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Upset an open bottle of liquid laundry detergent. I’ve written about something similar happening at least twice before, so you’d think by now I’d’ve switched to an easier-to-clean-up claggy powder or those harder-to-spill dangerously edible-looking pods or tablets, but no. I squeegeed most of the spillage into an open container, which I later bunglingly spilt on newly delivered parcel of coffee beans, but I’m pleased to say the Ecover didn’t penetrate the adequate packaging.
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In the shower, I dropped a full container of exfoliating face wash on my big toe, and might have cried “this is what I get for caring for my skin”. It made me wonder what top footballers do to avoid the risk of this kind of injury – are their shampoos and shower gels fixed to the wall like in a budget hotel? Equally, in wasteful fancier hotels you get those tiny bottles of toileteries, whose small size limits the damage they’ll do to any foot they’re dropped on.
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The Wikipedia article for web page used to be illustrated with a picture of the Wikipedia article for web page, but some bore has changed it. (Oh well. The Grokipedia article doesn’t have any pictures, which is worse.)
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Bicycle maintenance. (I have adopted my da’s unwanted bike, to use as a “winter beater” or something.) I cleaned a fabulously dirty chain, but maybe the dirt was actually serving a useful purpose – like how limescale stops your kettle leaking and makes the water pressure on your shower seem higher (like putting your thumb on the end of a hose). Then I had to clean the carpet, the soles of my feet, and the bathtub that the blackened grease had found its way onto.
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Went to Norwich’s second Ikea. That’s deliberately misleading, as if Norwich has as many Ikeas as the whole of Scotland, really it’s only a small Ikea with limited stock and a click-and-collect facility, and Norwich’s first Ikea closed some years earlier. The side plates they sell these days are slightly smaller than the old landlord-provided ones here from two corporate typefaces ago, but toast has stayed the same size, and the result is more crumbs. I know yabbering about plate sizes is deeply Partridge but I’m intgrigued by the massive Flamsig 32 cm plate, that’s more than twelve inches, but it’s not stocked in the small Ikeas.
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🎦 Bugonia (2025).