I didn’t think it through that much.

Not at all. It’s all down to one’s personal view of what is ‘bad’, plus they’re the first things that came to mind!

The coffee is luke warm and the doughnuts are stale. It’s always windy and slightly too cold for comfort but not cold enough to put the heating on. Your bum itches.

Why were you sent here? See below.

Pride: you bragged about the size of your investments to your poorer relatives.

Greed: you shoplifted from a small ‘Mom & Pop’ store (stealing stuff from a chain store doesn’t count).

Wrath: you were rude to the waitress because of a small error in your order.

Lust: you propositioned your spouse’s younger sibling (and got turned down).

Envy: you keyed your neighbour’s new car.

Gluttony: you ate the last slice of pizza and drank the last beer.

Sloth: you never got out of bed before 11:00 a.m. at the weekend.

We watched ‘Black Doves’ on Netflix and it was excellent: drama, humour, a decent mystery and excellent acting. Hoping there’ll be a second series.

Also, and as always, I’ve dipped back into my favourite episodes of DARK, also on Netflix. Still my favourite show of all time and the best thing I’ve seen on TV in the last 50 years.

Lots of side trips available to places such as Upper and Lower Dicker (East Sussex), Scratchy Bottom (Dorset) and Minge Lane (Worcestershire).

I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.

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The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I’ve ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.

Annoyingly, my laptop seems to be working perfectly.

I’ve always wished for Scarlett Johanssen, naked, to appear at the front door. It’s yet to happen.

That’s a funny definition of ‘accident’.