I know, I know, I know. I haven't written anything here for ages. I am sorry. Truth is, little has been happening that's worth posting*. Possibly the most exciting event recently was escaping in one piece, Crystal Maze-style, from our local Currys before the hulking great security guard, who perches on high surveying his fiefdom, wrestled us to the ground and bludgeoned us into insensibility with a selection of toasters from Russell Hobbs and Bellini.

Shows how fun our lives are. We also had a man in 'fixing' our bathroom. I use the quotation marks deliberately, as it appears that rather than fix the root of the damp problem (basement flats are martyrs to this and problems of condensation), he just slapped a layer of Dulux Once over the mould on the ceiling. Reading that back, it makes our flat sound particularly nasty. There was mould, but it wasn't, er, frondey, and looked more just like black marks on the ceiling. It wasn't furry either.

By the way, is that spelling of 'mould' correct in this context? That is to say I don't mean to suggest that there was some kind of negative shape on the ceiling from which people could cast humorous gnomes. I would have sworn the organic matter was spelled differently, but the problem with the otherwise good dictionary.com is that it's based on American English, and I suspect the colonies (as mad old King George III referred to them; or at least, as Nigel Hawthorne referred to them in the film) treat the spelling of that word differently. Since an annual subscription to the OED online costs £195 + VAT, I'm blaming any spelling error on the BBC.

Goodnight.


*Plus, I am beginning to hate MindSay in general, and this template in particular. Will move something more grown up onto my own URL soon.