Believe it or not

These are exercise machines. Costco is full of crap like this. As shopping experiences go it’s rather depressing. You go in for household essentials and come out with a new tv, a paddling pool and a multipack of dog biscuits even though you don’t own a dog. Some mysterious force takes you over and reduces you to a consumer zombie. 

We stuck to our list of party essentials and didn’t buy anything silly. 

In the afternoon we spent a lovely couple of hours in The Birdwatcher’s Arms and both agreed that having your own pub at the bottom of the garden was one of our better ideas. 

Only downer was that I seem to have developed all the symptoms of hay fever. It was reported that a series of explosions had rocked Woking. That was me sneezing…