Mrs Crawf and I have been away for two days, mulling over the fact that we have been married for twenty years.

We repaired to the South Coast, namely Christchurch, for some bracing sea air. The hotel was teeming with trim and efficient Polish staff who were so startled by my attempts to speak Polski that we were given free chocolates.

Some tennis played in windy conditions on a local court tilting both sideways and downhill, watched by a scrawny fox. A walk along the beach. NIce mellow stuff like that.

Back home now.

Our China Anniversary is complete. Next stop, hiyo Silver.