2) For dinner this evening I was going to make a tuna and pasta bake. It wasn't until I was well on with the preparations that I discovered that I have no tuna. Improvisation was called for. Tuna and pilchard Paste and pilchard bake it was.

3) For dessert I had a mini fruit salad. Well, and apple and an orange. Plus a couple of cherry tomatoes. Keep your comments about knowledge and wisdom to yourself. I added a piece of stilton cheese. Ok it doesn't go with a fruit salad, but it does go with tomatoes.

4) One of the stalls at the Christmas market last weekend sold chocolate novelties. The chocolate had been cast to the shape and size of tools, and then painted to look realistic. Hammers, spanners, paint brushes, etc. Even a butterfly corkscrew. They were very effective, and would make good Christmas presents. There was even a chocolate nut and bolt that actually screwed.

5) Typing up something last week, I accidentally closed the document without saving. No worry, I thought. Word has a retrieval system so you can restore documents that you forgot to save. I've seen the message "if you click 'don't save', a recent copy of this file will be temporarily available". Yeah, right. Even though I realised what I had done straight away, no recent copy of the file was to be found. Luckily it wasn't a document of major importance, and I could rewrite it the following day.

6) I had a senior moment multiplied yesterday at work. I was temporarily sitting at an absent colleagues desk while I tried to fix the stapler. When I left, I noticed a pair of glasses on the desk but didn't think any more of it, other than thinking that the colleague doesn't wear glasses so someone else must have left them there. When he returned he pointed out the glasses and I acknowledged that I had seen them as well. Then: "oh hang on - they're mine". I must have taken them off to look at the stapler and forgotten about them. Yes, I take my glasses off to see things close up.