Today was my birthday: I'm forty-eight. To take my mind of it, my family bought me gifts:
A movie: 3:10 to Yuma - the 2007 remake with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. We watched it this evening - highly entertaining.
A book: Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland, author of Rubicon which I read last year.
A picture: A large framed print of one of my own photos - I know I'm notoriously difficult to buy for but this smacks of desperation.