As he's in Mauritius, he won't see this for a while...

Because trying to get my father to make an entry would be like pulling teeth, I thought I'd make one on his behalf...

This is my father, engrossed with the conversation going on around him in 'Eagle's Nest', the Valladares family manse. Daz (short for Dazwal) is currently in Mauritius on business, accompanied by my mother, Ann.

Dad is a director of Bygraves, Bushell, Valladares and Sheldon (BBVS for short), a media agency (I badly describe it as buying time and space, which has a certain ring to it), based in central London. But I'll let him tell you the rest...