Saturday 15 May

DH’s birthday celebrations at Beach Bar and a chance to catch up with brother Sydney, Lady Bron, Larry and friends. Later we’re entertained by a ‘youth of today’ who no-one will admit to having hired. While initially amusing for his feral wit and interactive ‘guess what I’m on?’ game, the lad turns out to be somewhere to the right of Wagner – and not even half as tuneful. Deidre, regularly found to the left of Rousseau, today unites both wings of our sofa; the price for initiating the breakfast beers that see Licky and I stagger home early.