What a weekend! My large bet on Villa paid off and we’re now up to 3rd in the table. Is 125/1 to win the league a bet too far? – probably. On Sunday, after manic last minute decorating, we were able to welcome friends, at last, into a habitable room in our house. I laid on a bit of a casual wine tasting and was pleased that the Barbera Agostinelli 2006 - £ 10.50 proved to be the hit of the day as the more unusual wines can often pass under the radar.

Loads of orders to sort out today before I can get back to the, seemingly, interminable task of loading info onto the website.

I’m still plugging away at adding all the tasting notes etc. to the site. It’s not exactly stimulating work but I’m determined that the website be as user friendly and up to date as possible, so it’s an essential task. When I’m up to speed with this we can set about posting more videos and details of plans that we have for the New Year.

I’m hoping that Villa do the business at Man Utd today as I couldn’t resist odds of 6/1 for the win and have staked more than I would normally bet on us winning at Old Trafford for the first time in god knows how many years. It would have been an even larger bet, such is my confidence (misplaced?), but my wife caught me just as I was pressing the bet now button.