This won't hurt much....

Monday, 10pm

Thought for the Day - Always expect the dishwasher door to be down when you walk into the kitchen

Pug Status - Neatly manicured and full of antidotes

A trip to the vets today - took Obi Pug Kenobi for a booster injection and nail trim, puppy Bob for his ten-week jab. Despite the presence of needles, there was just one heart-rending yelp before a mad scramble for the safety of the car - and that was just me after paying the bill. Poor Obi will have to pay a return visit to get her teeth scaled and polished in the near future and, given the cost of NHS treatment these days, I may well jump on the table with her....

Spent the rest of the afternoon scrubbing the kitchen - the dining room table is now so clean you could eat your dinner off it. Made the mistake of emptying the crumb tray on the toaster, which I can only assume was manufactured from scraps from the original Tardis judging by the knee-deep pile of toast shards on the kitchen floor. It was like being trapped on a giant bird-table....

Enjoying the lovely weather today - stuck on a Bob Marley CD, popped open a cold one, pulled up a deckchair and tried to pretend I was in Barbados, an illusion quickly shattered by the sound of very British lawnmowers. I was going to be brave and take my t-shirt off, but I can't do impressions....

Seemed to have accumulated a fair bit of garden and household rubbish this week. I rang the council to ask if it would be OK to have a skip outside my house. They said I could run, hop or cartwheel if it I wanted to....