Lazy camera day.

A lazy day for cameras. Had decided to go out in search of something worth looking at but by the time we got round to it it was pouring again.

Went for a swim instead. Something going on there that really annoys me. Why do some people go to a spa and then spend their time talking about all their day to day goings on in as loud a voice as they possibly can? I don't want to know about your man's affair, your daughter's wedding or your boss's new car. I don't want to know about the colour of your new bed sheets, what the hairdresser did wrong the last time you were there or about the last visit you had to the GP. So gross!

There was a time when people even had written rules about all sorts of things. For example, how and when you should use a napkin. You were not supposed to rub, you were supposed to dab. You were not to use it to remove food from your face (it was never meant to get there in the first place) and you were absolutely, absolutely NOT meant to use it to blow your nose! You would use it during the meal by politely draping it over your lap. You would NOT tuck it in under the collar of your shirt or dress. That was just wrong.

Some of these seem daft. I never understood the one about not putting your hands in your pockets when I was a kid. Then I learned that the "rule" could have stemmed from the belief that it might indicate intent to use a weapon and it made sense. (If I remember correctly, there was a legal ban on people putting their hands in their pockets while walking along the street in Ireland in the period after the Easter Rising in 1916).

Anyway, to cut a long story short, there's a very obvious reason why spas should be quiet places. People want to chill!