Things kind of suck around here. My brothers went back to their respective universities this afternoon, uncle aki et al went home on Wednesday, and we will take Chris to London tomorrow.. thus I have the downtrodden feeling that everything is over – no more parties, no more brothers, no more cards.

Well, at least I have my room to myself again. I love Luke, but I like my privacy. When out Christmas shopping, I instructed bill to get a pear of black tights for my grandmother; these, I later realised, turned out to be fishnets, and so not appropriate as a gift. I had to get my grandmother another gift, leaving me with the fishnets.

Because Luke was here, I haven’t had chance to try them on…until now.

They fit.