Rational optimist

Delighted to discover that Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist is being serialised for free to readers of The Times online. It is another beautiful spring day and I have just posted a contribution to the debate about selling off English forestry on the Saga magazine forum known as Sagazone. All these opportunities to exchange opinions are part of a great new freedom and are changing our society as we watch. It beats throwing a shoe at the TV set anyway. Stacey has come up with the brilliant idea of marketing our April 16 Love and Marriage event in Moffat as the ideal Mother's Day gift. Well done Stacey! Wearing my Mum's hat I am taking cards and posters for Abi's Edinburgh Festival preview show after L&M across to the Moffat House hotel this afternoon.