Friday 23^rd March, 2018 1930

Besides being utterly knackered this morning, at least the day was better than yesterday. Lately I have taken to being one half of the dialogues in the book. I got tired of waiting for volunteers to be A and B and to be honest, the English majors are only slightly more forthcoming than the early education folks.

It seems to be working, I have been given rounds of applause! Ok, I do a great irate fishwife and a passable spurned lover but only by virtue of not having to use all my concentration in actually reading the scripts, which of course they do. Maybe that's the road ahead, at least here anyway.

I found myself actually hungry when I went to Pizza Hut for breakfast. Instead of ordering one though, I tried again for a panini and lo and behold, they had them. Great, ham, cheese and egg panini please with two bangers. The sausages were a side dish of course. Despite the photograph on the menu depicting melted cheese oozing from the bread, the staff appear not to have entirely grasped the concept of a panini because they toasted the roll and then filled it with everything else being stone cold. As for the sausages, never again. Chicken sausages should be outlawed. Next time it's going to be bacon, eggs and French toast!

I also went to the underground supermarket afterwards to buy some tinned tuna, I may make my own lunch for next Wednesday. This time I opened my eyes – where the tuna was (the first time it struck me as an odd place to have tinned fish) is a very small section of imported foods. Loads of varieties of pasta, herbs, cereals etc although no bran flakes and the cornflakes are not Kelloggs. If they ain't Kelloggs they ain't cornflakes and anyway they don't help with keeping you regular.

The commute today was also pleasant, I was the only passenger both ways. Didn't stop Hu Hamilton from driving like a lunatic though.

When I got back I made my usual stop at the jing jo shop, put my customary 2 x 258ml of jing and 3 x 600ml of Snow lager on the counter, cost \58 (standard joke when I go in, they immediately chant “ooh sher bah” which is 58 in Chinese) and the husband produced a small bag. As I went to pick the items up and fill said bag I felt something on my hand. It was raining! Whoa! Hold on a minute! There was a pinhole in one of the cans and by my disturbing it, it was emitting a fine spray. Turned out to be a result, I was given it free and told to drink it quickly! I did not need to be told twice.