A shortened Sunday Tittle Tattle; I’ve spent most of the weekend in a sort of quiet contemplation, thinking about the atrocities that have happened over the last few days. I can’t even begin to imagine how dreadful it must be to lose a loved one so suddenly and barbarically, or to be forced to live in a constant state of fear as so many in the world are. I find that everything I want to write sounds clichéd and somehow twee or inadequate, so I shall leave it at this: my deepest sympathies are with those who have been affected by recent events and they are very much in my thoughts.