To paraphrase Zager and Evans, "in the year twenty twenty five."

It's a new year, Simmo has got himself up off the patio and whisked Mrs Simmonds off to somewhere or other in the Indian Ocean, we've all eaten too much cheese, and we thought we'd get together in one room until one of us is forced to spend a month in Cape Town to look back at a year when more than 50% of Americans thought despite everything, Donald Trump deserved another shot at being the US president.............Blimey!