Saturday notes - midday

Right, the copy of Harry Potter VII lies next to me, and will be read in due course. Before I read that, I'll finish the Children of Hurin by Christopher Tolkien, in which I have progressed to page 150. Children were walking around town with their nose in the HP book.

Weather here is nice, a good deal nicer than in southern England where they're having wet feet. We can expect rain later this weekend, which will be welcome: it's been very dry of late.

In the wake of the recent diplomatic spat between the UK and Russia, two Russian planes were challenged near UK airspace close to Aberdeen. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the cat and mouse games of the Cold War. Many thanks to Vladimir Putin, I'm bound to say.