Through the summer, I’ve had a few excuses for the links showing up at random times, or disappearing: technical disasters, our automated system crashing, unexpected illnesses and the like. But for the next two weeks, it will be none of these things that keep these links away from you: I am going on an honest-to-god holiday, the kind with beaches, pools, Dashiell Hammett and John Mortimer by the pool (in book form, I’m not having a holiday with a medium) and my son eating all the prawns off my plate. I haven’t quite finished my whole to-do list, so I’ll be working for another couple of hours yet, but once I cross off the last item from that list, I’m closing my laptop and ignoring my emails for the first time in a long time.
The ‘British summer’ used to be an oxymoron it meant umbrellas, packing a jumper and a light raincoat as well as your sunglasses and, every four years, getting thrashed by the Australians in the cricket. Things have changed: the Aussies are still giving us a hammering (though England look like they might take something from the third test), but the weather, while still variable, now veers between blisteringly hot and wild, monsoony rain
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