Post-party happiness

We've just had a party. Everyone has gone home now. I think they all went home happy, but one can never tell. We, at any rate, are quite happy ourselves. All the champagne is gone, as is all the smoked salmon. The empty bottles and glasses will keep until morning, and the BBC world service will tell us quite enough news to get our teeth brushed and us into bed.

We've been married twenty years, just about. We're cheerful about the prospect of another twenty or forty. Thanks for all your friendly support, you all, and so to bed.