A note from the Editor 4

Another year another issue. The 03 has changed to 04. Its finally time to open up that new FHM (insert appropriate lads mag title) calendar and start dreaming that chalet girls should look like the scantily bikini clad Miss January. As the big hand and little hand converged on the number 12, most of 1850 converged on the Croisette for the customary New Year's celebrations. Champagne and fireworks mixed in the correct proportions to make a cocktail that have the correct proportion of fizz and bang. And if your name is Simon Hooper or Pascal Piazzalunga a suitably large safety exclusion zone combined with the confiscation of all fire creating products should be factored in. Unlike England, where health and safety and anti-terrorist measures have put pay to any sort of pyrotechnical display, fireworks are readily available to anyone who can walk into the French toy shop.
It should be made clear that a more appropriate description for a French toy shop is the French dangerously sharp/debilitating/high explosive shop.
Happy New Year to you all.