Had an interesting day, put up some trellis for my ex, took my daughter to lunch and then fixed her bike plus a hundred mile drive each way. Then just as I'm gearing up to start scribbling Bike, my glasses fell apart or shall we say, a lens fell out. I then spent a fruitless twenty minutes trying to find the screw responsible only to discover it was still in the frame. It's a weird arrangement because the screw holding the lens in is under the arm not on the top and I couldn't see it because I didn't have my glasses.

Suffice it to say, by the time I'd managed to reassemble my spectacles I was too tired to start writing. My daughter's bike was something else. somehow she broke the end off the mudguard down by the crank and the little bracket that holds the thing at the top of the forks was seemingly lost. I thought I was going to have to improvise some form of bracket, only to discover, when we cleared the mud away, that it was stuck on the top of the broken piece of mudguard down the bottom of the frame. Once we got the old bit out, I used the new cordless drill I'd had to buy - the old one died and the battery won't charge - to put a new hole in the end of the mudguard moved it all round a bit, replaced the bracket, using a screw from the bottle cage fitting and it all seemed to work fine. I'd bought the drill to fix the trellis for my ex, though I'd been looking at drills for ages wondering when the old one would expire. Couldn't decide which one I wanted, so in the end had to get one quickly and managed to acquire one which comes with a second lithium ion battery, so that should keep me making holes in things for a few years. It also saved my daughter twenty or thirty quid for new mudguards and I felt useful to both my girls, albeit with skills learnt in a previous incarnation.

I'm off to bed shortly, so you'll have to make do with a different dormouse picture.