Today is National Day. It is a public holiday. What always happens on a bank holiday? It rains, right? This day is no exception! It rained in the night, it rained this morning and, although it stopped at about 1.30, if I’m honest, the outlook is not great! On the bright side, however, it is quite warm. Instead of a long walk around the estate we decided to take a short walk to the golf club. However, this was very quiet - perhaps unsurprisingly - and the...

Right! On Friday afternoon I tried to open the safe but three attempts later it had locked itself for 15 minutes. Quarter of an hour later, I tried again - three errors and locked out again - unnecessary as I was a.ready locked out! Despite my dear wife insinuating that I had put the wrong number in or had otherwise done something stupid, I called reception and they said someone would come over. ‘Someone’ it turned out was a team of 3 - duty manager, secur...