As Beautiful As A Dancing Plastic Bag

Unusually we've had a busy Sunday - not for us the long lie and the Sunday play on the radio, although we'll catch up later tonight no doubt.

No, it was a day of varnishing the new doors and getting the place in order for the Official Visit. For tomorrow we will be visited by the Memsahib all 5 foot of her.

Yes she'll be on the Grand Tour starting with her First Class train ride up to The Provinces and ending with a tour of The Athens Of The North.

The upshot is that dinner is late again, we've not had it yet, but I had to pop back to the supermarket for garlic where I spotted another little bit of banal beauty by the side of a building.

It felt like the plastic bag in American Beauty-an unexpected pleasure in an unexpected place.