* Successful mission completed and here we all are as happy as can be. The journey was a complete pain on the inadequate motorways. It is brought home to anyone unfortunate to attempt a journey of any distance that everything in britain is distributed by articulated lorry. The government talks about charging car drivers to use the roads, it could all be solved at a stroke if all the freight was distributed by some other means e.g. rail and picked up a central points. The government of course isn't going to take on the lorry drivers after the petrol price fiasco.

* Sorry about that but driving is no pleasure. Our friend willingly returned with us so I guess mine and my partners souls are still o.k. I didn't get the chance to raise the subject again as my partner was deep in conversation surveying the current state of the lives of mutual friends and acquaintances in some detail I might add. I brought up my interest in people living together getting married and our friend agreed with me she said the recurring phrase is 'after we married things changed' as our friend says, the only difference is a piece of paper from the registry not known for it's magical properties, its the grasp at a floating plank before it all goes under. Still its a good move if you do think its going drainwards as it puts the splitting up on an more equitable level, I don't want to appear cynical but this also could be part of the consideration.
I also popped round to see uncle Dave, he was spraying water mist on his herbal garden. I mentioned that everytime medicinal herbs get mentioned by the media everyone gets very heated about skunk. They say its 10 to 30 times stronger than the herbs you were using back in the sixties. Uncle Dave just turned and said, 'I wish it was.' So there you go still a disputed area. If old bent brains isn't impressed then it isn't true.

* Picture blog has been updated.