My life: the ceaseless round of gaiety. Just spent the last few hours cleaning mould out of the car. My head aches like a large achy head-shaped thing. I did strap a handkerchief over my mouth & nose, but still...

Muchly enjoying QI's Advanced Banter, which is basically an enormous book of quotations from all kinds of sources.

'Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see how they are made.' - Otto Von Bismark

'I sometimes wonder whether our planet is the asylum of the universe for disordered minds.' - Goethe

'If you can't be kind, at least be vague' - Judith Martin


'Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately it kills all its pupils.' Hector Berlioz

'Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.' - James Baldwin