Rain

Damn, the weather has beaten me. My big pile of stuff to be burnt is soaked through, and so would I be if I was silly enough to try and make it burn, firelighters or not. I am quite disappointed about this, so have had to treat myself to a Chinese take away to compensate. And I ate every last grain of rice with chop sticks.

It was a pleasant enough Chinese, a chicken szechuan, but it leads me to an important question: does anybody actually like water chestnuts? They have a vaguely unpleasant texture, and a vaguely unpleasant non-taste. I always eat them, but I'm never sure why afterwards. And I'm not sure if it's the water chestnuts or the bamboo shoots, but I have the distinct feeling in my mouth that I've been eating wood...