Benj is Back!

After years of not being bothered, my brother Benj has set up a new blog - you can look at it here. He assures me it's not finished yet, so we'll call it a work in progress!
Other news - went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory yesterday, mainly just so that I could meet up with friends I hadn't seen in while (well OK, 3 weeks, but it felt like years (miss you already Harri!)), but I was actually really surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Johnny Depp is as usual fantastic, and Freddie Highmore who plays Charlie is also brilliant as usual. I feel sorry for the one guy who had to play all of the Oompa-Loompas though!
Also went back into Oxford today to buy presents for the Gills and Andy Armitage who led our China trip. We were going to get Tim Gill a joke book, as in China he and Andy both regaled us with millions of puns and 'I got a new job today' jokes - know the ones? But anyway, in the end we got him a 'Practical jokes on her' kit because he's always so mean to Barb! For whom, incidentally, we bought a Chinese cookery book. We bought Andy a book on Extreme Ironing, just for the sake of it and because it seems like the sort of thing he'd like, but seriously it's so weird! Really funny, but really weird.
I'm absolutely shattered today because my body clock got merged somewhere to half Chinese-half English time, which means I'm waking up at 5 each day and falling asleep at about 9. Hmm. Our house is really boring at 5am, I can't make any noise so there's nothing to do!
Anyway, I'm going to get off the computer now so that Benj can fiddle round on his blog a bit more :)