Can barely contain the excitement.

On 2nd February next am flying to Dubai.By Emirates. I know,I know, should be patriotic and fly British Airways. And I do, I do,the last flight to Vienna was with the BA, and the flight before that and many many more in the past, but this 5 star airline has been a dream of mine for a long time and I knew if I ever chose to fly to Dubai it would be on an Emirates plane.3 nights at the Atlantis The Palm hotel and then boarding the Vision of the Seas for a 7 night cruise around the Gulf before returning to London. How absolutely wonderful is that?

64 members of the Russian choir Alexandrov have died in a plane crash.Mothers and fathers have lost their children. Children have lost their mothers and fathers.The grief the families have gone through is unimaginable.And the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo finds it hilarious. They mock the dead and laugh at the pain of those who have lost their dear ones.As if the feelings of the ordinary Russian people were nothing,as if they did not matter.How utterly despicable. How utterly disgraceful.How absolutely unacceptable. Charlie Hebdo should crawl in shame under the stones where the frogs live.And rot there.