Got back from a weekend in the cotswolds on sunday night; visiting Han’s Mum for her brithday. We visited Stratford and Evesham and had a thoroughly enjoyable time. One bit of excitement occured when Han locked my car inside the car. After much checking of doors and attempts to push the windows down we called the AA. They didn’t utilise a skeleton key as I was expecting, but wedged a gap open between the doorframe and the car and, using various bit of bendy metal, wound down the window. Apart from a few scratches, Gordon survived unscathed.

The wrinklies arrive back tonight after an extended break in Spain.

Also many happy returns for last thursday to Pliskin.

dear god! how stressful was that! some shocking batting and some brilliant bowling from warne and lee, meant it was down to hoggsey and the king of spain to hit the winning runs. epic stress, but great to take the lead in the series!

on the bowling front i got a record score (for me) of 149. good fun.

ok, i think i have figured out how to play clarke and warne. 232/6 with tresco 108 n/o. i shall try again!

and he wins at last! with one ball and one wicket to spare!

i got 133 with england and was going well until warne came on – can’t handle him!

193/9 warne and clarke again!

got 91 with australia… we’re still miles away from the target though!

the free drinks machine at work is the very same model we used to have to endure at the pepper factory! dear gods, the memories! and yes, everything that emerges from it tastes like slight variations of filth. (a bit like the drinks machine encountered by arthur dent in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy where he tries to get a simple cup of tea and get something which is not quite, but nearly completely unlike tea.) all except the hot chocolate which is palatable. To be honest I haven’t tried many of the other variations (pear and apple drink, chicken soup, veg soup, etc) as after the tea and diet pepsi i’m not sure my tastebuds could handle it!

once again i spent an inordinately long amount of time in the garden yesterday. Watering this time, whereas yesterday i was only collecting veg. M and D always go away when the garden needs most tending it seems to me… just heading out now to check the eggs and feed the chickens.