We had curry for tea. It was very nice with lots of herbs and pepper and brown rice may look more healthy and nutritious if it comes in a pale transparent packet but has to be nice if it comes in a purple packet!


The family party is positively looming. I cleaned the bathroom today. I've always had a problem with shower cleaning....it seems silly to take a bucket in there when you can rinse everything from floor to ceiling and wash yourself as well. Only I don't like standing in the cleaning fluid stuff...I've never found a product that says it's ok to use on showers and feet!
Today I found the solution. Feet in plastic bags. Works a treat (but I had to be very careful not to slip while sloshing around in inches of cleaning fluid as I'm quite sure my skin is a not hard enough surface to withstand power cleaning)

So anyway, there I was, yesterday, sitting in a traffic jam and trying to improve the golden hour*

And there's this nice little yellow van exactly matching the estate agent's sign
And as I'm snapping away at him, I realise that the man in the van is really very pissed off with whoever's on the other end of his mobile. Quite unconcerned about a whole traffic queue twenty feet away from him, all sitting there in the hot sun with open windows listening to the chirping of little birds and the breeze rustlng the trees and, no doubt, to him, effing and blinding away at the top of his voice as though nobody else were sharing his planet.
All I can say is, I'm glad I don't share his planet.

*That was actually the queue at the level crossing, so all sitting there with engines off.