A four day break was nice; a forty day break would be even nicer probably

Week's end bumper edition

And so this is Friday and what have we learned?

This week had the feeling of the nation driving with one hand on the wheel and reaching with the other into the backseat to deal with scrapping kids.

Down I go to the supermarket to fill the basket and take my place at the end of a long line which turns out to be caused by a payment system outage and in due …