We are more likely to get a white Easter in England than Christmas so it’s almost refreshing to pretend to be back at work. The best TV could offer was old films and the so-called family entertainment my kids never wanted to watch when the films were first broadcast. It’s become a tradition to see Bruce Willis growing older, losing more hair and clothes in yet another action movie. He’ll be able to get his elderly person’s bus pass in five years time. Das Boot made submarine life look like living on a 24 hour building site and David Coulthard is starting to resemble Jürgen Prochnow, especially when he doesn’t shave his greying stubble. Read more

What will you want for dinner or shall we eat out? A few weeks ago there was the tussle with “Can I have your birthday list?” resulting in a virtually blank piece of paper. After all, an Aston Martin DB9 is no more likely than being stuck on a desert island with a broody Charlize Theron. Read more

A long, long time ago, when Mac users ran System 6/7/8/9, windows were things you looked through. Apart from version 3 (and lately Vista) which for some weird reason was installed on generic computers, with the reasoning they were the equivalent of IBM’s Mac’s and Sun’s fancy GUI operating systems. Read more

Anyone who has flown into Gatwick airport at the end of their holiday, then stood on the platform waiting for the train home will know what it means. A prime example of what Britain does best. Read more