Bollards...

... after 11 months, I still haven't quite got the hang of parallel parking my current car.

Aquadrops

I've had a terribly exciting day - first, I almost but not quite made it into the office on time, later I created an excellent office layout map in Visio, then I had a phone call from my favourite radio station, the excellent Planet Rock informing me that I had won a spiffing trip to London to see Tenacious D live, later still the afternoon passed swiftly. Finally, while in Sainsburys I both spotted and remembered to actually buy a packet of AquaDrops "sweets". I haven't had any for a good few months now, and was really quite excited at rediscovering them. They are a delicacy at those "special" times later in the evening when you have a bit of a dry throat and perhaps the merest hint of an urge to eat something, while not actually sure what but you think it might well be a kit-kat. Or some Jaffa Cakes. Or toast. Toast would be good...

Fish

I just read this interesting article and can't help but think that the terminology is wrong. Fish have personalities? Surely not - surely they would be fishonalities, or perhaps even piscanalities?

And now on an entirely different bearing all together: as I nipped out for a beef szechuan earlier this evening (having had to pump up my tyre, hrummmph) I couldn't help but notice that Christmas must now be less than two months away - yes, the locals here in Chavsfield are all busy preparing their annual tribute (in a strictly financial manner) to the electricity supply companies - the gloriously over the top festive lighting...