls Adventure Park, a miniature railway themed fun park. It was brilliant.

Sadly, it closed forever in 2006, and there's little evidence that it ever existed.

In which I go to work. Which is a novelty.

In mid December I was very ill. I had a persistent and heavy cough and at several points, a fever. So I went for a coronavirus test. Here's what that experience was like.

Things from our childhoods often turn out to be less good than we remember. I have fond memories of Lightwater Valley, a theme park in North Yorkshire, based on three specific things that sadly, but entirely understandably, no longer exist.

Sometime last year I wondered aloud whether spending several hundred thousand pounds on a supercar was actually worth it. It was a genuine question - apart from watching Top Gear, my only frame of reference is I once hired an Audi A5 to drive to a wedding.

So, probably worth giving it a try to see?

Today I had a new experience - I got stuck in a lift. I was genuinely trapped in a confined space for some time - long enough to be uncomfortable, but not long enough to need a peeing strategy.

It was quite interesting. And a little bit horrible.