Saturday, 16 February 2008

Once, our kitchen was adorned by a shelf unit on which Jackie displayed her extensive collection of curios. A year ago she was persuaded to replace this unit with a mirror. Today I replaced the mirror with new shelving. This was not as easy as it sounds because the shelf unit concerned was designed to stand on a floor, and not to be screwed into a wall.

While working, I heard an Italian restaurateur introduced as once having been “saved from a jellyfish attack by David Cameron”. Are our political leaders beyond all control? Where did David Cameron learn this unusual form of attack? And why did he risk his career to attack a restaurateur? I think we should be told.

Later in the day, we heard two lots of bad news – one friend diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and a family with three young children caught out in the great credit sqeeze. We didn’t have a particularly joyeous Saturday night.