Since I got back, we've been having Movie Slacker Days. Viewed so far: Elf, Timeline, Condorman, Snow Dogs, Wonderland, X-2 and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which was authored by Roger Ebert, of all people. (He also wrote the inimitable Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-vixens. Surely this represents a bizarre film critic moral high-ground. Takes one to know one and all that, eh?)

There has also been the baking of cookies. Fabulous.