Stay healthy, everyone! Sorry to read you were ill again, Skarpi!

When my partner and I arrived in Texas in 1982 it was a warm year and we thought it was such a novelty to be in a climate where we could put meat on the porch barbecue grill so had steaks for xmas dinner.

It's not like that every year, but this year, the warmest on the planet, will be another one for grilling the meat outdoors on the holiday. It will be a marinated lamb that will be skewered and grilled for a Mediterranean touch to the meal.

Stay comfortable everyone, whatever your weather (or volcanoes)!