Pica Pica

It’s a couple of months since my 60th bash, but you might find this amusing all the same.

We had (dark) red and (ivory) white flying balloons at the party. There was some helium left. So after everyone had gone, we tried a few things out. That sad old song “Skibbereen” seems particularly moving when performed with a lungful of helium.

And my housekeeping tip this week is: when the garbage has been collected, you bring in the empty bin, open the lid and are knocked back by the stench – it is a sign that it could do with cleaning out!

As to health – if you go to the Fish Market at and eat fried prawn dimsum that were warm behind the counter rather than being cooked to order – don’t be surprised if the world gets more and more unpleasant as the afternoon goes by and you end up with your oesophagus working in reverse. I learnt this yesterday.