Has anybody seen my enthusiasm?

Has anybody seen my enthusiasm? She's been gone since Blue Monday and I've looked everywhere.

I've a horrible feeling that she's got out onto the Internet. She's larger than most, her fur is a lovely silky cream colour with chocolate socks and snout, and there's a corkscrew at the end of her tail, where it got caught in my twisted sense of humour.

If you see her, please tell her that I'm sorry. Of course she doesn't have to go on eating cat biscuits - I've bought some posh chocolate just for her, and we'll share a fresh mango.

Please help. I can't possibly go on nailing jelly to the ceiling without her.

BBQ

As a reward for getting my website finished, I felt I'd earned a day off. Luckily my friends Helen and Theresa felt they'd earned a day off too. So this morning we all met in the flea market in Santa Cruz, and then moved onto the picnic area up at El Pilar.

It was pretty full, but we got lucky. Someone had almost finished cooking for a largish party, and said we could have their hot coals in about five minutes. This was great - much quicker and easier than staring from scratch. We were cooking n under ten minutes and we didn't even have to get our hands dirty.

It was nice food too, my friends brought chicken and salad and I brought sausages and burgers and pudding.

Right. Back to work on that ebook.

A Dotty Ditty

To the tune of "Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud" by Flanders and Swan.

Life, life, glorious life!
It would be boring without all the strife.
So laugh at your trouble,
Fight through the muddle,
And you'll enjoy double
Your glorious life.