One surely must put all my desultory purchases of 2007 to good use: a 400D, a battered and worn macbook, about a hundred books, dozens of gadgets, a paunch from gallons of beer and alcohol, an account at smugmug, and various vaguely aesthetic objects and pieces of clothing.

In December I will spend a month in England, and will be saved. (And I must write about walking – and running – as the only way to turn this country around.) But first, more!