Heading home for Christmas

8.00 Fog is hitting Heathrow again, but I am on Eurostar home. However as we are into the fog season I buy spare Eurostar tickets in case I need them in January. Carol and I dash around the office doing final letters and other bits and pieces then we both head for Gare du Midi. I write the diary on the train – very therapeutic to do longhand but I must switch to my laptop. Now I can think about Christmas, apart from all the papers I have to read and a couple of articles I have to write…. The only meeting I have to do, so far, is in Oxford on the Kashmir Report.