Success!

See, I do actually get round to things:

• chocolate and beetroot muffins were a success, if a little bizarre.
• Studio 60 and Mad Men series 1 have arrived. Hurrah!
• complicated walls climbed - but there's still a bugger of a route that I can't get. If only my arms were a couple of inches longer...
• Tynemouth Long Sands beach was fab on Sunday, if a little chilly. Rather strangely there were a bunch of folks (studenty types) racing up and down pulling a plough, creating deep furrows in the beach. This was all being captured on film by an Andy Warhol-esque character, with a shock of white hair. I am none the wiser.