Happy New Year | 4 January 2013

I hope you all had a splendid Christmas and New Year. Mine was, if you care about these things, more eventful and hectic than I’d planned or otherwise anticipated. Each January I tend to have a Wodehouse Week, returning to the great man for cheery sustenance in the bleak midwinter.  It will be a rum thing, reading Wodehouse while engaged to be married.

Anyway, back on the grid now and the great thing about writing and blogging is that it’s a commendable distraction from wedding planning. The grindstone never seemed so appealing.

Time too, I suppose, to post the answers to my Christmas Quiz. So here they are. Hope you had some fun with it.

1. In what sense might the road to Rome, a vernal American composition and the location of the South’s surrender each be found on your phone?

The Appian Way takes you to Rome (from the south). Aaron Copland wrote Appalachian Spring and Robert E Lee surrendered at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.