Entertaining L,T, P and S was much  more difficult now that we lived in shared accommodation with PhD students. I was hoping that I could shoo the others away the night that I was hosting our dinner party, but I no longer had any authority over the students now that I was retired.

Rather than sit at the dinner table in sight of the others, L,T, P and S donned towelling dressing gowns and headed for the sauna.

Later, and for the millionth time, S questioned me on the point of our Christmas newsletter.