Kind: Notes

I guess it's the laptop and the pile of towels that cause the confusion, but people keep asking me questions (usually in Spanish) about where to get towels from and whether they can use the pool at this hotel.

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Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and a blue ponytail, sits at a poolside table in a hotel roof terrace, using his laptop alongside a pile of towels.

And I have to keep explaining that nope, I don't work here, I'm just watching my kids play while I catch up on my RSS reader!

Well that was pretty spectacular. 🤩

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Over the silhouette of hills, a total solar eclipse is just coming to an end, with a 'diamond ring' effect resulting from the sun's reappearance visible.

No green and only two black wine gums in this bag? Feeling robbed.

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On a desk, a packet of Maynards' Wine Gums has been emptied out and its contents sorted by colour: there are five orange, two black, and ten red sweets.

Sainsburys grapes confuse me.

500g of white grapes are £2. 500g or red grapes are £2.20. So you'd expect 500g of half-red, half-white grapes to be... £2.10, right? But no, that's £2 too.

So buying 500g of white grapes and 500g of red grapes is cheaper if you buy the mixed packs and then separate them. Why!?

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Online shopping screenshot showing four packets of seedless grapes. 500g red grapes are £2.20; 500g white grapes are £2.00; 500g red & white grapes are £2.00; 900g mixed (red, white and black) grapes are £3.95.

Apparently, zero of the imagineers building this Disneyland Paris cafe conceived that "Chuck Wagon" sounds like what a cowboy would call a wheeled vomit trough. 😂

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Faux Old-West building painted with lettering identifying it as the Chuck Wagon Cafe.

An unexpected start to the kids' and I's glamping weekend last night when the static caravan behind our dome burned to the ground. We spent most of our night half way down a field watching the fire crews tackle the blaze.

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A static caravan is engulfed in flames behind a dome tent, at night.

(Nobody was injured; the residents were able to escape out of a window.)

A hundred and fifty one days since we were flooded out of our house, and I needed to visit to meet a contractor. The garden's starting to get a little wild, this summer: we've been periodically visiting to mow the lawn, but our hedge seems to have decided that this could be the year that it will consume the gate once and for all...

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In a verdant garden, an unkempt hedge of various species grows into the space of a green-painted wooden gate, beginning to hide it.

Trouble brewing at the village carnival's decorated-bike competition as, for perhaps the first time in history, a viking longship rams and boards an X-wing of the Rebel Alliance.

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A cardboard longship collides with an X wing in a grassy field.

Dad Joke of the Day came to me early when some fellow dog walkers coming the other way said "Hello, gorgeous!"

"Ooh, thank you!" I replied, nonchalantly tussling my hair and striking a coquetteish pose.

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Dan poses with a coquetteish grin while walking a French Bulldog along a gravelled rural path.

Always reassuring when you fill in a company's contact form and the next page is placeholder text...

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Thanks For Your Enquiry title, followed by 'Aliquam vehicula laoreet lacus, ac vulputate purus vulputate...' etc.

Some mornings... you just gotta make a whole damn litre of coffee.

(for iced coffee purposes, of course; and definitely not just for me!)

Demmy would like to know why I haven't turned off the UK's heatwave yet. 🥵

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Close up of the face of a fawny French Bulldog with her tongue blepping out to the side.