After Cannes wrapped up last year, Kate and I spent a few days in London decompressing and getting some other stuff done; this year, we’d planned to come home via her old stomping grounds in the north of England. Cannes didn’t happen, but we figured we might as well burn off our Aeroplan points before Air Canada decides to change the redemption rates … so here we are.

Posting may be sporadic over the next few days, is what I’m saying. I don’t know how much internet they can spare out on the Welsh coast.

In other news, the “Night at the Museum” sequel beat the “Terminator” sequel over the weekend, and Michael Haneke’s latest exercise in icy European cruelty took the Palme d’Or — no surprise, really, what with Haneke’s muse Isabelle Huppert chairing the jury.

I kid, I kid. If there was a Blu-ray disc of “Time of the Wolf” available over here, I’d have bought it already …