Eleven Things I Have Learned Since My Last Post

1. Nobody looks good in flip-flops.
2. Wasps are essentially stupid and malevolent. They'd do well on The Apprentice.
3. Nobody looks good in flip-flops, but men look worse.
4. Strawberry ice-cream does not count as one of your 'five-a-day'.
5. There is such a thing as too much sunshine.
6. Holly bushes are essentially stupid and malevolent. They'd win The Apprentice.
7. You need to wash your hands twice to get rid of the smell of gardening gloves.
8. Gulliver's World is a theme park. And the theme is larceny (£3.50 for a digital picture print-out of Bandage looking like a big fool on a log flume).
9. Brooklyn is considered a suitable name for a child outside the social circle of the Beckhams. How pleased the child I encountered saddled with that name will be in later life that David and Posh did not name their first-born Tracy, or Toenail.
10. Nobody looks good in flip-flops, but you can make yourself look worse if you are A) male, B) fat, C) wearing those special long shorts, and D) wearing a vest top.
11. Bus travel is not recreational.