I’m heading for Carnoustie the Easter, just for a few days. Being on my own, without Janet, still gets to me, usually when I’m sitting in my armchair and imagine she is in the other one, but when I look here is no-one there!

Looking forward to seeing again my Hull friends Lily and Waleed, from Sudan, although Lily likes to think of herself as Ehiopian (which of course she is). They have promised to take me to an Ethiopian restaurant in Sheffield.

I wonder whether they know that the leader of Sudan has been overthrown in a military coup.