Tell you what, this fog's a bit scary. We've heard all about the flight cancellations and the predicted Christmas traffic chaos, but can anyone tell me where the hell it's coming from?

I'll freely admit to being totally ignorant in this respect, but I don't understand where you get a fog that merrily descends on the whole of southern England for days at a time - and it was a pea-souper here in Minehead at the same time Heathrow was closed.

I've got to drive back up the M5 and M4 tomorrow and am having nightmare visions of crawling along at 25 miles per hour for six hours to get back.

By the way, I learnt of an ingenious trick earlier today. A friend of mine couldn't decide what to get another friend for Christmas, so - instead - they're going to give them a meal out. This will take the form of an IOU written inside their Christmas card ("this card entitles the bearer to one meal out paid for by the sender", etc). That's a bloody clever way of admitting you've not been able to think of anything remotely appropriate to get them! I'll be adopting that one, so ready yourselves for a few meals on me in early 2008.

Oh, and we got another mention on Bloggers' Blog. Trust Amy to post once in a blue moon and still get featured on it. I swear they have their favourites - and speaking of posting, I'll be totting up our annual figures shortly and publishing the resulting graph. I hope Messrs Wooding and Kennedy are quaking in their boots ahead of that little performance review...