Perhaps I should have bought a Maytag

If I had bought a Maytag - this man may have built it for me. 

This could be a big week. Wednesday is in the diary as clothes dryer repair day. 

This may or may not be the case as I have been disappointed before and I may get a call on Tuesday saying that they have not finished plating the parts with gold and there may be another delay. 

In this event I will probably throw a wobbly and go down to the Miele shop and buy a new dryer.

This will do me no good at all because the waiting time will be six months – but it will make me feel better to know that I have a backup. 

I am now quite accustomed to drying things on the wire thingy - which seems to work just fine - just a bit slow. 

I mean it was not so long ago that we all got along with just clothes lines and indeed I can remember a time when I used to wash clothes by boiling them in a copper tub and dried them on a line propped up with wooden poles. 

Before this I used to take them down to the river and bash them on stones - and had to fight the grizzlies off while I was doing it -  but then I am very old.

Australia has lost the only opportunity it had to win the ashes.  Kevin Pietersen was caught speeding in a ‘high powered supercar’ in Melbourne.

‘The English batsman was caught behind the wheel of a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 doing 121 km/h in a 100 zone on the Geelong Ring Road.’

Now this would seem to me to have been be a golden opportunity to lock him up for some months – together with the rest of the English cricket team who were obviously accomplices – but no – they let him go with a fine – and shall reap the consequences of that foolish behavior.

And Cate has apparently not finished gallivanting. She is probably off to Indonesia for a few days this week and will swing by Australia to see her ancient mother again.