Has no-one really had anything to say in the past week? Hmmph! Not much to report here and no real plans for the weekend - but a MAHOOSSIVE basket of ironing to do.

That's what rugby matches on the TV are for.

And make it more of a chore than it needs to be? I'd prefer a spaghetti western or WW2 film...

Nah, sport's more efficient to iron to. You can hear from the commentary whether it's a bit you really want to be watching and if you miss anything significant they'll almost certainly repeat it.

Ironing? What's that? In the states, it's the Super Bowl this weekend. Lots of handegg.

Mmm . . . sounds like it could hold a lot of pretzels.

(pen) I'm building a telescope. It has a 5" lens that someone gave me but of course you have to mount it, as Andy Gray would say.

The weather is lovely here, now that it has stopped raining. For the moment.

Im just going to say something so KagomeShuko's portrait of Father Christmas finally disappears off the top of the page.
This may involve gratuitous line breaks

or even spurious paragraph breaks
but who cares?
In other news, it's fair in Rotterdam this morning - sunny, blue skies, 8C, and the hellebore in the garden is about to bloom - for the first time in 2 years.

It worked!

Now you can go fishing by crushing the hellebore and throwing into a pool. I am unreliably informed this will 'stun' the fish.

A quick bit of market research. If you went into a cafe/bar at lunchtime for a panini, what filling would you want?

If I went in just once then probably something in the Ham & Cheese line - if I went in regularly I'd want a selection. Last Saturday Mrs INJ and I shared a Mushroom and Gorgonzola and a Tuna Melt.