Oh dear!

On the bright side, you won’t have to drive in the heat of the day when everyone else in France is on the road because it’s a holiday.

I’m racking my brains to find a way around the drill not being quite long enough. If you can’t risk making the holes in the sheet when it is away from Bertha, maybe the only solution is to buy or borrow a longer drill bit. I’ll look out for one.

Lip balm

Is there no end to the properties of this humble product?

“When I feel the first tingle of a cold sore I put peroxide on it and I don’t remember the last time I actually has a cold sore that fully developed.”

Hydrogen peroxide

Having laid on a coat of sealer, followed by two coats of paint, followed by another coat of sealer, thicker this time, and another two coats of paint, and then yet another coat of paint, which has left a slightly less violently yellow stain than before, I came across this gem, online:

“Fill a spray bottle with diluted peroxide (2 to 1 with water). Spray the stained area. Allow the area to dry. You may have to do this twice to remove the stain entirely.”

So, curing all known lurgies isn’t the only thing that magical liquid can do.

I met your neighbours as I was leaving this morning. They asked if I was your new tenant. I explained who I was, and Anne nodded, looking pained, saying she thought she remembered me. Probably, she had had a fleeting mental glimpse of me hammering the final nails into the treehouse this time last year!

Surely not

According to these guys (www.housepricecrash.co.uk/graphs-bubble-lifecycle.php) “this is the DNA of a bubble. As the months and years progress we should be able to track the UK housing market as it follows it’s path along much the same route as this chart. At the time of writing (Feb 2008) I would say that we are in the ‘Denial’ stage. Make sure you are strapped in tightly and get ready for the ride!”