Don’t You Remember You Told Me You Loved Me Baby

• I am having the hardest time choosing some new glasses. I am desperate. My old frames are so old, I think I’ve had them ten years, and the lenses keep popping out. But I just can’t decide on any. Ugh, this is why I’ve had my others for so long, picking new ones is just too hard.

• On the bus last night coming home a woman got on with her two children. The youngest one (she was maybe 3) let out a scream as she got on and threw herself on the seat. I thought she was having a tantrum, and then I smelled smoke, which seemed weird. The little girl gestured to her back and her mum lifted her shirt. There was ash there and a burn mark. Someone had thrown away a cigarette and it must have got caught in her shirt and burned her as she got on the bus, hence the scream of pain. The mum went barmy at a man she believed had thrown the cigarette. He just sat there saying ‘No no no,’ and she went on and on and then at one point I swear he said something like ‘I didn’t mean to’ or similar. It seemed to me he had done it as he had said he’d been smoking before he got on the bus, but maybe he just looked uncomfortable because he was being screamed at? The mum went to the driver (not sure what he was going to do?) but the guy got off the bus. The girl was ok but did have a welt on her back. So smokers, please be really careful with your cigarettes!

• I am very fed up of having to fend off ‘helpful’ people when I go into my bank to pay in a cheque. In the one nearest to work the cashiers are downstairs, and a while ago they started shutting the doors and stationing people in front of them to ‘welcome’ you and ‘help’. It’s really frustrating every time you go in to have to try and get by them. I’m not here to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx, just let me by! And then I feel rude, but look, I know you can help me pay it in up here, but I’m old fashioned, I want to give it to a person, I don’t care if I have to queue, just leave me alone!

• I wouldn’t have to do this if my flatmate would just do online banking.

• I am currently reading Catch-22 and really not enjoying it at all. I feel bad, I know it’s a classic but it’s just all over the place, I don’t care about anyone, I can hardly understand what’s going on, and I have lots of other books I’d really rather be reading, since my lovely friend got me books for my birthday. I will stick with it a bit longer and see how I go. I hate giving up on books, but life just seems too bloody short for this.

• I have Superstar by The Carpenters stuck in my head.