Milly Mossop

To Alnwick!

 Oh happy days, my last post was published successfully which means I haven't been excommunicated by Typepad after all. Thanks TP!

We're off to Alnwick this evening for the annual family shoot / pub fest. More reason than usual to be excited this year as my younger cousin has just had a baby girl (my 2nd cousin?) - the first of our generation to produce the next generation. So hats off to Ami! I think there will be much head wetting in the Northumberland Arms, Felton tomorrow.

And also my other cousin who lives in Sussex is bringing her boyfriend up to meet the clan for the first time. In fact they're already there, he's probably being Grannied as we speak poor lad.

Meanwhile Mozz and I have a wedding-free weekend as there won't be time to fit in visits to the vicar / photographer / florist / car providers (which is a shame because they're hilarious, I'll be in stitches by the time I get to the church and it's only a 3 minute drive).

So we shall merely drink and be merry. Just what the doctor ordered!

The Grauniad? Grandad more like.

That's not a slur on The Guardian which I think is as fine a national newspaper as you'll get in this media driven, celebrity obsessed world. Admittedly I read The Times offline but only because they deliver it to my door whilst I'm still sleeping. (Well, I say 'read'. Increasingly it just gets recycled. Once the builders are gone though we'll get our mornings back).

Anyway, where was? Oh yes, Guardian readers heavily disguised as Daily Mail readers. Just check out the petty vitriol heaped on this poor columnist who dared to say that maybe the Brand-Ross debacle was slightly over egged.

It left such a eggy taste in my mouth I left a comment myself (I know, makes me no better than the rest of them but I'm working at home, not feeling very well and have twice lost a proposal I'm writing due to technical ineptitude).

But I'll come clean, I'm only really posting something to check Typepad has let me back in - my account got suspended because I forgot to pay / update card details or some such foolery. I've sorted it now though - let me in!