Old Gits and Haunted Hotels 1. Oxo cubes Among other things, I received several books for Christmas 2022. I will just mention two of them. One was Jeeves and the Wedding Bells , by Sebastian Faulks, a complete Jeeves and Wooster novel in as close to the style of PG Wodehouse as Faulks could manage. I have to say, he did a terrific job. I can see the joins here and there, and I think no-one could match the narrative wit of Plum, but Faulks got very close indeed. The book is very funny, an excellent read. And it brings us to a sort of closure, although I won’t tell you how. No spoilers. You’ll have to read it. Another was Notes from the Sofa , a collection of the late Raymond Briggs’ pieces for The Oldie. I was slightly perturbed to note that there are some similarities between these articles and my blogs of 2021. There is certainly the same harking back to lost worlds of the twentieth century, and confusion with some of the technologies a...