Happiness is...

...working from home on a gloriously sunny Wednesday, with a gastro pub meal in the evening to look forward to.

The new job is pretty good. It's expected that the editors will want to work from home some of the time and in fact all three of us are at home today. A great way to break up the week and gain an hour and a half back out of your day(in travel time) at the same time.

Geoff, Heike, Danny and Anneke came to visit at the weekend, which was fun until it poured with rain just as we were lighting the barbeque. Top tip for tandoori kebabs: the tandoori masala is a key ingredient, not something that can be left out if you don't have any, and cooking them under the grill will probably result in some drying out. Luckily Heike had made a cheesecake so we didn't starve.

We went to Kilburn Grange ( a smallish park in the next street) and Danny rushed up to every dog in the park, while Heike patiently repeated: "Now, Danny, you don't know that dog, do you? So you can't tell if he's friendly or not." Then we went to the Black Lion for a pint and the barman heated up Anneke's baby food and provided a bowl, which I thought was pretty good service.

Back at home, Anneke was quite happy flirting with Jules and grinding rice cake into the rug, so we needn't have worried about her crawling through the gap under the bottom railing on the roof terrace.

Tonight we are off to the Abbey Road (a gastro pub we pass on our run) to meet up with Craig. He's coming from work on his new scooter, which he has just ridden to Bath and back.Now, if I had a scooter...