The Lights Are On, But There's No-one Home....

Monday, 9pm

Thought for the Day - Overfilled cardboard boxes will only give way when you are less than an inch from a car boot

Pug Status - Protecting her rights to her favourite chair

More home-improvement japery today as I had to put up a light fitting in our bedroom - he'd missed the last train last night and had no money for a taxi. It was one of those fancy jobs that came with a set of ceiling fans - I never knew there were people that loved ceilings that much....

I did my best impression of Obi Pug Kenobi by sleeping through most of last weeks' Breakfast shows - they didn't bore me, I just didn't get up in time - so after a busy morning I caught up today with the podcast. How I chuckled at Steve's underwear vacuuming japes! Only the other morning in the Castle household the doorbell went early (he was on a half-day), and I had to open the door in my dressing-gown which, I am sure you will agree, is a funny place to have a door. By the time I got there, there was just a parcel on the doorstep. It was an eBay purchase, a collectors' item of 7" singles of songs from 'The Sound of Music', but I failed to see it in time before treading right through the package. I managed to salvage 'Climb Every Mountain' but how I cried as I squashed 'My Favourite Things'....

There was an fascinating programme last night about seasonal food called What To Eat Now, where the presenter did some interesting things with peas (a bit like a cheating athlete faking a drug test). When I was little there used to be a brand called Surprise Peas, which had to be soaked overnight, but I never liked them. You know what you get with Surprise Peas? Wet legs....

Obi Pug Kenobi will soon be immortalised in ink - on my wife's shoulder. Well, it makes a change from me giving her the needle. Although it will be a caricature rather than a portrait our Princess is hopeful that the tattooist will capture her true essence. If it's anything like the essence of pug that she is distributing round the room this evening then I think he'll need a gas mask as well as gloves....