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About time. Could be useful for work/holiday.

Screensaver shows current track title and artist, time remaining, etc. Winamp only.

Not that I'm planning to take this up, you understand, but it is noticeable that the dancers that visit our village every year and dance in the middle of the road are always the same aging faces. They barely have enough dancers as it is – a couple of illnesses/deaths could mean the end of the group.

Jim al-Khalili has a gift for explaining complex ideas in an entertaining, lucid and understandable way. I'll be watching this programme.

How handy. I have a long lost bank account that I want to track down. It should have, oooh, about a fiver in it.

I like these lights a lot. The metal halide version appeals a lot to me, although the £450 price tag is less appealing.

Worth reading. The best advice I had was to only ever buy live mussels (we get them more-or-less straight off the boat) and to tap them when you clean them. Live, fresh mussels will close when tapped. Anything that doesn't move is dead and therefore suspect (though, I suppose, still quite edible if fresh).

Steam works – that we know from past experience. But tonight is the first time I've tried raw onion as a decongestant – it's amazing! I could breathe easily after only two mouthfuls.

Purveyors of all kinds of fruit trees, bushes and plants.

I'm not convinced by this. My father had to go to hospital last week. For the last 70-odd years, he would have been treated at St Richards. As it was, he was transferred to the half-built Queen Alexandra at Cosham, another 30 minutes away.

Rural poverty in southern England is rapdily increasing. I don't think that this will be a shock to anyone living in Sussex or Kent. What to do about it? Well, a start would be to release more land for housing so that supply increases and prices fall (after the recovery, which will surely come).