It looked red in the packet

My new toothbrush is pink. I didn't mean to buy a pink one particularly, but there you are.

Actually, buying toothbrushes is now quite fun. In the old days, when they were made by paintbrush companies and were just a bit of plastic with some bristles shoved in one end, they were rather boring. But now they are all exotic shapes and colours with things like "high performance" and "super whitening action" written all over their shiny packages. Of course they also cost around ten times what they used to as well, but that is the price of toothbrush progress I suppose.

Anyway, I enjoy reading the claims and weighing up which particular type of tufted, high performance, spiral weave brush structure would best serve my dentistry. I will never be able to afford a Ferrari, but at least I can have a toothbrush that sounds like it might be one.

Bought It

I was up town today and noticed that the "Everything for a pound" shop is now completely empty. I wonder if someone actually did go in and manage to buy everything. For a pound.

Curse of Friday the 13th

Today is Friday the 13th. I've been waiting nervously to find out what kind of terror this day, which traditonally brings bad luck to all, is going to deal out to me.

Well, it is late in the evening and the worst thing that has happened so far is that my nice ballpoint pen has run out of ink.

I think I may have got off very lightly, although it is a very nice pen and refils are bound to be expensive.

Winter Drawers On

It was quite cold in the night. In the morning I was back scraping ice off the car.
I'm always confused by the way that the days after christmas seem to have more depressing mornings and evenings. You would think that the nights and mornings would be getting better and lighter, since we are now moving closer to the sun or somesuch. However, the last week has seen huge amounts of grey, dank, unpleasant times. This morning was a bit of an exception, so I took a picture of the event.

Full Episode, Full Fat

I managed to exercise for a whole Simpsons episode tonight. I'd forgotten just how good the first season was. Then I went and spoiled the effect somewhat by having an enormous chilli followed by christmas pudding (I got one half price) covered in cream and custard. Oh, and half a bottle of wine. Then I went and drove my Maclaren F1 very fast into walls (not in a real sense fortunately - and not very well).