Though I wouldn’t be against a spinoff where Robert, disillusioned by what happened to him, goes down an Ebeneezer Scrooge route.

I have been a huge fan throughout and I wasn’t expecting a happy ending per se, but it left me very uncomfortable. It jumped the shark a bit too much.

Thank goodness the signage is so clear…

Wonderful.

Apparently in China, many retired people spend days in the park playing Mah Jong with each other, which I love the idea of.

Oh really? I play by the , ‘How are you doing that so fast, I can’t keep up’ rules.

I played with my grandmother back in the 80s. I got a beautiful set a while ago, wanting to learn again. But no one plays it anymore.

Euston gives you lots of exercise when you are given 42 seconds to run to your train.

Ensaios sobre a cegeuira/ Blindness by Saramago. His paragraphs can go on for days, and punctuation is sparse. I could talk about how good a book it is, but mainly I was just excessively proud with myself for managing to finish it in the original Portuguese.