hob clean

Okay. My hob top and the surfaces of the rings are not perfect, but they are much better than they were. Another scrubdown like that in a week or two, and then keeping on doing it regularly, should keep the thing reasonably clean, if not quite sparkling.

What else . . . ah. Yes. Since I plan to be away Thursday - Sunday (visiting Guernsey, then home) I must take care when I do my shopping tomorrow that I don't buy too much perishable stuff. Right.

The Doctor Who episode this evening (Father's Day) was, shall we say, not too unpredictable (though there was at least one big shock moment). But . . . well, it made me cry. Well played by the cast. Good writing by the writer (Paul Cornell, so that's not really surprising).

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(a few verses from http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/122.html )

certain maxims of archy

[...]

i once heard the survivors
of a colony of ants
that had been partially
obliterated by a cow s foot
seriously debating
the intention of the gods
towards their civilization

[...]

there is always
something to be thankful
for you would not
think that a cockroach
had much ground
for optimism
but as the fishing season
opens up i grow
more and more
cheerful at the thought
that nobody ever got
the notion of using
cockroaches for bait

-- Don Marquis