Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) by Florence and the Machine. This is from the album Lungs, which I think most people will have heard, but if you haven’t it’s well worth a listen. This track in particular will always remind me of the summer of 2009 – such as it was – and it’s a great one to sing along to.

In other news:

- I’ve set up a group on Facebook – well, everyone else seemed to have one, I didn’t want to be left out – it’s yet another writing group, but hopefully that won’t put you off joining. The idea is it will be a friendly place for writers to share advice, tips and resources in a positive and encouraging environment, so if that sounds like something you’d enjoy, feel free to join in!

- This morning, I spent some time in a state of puzzlement because of a badly written entry on my to-do list. I’d actually written ‘MEDIA POST’, but in my drunken spider handwriting, it looked more like ‘MEO RAT’, which sounds like a Latin insult, and was even more confusing than the ‘jammy spoon‘ episode a couple of weeks ago.

Even worse than the confusion, was the thought that my old primary school headmistress was probably laughing her sensible shoes off in whichever corner of hell they keep mean teachers who pick on little girls.

This woman had a deep aversion to left-handed people in general, she was even more averse to left-handed people whose parents had the audacity to get divorced – if it had turned out that, by some fluke, I was also CofE, I think she’d have sent someone off to the store cupboard to dig out the ducking stool.

A generation before, she would have insisted I use my right hand, but that wasn’t allowed by the time I started school. Instead, she would come into the classroom, stand behind me and make ‘helpful’ remarks to the effect that I was doomed to certain failure because no one would ever be able to read what I wrote. With hindsight, I suppose I could have pointed out the fact that by the time I left school the world would have progressed into one in which handwriting documents was practically an obsolete art form, and everything would be produced with keyboards, but, I suppose she could counter that by reminding me it would still be better if I could actually read my own post-it notes.

- Could some kind soul suggest something good to watch on television? Now Survivors and Being Human have ended, I’m at a complete loss, I don’t seem to be able to find anything that doesn’t involve cookery, dancing celebrities, or Ant and Dec cooking dancing celebrities – I made that last one up, but I think it could work!

I did watch 5 Days last week, which started well, but then turned out to be a bit of a damp squib. Lured in by the promise of a ‘tense thriller’, I watched every night, but not much happened, it was neither tense, nor thrilling. Before the penultimate episode, the announcer told us there would be a ‘terrifying incident at a royal walkabout’. Ooh, I thought, it’s finally getting somewhere. However, instead of a terrifying incident, one of the characters had a panic attack, but then felt better.

Bernard Hill and Anne Reid were very good, in fact, the series would have worked better if it had focused on them, instead of trying to be something it wasn’t. Ultimately, the plot was quite preachy, concentrating on ‘issues’, and the portions that should have been tense and thrilling were predictable and obvious – oh come on, who couldn’t guess that Maureen, the hard-faced cleaner, was also Soraya, the not-so mysterious lady of the night?!

Anyhow, if anyone can suggest something good – it doesn’t have to be tense and thrilling but that would be a bonus – I’ll be very appreciative.

That’s all, have a great weekend

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