Unexpected

The handyman rolled up. Not exactly a surprise- because we were expecting him sometime soon but not perhaps on a Saturday morning. I've just helped him shift all the stuff out of the lobby so he can set about decorating it.

He's Thai. Matthew put us in touch with him. Matthew and Julia know all sorts of interesting people.

Assorted Trivia

1. My sister regularly brings clippings from her garden for me to dispose of because we have space for bonfires and compost heaps and she doesn't. After we'd unloaded the bags this afternoon we realised- from the state of her boot- that she'd also brought us a consignment of ants to add to our already outstanding collection.


2. I watched the Derby because my mother does. The commentators were going on and on about a superhorse that was so certain to win it was hardly worth betting on anything else- and it came in fourth.


3. Some of the young carers who come to sort my mother out refer to their boyfriends as "my other half". This strikes me as frightfully old fashioned but perhaps it's a case of the quaint becoming retro and therefore cool.

Prequels

How come, when everybody says they hate spoilers, the entertainment industry keeps serving up prequels- which are stories with spoilers built in?

Are you desperate to know what Han Solo got up to before he became Harrison Ford? Me neither.