Ed, won't be alone, but will be forcibly sober (someone has to remember the burglar alarm code) so will be thinking of you. Hopefully I will be in a quiet corner with my bottle of coke and sleeping child. Knowing my luck, I'll be at the centre of a pile of screaming drunken "adults", with a hyperactive child climbing the walls, and I think I'd rather swap with you - are you anywhere near London??!

Yours, LTS, slightly desperate and not looking forward to this at all.....