No exaggeration in your description - except that I did once see somebody playing the piano. He didn't look or sound any more cheerful than everybody else.

Ideal for @joannerewcastle.bsky.social to calibrate the huggometer

And this morning, a miracle. The train is at the platform at Euston and open for boarding, a full 15 minutes before it is due to leave. It's a train I catch regularly and cannot remember this ever happening before. Truly, the wrath of @cjforms.bsky.social is a power to behold.

But why wait 19 years when 14 is plenty? Or maybe 12?

I got an invitation from a large government supplier to a private view at the V&A of an exhibition I really wanted to see. So of course I declined. The day after, while waiting for a meeting to start, I heard three Very Senior People chatting about how much they had enjoyed it.

Even more worrying are the ones that also find the idea of an external visitor who is a civil servant from a different department an almost unthinkably alarming occurrenceEven more worrying are the ones that also find the idea of an external visitor who is a civil servant from a different department an almost unthinkably alarming occurrence

Sensible to have left your gun at homeSensible to have left your gun at home

That only happens these days if you were standing on the wrong side of the escalator at the time.

I've now been round the Twitter summary version at least twice, takes a couple of years each time, but never attempted the full text.

This is excellent news - if you haven't been following Mr Pepys elsewhere, seize the opportunity to follow his doings.