Spin the wheel of fortune, or learn to navigate

Right. I asked, you lot provided, thank you very much. I now have a list of books with which to enliven my 2013. (I think I've caught all the suggestions made in the poll, in the comments or in person - if I've missed yours off, let me know.)

I was wondering how to order them - a surname beginning with W has given me a lifelong dislike of alphabetical orderings. But then I realised: it's kind of irrelevant, since I will doubtless go through them in the order they come into the library, or I fall over them in second-hand shops, or impatient suggesters thrust them into my grubby little paws.

( The Reading List )

( Any Other Business )

But you know I'm OK here sitting at home

In between Christmas and New Year, I...

( Was off work, and quite enjoyed myself )

And today I was back at work. First Great Western celebrated this momentous event by putting my ticket price up and cancelling the train I was hoping to catch. My bike expressed its distaste at having been locked up by itself for a fortnight by hiding an enormous quantity of water in its saddle, then carefully disgorging it while I rode to work.