8000 words on the Pages now ( so much better than any microsoft sh*te) and we're stepping up the pace a bit, moving into 1972

Iggy and the New York Dolls have arrived in the UK, and its still raining.
Has been since about ten, making for a difficult and tense day with tempers getting rather frayed towards the evening.
Resolved by a superb family film that Boy watched with us for the first time.
the recent re-make of Charlie and the Chocolate factory is absolutely superb, and Johnny Depp's interpretation of the sinister, crazy and unbalanced Willy Wonka is a work of genius.
of the few films I've ever watched,this is becoming one of my favourites. I think Gene Wilder's version is similarly clever and has some wonderful touches (particularly good is the scene in the tunnel on the boat when there is no earthly way of knowing where we are going, and no way of slowing...) but Depp steals it with his attitude to the children and his passion for the quite remarkable oompah loompahs.

Sixty pounds worth of new plants (heathers, pansies etc) for the courtyard garden stand battered in the front garden, the wind still as persistent now as it was at lunchtime.

I'm hoping to have more success tomorrow at the QEII Cruise terminal than I did this morning when security turned me away because the whole place was close and there were no 'mobile units' around to open up for me. Fred Olsen's 'Boudicca' arrives at six am, and we have an exhibition to set up in the departure lounge before she leaves. First ship of the new season and with D away at a wedding and P in Spain for the weekend it falls to me to set up.
Very nervous about it, which was not helped by this afternoon's shenanigans...