In less than two hours Simon is picking me up, and we're going to Maui for the weekend. “Oh, really.” The line was silent for a moment. “And just what are his intentions in this romantic getaway?”

She laughed, a gusty laugh, one that lit up her entire face and told you that she found fun in most situations.

Feeling stuffed to near unbearability, the pair slowly made their way back towards home.

It is well illustrated and it is good to see photographs of macrofauna and microflora of the Cambrian rocks of St Tudwal’s Peninsula; thin section photomicrographs, for example the glomeroporphyritic cluster of andesine and augitic clinopyroxene within the Bryn Crin Basaltic Trachyandesite (Plate 18, page 65), are also very welcome.