The Scotsman

It has been a quiet day today. My lovely cleaning lady went down to the near by baker for some rolls for me to save me taking the car out - I don't know whether we have a lot of visitors or whether some people are using our small residents' parking area as a public car park.

Today is Le chef's birthday, but not a significant date, so I sent a card but have not seen him.

I seemed to take some time to catch up with the blogs I read, but also I have ordered The Scotsman ( a Scottish National Newspaper). I tried to give it up as the quality of the paper has gone steadily downhill over the past several years, through changes of owners and changes of editors.

Still, there columnists whom I really enjoy (and I hope that Fordyce Maxwell returns more often).

After so long without doing a cryptic crossword, I am finding it quite difficult to get back into the swing of it.

So, what is happening about my reading?

And my jigsaws?