Safely arrived at parents-in-law after a fairly untraumatic journey. Just started snowing over the last five miles or so.

Snag is that mother-in-law has had new internet provider and wifi since the summer and doesn’t know what the password to the latter is. Or at least of the three things she’s got written down and suggested none of them are working. I’ve tried those and other things, I’ve tried combinations and variations – but all to no avail. It’s immensely frustrating and means it’s going to be a very ‘quiet’ Christmas with no online Scrabble, no Twitter, no emailing friends or tidying up the incoming, no looking things up. I’m only able to post this by fighting for time (amongst five teenagers and 6 adults) on the one PC that is internet connected. But after getting used to mobile devices and access being easy, who wants to do that more than occasionally!

As this is probably my last logon of the year – have a Happy Christmas and a great New Year one and all.