I blame Las Ketchup....

Tuesday, 8pm

Thought for the Day - Never tell anyone to watch where they're treading - they will always instantly stand on what you wanted them to avoid

Pug Status - Snoring peacefully through Holby City

Bring in the washing, shut all the windows and cancel the application for the evening class in Advanced Precipitation Manipulation - the rain finally came. At exactly the same time that I remembered I had left my trainers in the garden....

Obi Pug Kenobi detests the rain, leaving it to the very last minute to answer any call of nature and doing so with one leg off the ground to minimise paw contact on wet grass. So I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up after muddy paws and also trying to find an online supplier of pug-sized galoshes....

Just finished clearing up after dinner, not my favourite task in the world. No time-saving appliance saves less time than a dishwasher, especially if it's the one that I am using. More temperamental than a Hollywood star at a badly-attended premiere, it refuses to work if I put the dinner plates in there. Or if any dish or saucepan is incorrectly aligned by less than a millimetre. And, regardless of how carefully I load it, I always, always have one dish or pan that won't fit in....

So I have to wash up anyway. Which kind of defeats the point of having a dishwasher. And because the pans are quite dirty I make sure I run plenty of hot water. Which I forget is really hot about half a second after I put my hands in the bowl. (Only girls wear rubber gloves to wash up. And possibly also Customs officers). So there's a slight delay between me thinking "Oops, I shouldn't have done that really" and me screaming like a Samurai warrior who has just been smacked in the family jewels by the corner of a Steinway piano....