Yesterday was spent attending Death: Festival of the Living at the South Bank Centref with Ally. The two day festival was a surprise success for the organisers, who were caught short by its sell-out success and a number of the workshops were filled to capacity, much to the annoyance of those who couldn't get in.

Update on how to post a comment

Despite my best intentions, posting on this site is still difficult. One of my original hopes when setting up the blog was that it would enable me to become more technically literate... so I (actually my sister) have investigated the problem and I (she) has come up with a solution, or at least a way around third party cookies, which seem to be the problem.

While I have been writing fascinating blog entries in my head, in real life I have been hanging out with my sister and not writing anything. Suzanne has come across from Cairns in far northern Queensland and is spending six weeks with myself and B. At first I thought her hot tropical blood mixed with London cold would lead to her expiration through overwearing of thermal layers, but the unseasonably warm weather (nine degrees in London today!!) and the discovery of B's super thick winter coat has allowed her to survive. So far. My brother and his family also arrived yesterday for five days, en route to a skiing holiday in America. I am so lucky to have a family who respond to a crisis by getting in touch and getting on a plane. Even my dad made it across for our civil partnership back in September.