If I had a year like the one Stanley documents in this book, I'd consider it the most marvellous year. Even with its incredible moments and its mundanities. It is the ideal life. Full of delicious food, a loving home, travel, work etc. All so very good things. And reading this book is like a brief escape from everyone else's lives that can only hope to compete with this one. May we all have dinners with random celebrities now and then.