Found on the lawn

Headless mice : 1
Piles of dog poo : 3

V.V. Bad

No, not a particularly disgusting chapter of Bridget Jones' Diary, it's stuff that I picked up in my garden this morning. My garden is a bit like the Hundred Acre Wood in that they both have a Pooh corner. Barney has a prodigious output for a medium sized dog but at least he is consistent about where he outputs it to. He is pretty good in the woods too - he will scootle off the path and go behind a bush, but he usually saves it until we get home.

Dudley today, a nice sunny day, not so much traffic as usual and - uh, oh - what's this approaching the M6? 'Major Roadworks from June to November - long delays expected'. Oh, fan-bloody-tastic. They had nearly a years worth of roadworks two years ago with road widening and bridge repairs that turned the stretch of the M6 from junction 4 to junction 9 into a living nightmare.

Guess which bit I drive on every week? Just to make my happiness complete there are bridge repairs on the M42 just by the junction for the A5 and I expect that they will find somewhere on the M1 to dig up for the summer as well.

Thank goodness for air conditioning and cd players.