Lucy has just rung to tell me that instead of coming to New York to visit me, she, Mum and J are going to Croatia and Bosnia for Fall half-term holidays. I've been dumped for this:

Is it really any wonder?!

I am so envious, I had heart palpitations when she told me. I haven't been to any new beautiful and exotic places this year. Wisconsin SO does not count. Aileen better make good on her promise to take me to Puerto Rico next spring. I'm almost tempted to go whole hog and blow the thousand bucks it would cost to go to Bermuda for my birthday. But I'm not that crazy just yet.