I would rather blow torch my nipples off then work in a bank ….but it looks like they may have got their act together…..so yippee for that and now, hopefully, we can start leading normal lives again and start worrying about SARS, Bird Flu, North Korea, Iran, whether to cruise on the Carnival...

I just went through one of those life-threatening moments of laughter……..the sort where your brain starts to run out of oxygen and you think your head will explode………I will tell you why in a moment. Originally Heidi and I had planned to take a train from Naples to Genoa...