[Varley]

Two newly learned domestic hints I should pass on.

If you don't want to carefully nuke a bowl of spinach to accompany a decent stew that turns out to be a decent curry then make sure you label what you put in the freezer.

If you wonder that the ball of one of one's newly installed ballcocks is held on to the arm of the device only by virtue of it never operating at an attitude where it would fall off (either held by floating or against the bottom of the cistern) then wonder no more. It can and does come detached and the resulting overwhelming of the overflow can all but bring down the dining-room ceiling.

(Not to mention the wet feet when paddling along for one of the night time pees).

It is said that these things go in threes. So I expect the next hour or so will bring about a spectacular defeat at chess - mine. That or perhaps a Red Arrow will turn rogue and bomb M'Lady's garden where I am invited this evening to watch them.

Heigh-ho! says Anthony Rowley.