Is it just me

Or do these fried eggs look like a really evil ghost? Like the ones they had in Pac-Man back in the 1980s.

Maybe it's a matter of perception. My senses were a bit awry today. The cold won't go away and I think it has affected my brain. Remember that line of Tony Curtis' in Some Like it Hot?: "You'll have to excuse my friend, he has an empty stomach and it's gone to his head". Mind and body are inextricably linked.

Our bins weren't emptied today. I went on to the council website to report it and apparently we are on the naughty step for putting black bags in the recycling bins. It's a tough world. 

I took some of the rubbish to the dump as I was going there anyway. Someone had thrown a guitar in the wood skip which made me sad (see extra). One of the dump men had a huge door and attached door frame which he was holding alongside him and making a speech about. I couldn't quite work it out, something about lions and wardrobes. But it was quite surreal.

As was the weather. Nineteen degrees today and sunny. I went out without any socks on it was that warm. Nineteen degrees in the middle of October, that's crazy.

Not as crazy as Donald Trump. Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called his latest TV appearance “bonkers.” Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: “The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign...and in Trump. He went from being periodically adrift and sporadically demented to being 24/7 unfit and in need of permanent medical attention. He's one cloudless night away from baying at the moon.” (This from the daily email of US political commentator Heather Cox Richardson who pointed out that "Trump’s issues make it likely that a second Trump presidency would really mean a J.D. Vance presidency, even if Trump nominally remains in office. "

I channel hopped briefly whilst eating my lunchtime hummus. There was an old film called The Three Amigos with Martin Short and Martin Sheen in their relative youth. I watched the first five minutes to see what they used to look like (I am a big fan of Only Murders in the Building these days) but was struck by the name of one of the supporting actors: Fred Asparagus. He was a real comic actor on TV and in films but died of a heart attack when he was only 51. Can't help wondering what lead him to choose that moniker for his career. Perhaps his mate Ted Parsnip suggested it to him...

Anyway some days are just weird. This was definitely one of them. Personally I blame my own mental state on withdrawal from Night Nurse (I forgot to take it last night). 

I really need to get out more.