S o, it's the longest day of the year - and remarkably it's pretty sunny and pleasant so far. Go figure! (What's more there should be some nice toastiness by the end of the week too, so the parentals - who are holidaying in Scotland - should have a break from the rain too!)  Plenty of stuff to keep me occupied today. More articles to write and top 'n' tail, more stuff to ebay and also some ruthless 'chucking out' of stuff I don't really absolutely need.  All going reasonably well.

Dividing thoughts between musings on the great unpublished novel (Kerry recently prodded me to do more work on that and, yes, yes, I WILL), making a list of  the bills I have to pay tomorrow to avoid undoing unpleasant letterage and, of course,  sending best thoughts towards Jilly's dad who's having surgery this week. Wish I was out there, but the next trip is getting ever closer, so won't be long.

In the meantime, I had to smile at some of the cellophane packaging on one of Sunday's newspapers today. The supplements usually come wrapped in basic plastic stuff that is merely discarded, but printed on it today (around a special FILM supplement) was...

SAFETY NOTICE: Please do not dispose of this plastic bag on the street where it could dance around among the leaves in front of red garage doors for fifteen minutes and make the son of a repressed United States Marine Corps Colonel want to video it and tell the girl next door that there's so much American beauty in the world he feels like he can't take it, like his heart is going to cave in...

:)