• You were right, I was listening to classical music, and on sunday night I played the SACD I bought the other week, Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D op 53, played by the Russian national orchestra with lead violin by Julia Fischer, conducted by Yakov Kreizberg, it is a very good recording, glad I bought it, I know Julia Fischer's playing already, I have a CD of Bach violin concertos which is also good.
• That chocolate cake sounds good, you can make the fudge and vanilla cream and I'll make the chocolate cake, with chocolate chips.
• I hope we can stay friends for a long time too, the last time someone said they would be my friend for ever, 2 months later, she was gone, so better luck this time I hope, and I have no doubt it will be Diana.
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You seem to know more about our ghost stories than I do. We certainly have a lot of old castles and other old buildings to generate plenty of ghost stories. I did a job about 20 years ago, it was an old disused vicarage ( a big house used by a vicar and owned by the church ), we were converting it into flats, and somebody on the job started a rumour that the building was haunted so we started calling this ghost Marmaduke, it was a long running joke on that job. Every time someone new came on to the job we warned them about the ghost, and it got to the point where no one would work late on their own, even though we'd made it up, it made us wonder, what if there is a ghost ? once that thought got in your head it took over, just shows the power and vulnerability of the mind, and the power of a suggestion. I'll post this bit before I read the rest of your