Luxury

Mutterings continued.

My new air con is being delivered tomorrow. Yay! Of course, it's going to be cooler tomorrow than it has been the last couple of days but what the hey.

I had to go out to Cannington tonight to pay for the beast and so missed out on going to see Team America and having dins at Hans. Still, it's a good night for the telly - Morcambe and Wise special on Parkinson and Creature Comforts and Little Britain on the ABC.

Oh dear. " For some Americans, it is the ultimate humiliation, yet hundreds of US citizens preparing to holiday abroad are buying a travel kit that helps them pretend to be Canadian.

The kit, which a US company is selling for $US24.95 ($32), includes a T-shirt with a Canadian flag; Canadian stickers for suitcases; and even a quick reference guide titled How to Speak Canadian, Eh?"

Oh dear, oh dear! "In news that will surprise few of the travellers who cram onto its creaking rail network every day, London Underground admitted that some of its spare parts were sourced from Internet auction site eBay.

The dot matrix passenger information system used by Tube Lines, the part-private consortium which manages three major lines on the subway system, is so outdated that the firm has been forced to find computer cards, chips and other obsolete parts on eBay, London's Evening Standard newspaper said.

Company officials said that there was nowhere else to turn as the equipment was so old."