IT's going to be a January without booze.
And chocolate.
I didn't dare walk Max on the beach this morning in case Greenpeace tried to throw me in the water and feed me plankton.
Anyway, enough of my Christmas overindulgence. It was a delight to see so many national newspapers following our exclusive yesterday about Sian Lloyd's hush hush wedding in North Wales.
One Wales-based character whose comments continue to attract many column inches of national coverage (and whatever is the web equivalent of column inches) is Mr Brunstrom and his "E is safer than A" comments on the Today programme.
Chwarae teg - he certainly knows how to put the issue on the table, sparking lots of earnest articles asking how dangerous IS ecstasy.
At our morning conference today, acting picture editor Jeff Pitt mused over whether this meant he should now be taking ecstasy for headaches. The general consensus was that it would still be easier to go to Boots for asipirin than to find some shady character at a rave club every time you felt a migraine coming on.
But what does E cure, exactly? pondered Jeff.
Various suggestions were made, the favourite being...chronic shyness.
Another MP has called for the chief con's dismissal but we won't be getting too excited about that in tomorrow's edition. What we do have is the disgrace of a former Coast FM radio DJ in court for grooming schoolgirls on the web.
We're also looking at Conwy Council's plans for primary school re-organisation. Apparently, 16 schools will be less than half full by 2012 - and that has to mean closures.
