Work is so intense at the moment that spare time is spent with friends or the seductive cocktail of Matt and the idiot lantern. What with the coming election, the marginal status of my constituency and the activities of the BNP in Hainault, this rampant hedonism must surely stop. But for now, specially for Barkingside 21, here is something lovely from last weekend when we showed some visitors, old friends from Barnsley-way, a good time in Claybury Park with a solar airship from the Science Museum.
Those things are great, I had one. It would float up until it got higher than the garage, then the cool breeze would make it fall down. Up and down, up and down. It was positively obscene.
Kept ours on a tight tether and made a quantity of child-friendly innuendos.