This is my first blog, and to be honest, I have no idea what I’m supposed to put on it.

I suppose I could tell you about my newly decorated study, which has been painted a deep red, and fitted out to look like somewhere that Charles Dickens might have written – allowing he’d written on a computer, and had access to Ikea – but since I wouldn’t be terribly interested in reading about your interior decor, I can’t imagine for one moment that you would be the least interested in mine.

This blog business is clearly going to take some thought – and, in my experience, thinking is best done with tea in one hand, and a cake in the other. It’s a routine that has served me well in the past – but just in case it cannot overcome what is clearly a severe case of blog block, suggestions for content will be more than welcome.

Earl-Grey, anyone?