Slow news day

Not much to report today. Work is a bit frustrating. Just getting to the niggly panic stage of my current project - pre-first draft nerves. I'm hoping the document will come together and the contributors are writing what they're supposed to be writing. Will find out on Friday when it'll be up to me to pull the full version together. Plenty of time in hand for a nice production job next week, but the work always expands to fill the time available.

Chatted to Mum on the mobile during a crispy lunchtime walk. She's having trouble with the aging relatives who are not very close by and not exactly easy to help. She's also panicking about Christmas now that Dad's old banger has finally conked out and he's taken her wheels so he can get to work and back. She can't go Christmas shopping and has to stay in all day. At least Coco is happy.

Also spoke to Tabi who is very excited about our pre-Christmas get together with the folks. I daresay it'll be a boozy night with the over-excitement potential of us all being together properly for the first time in a long time. I'm really looking forward to New Year in Cornwall I have to say. Poor Tabs has to work a long day on the 1st but has got 31st afternoon and evening off. New Year's Eve sounds like it'll be a proper rowdy affair, but G said out of the blue the other evening, we'll have to go to St Ives over New Year. Picturing a chilled out chilly walk on the beach New Years Day. Our hangovers notwithstanding, it will be lovely to get out in the fresh air together and breathe in some new beginnings.