I missed this topic somehow. But I put together end-of-the-world plans that I actually had to use last week, late at night, when my wife and I were startled by a huge bang in my back garden and a flash that lit up the front room through the crack in the curtains. Immediately after that, something slammed into the patio doors. Ironically, at the time, my wife and I had been watching The Day After Tomorrow, so we had only the side lights on, but even so we could see nothing immediately outside. And we were just coming up to the loud part in the film where a huge tidal wave floods through New York, and eating homemade cookies, which as always resulted in crumbs on the sofa. I often think we should wear bibs, or better still eat in the kitchen, but then we'd have to move the television into the kitchen as well, and if you just knew how many wires that involves, what with the amplifier and the media centre, you'd realise that it's just easier to vacuum afterwards. Either that or we could just eat something without crumbs. But then you can't beat homemade cookies.
