Inking the deal

The Gorse Fox must start today's blog by talking about yesterday evening. We went along with the Sonning Crew to Southampton. Arriving a little early, we stopped into a pub for a drink before carrying on to the theatre for dinner. The Ovation Restaurant on the top floor of the Mayflower opened at 17:30 and we were the first guests. They were smart enough to realise that the Gorse Fox's booking for 2 and 4 was really a booking for 6 and had allocated a table for us all. The food, as before, was excellent and we had a very leisurely meal with plenty of chat, and plenty of laughter. We decided that the sweet course could wait for the intermission and just had teas and coffees before the show.

We had excellent seats in the stalls with an uninterrupted view. Bill Bailey started at eight and within minutes had us in stitches with his observations of the current political landscape. We thought Tinkerbell would need oxygen as she rocked back and forth with laughter - nearly disappearing under the seat in front of her. It really was an uplifting couple of hours of laughter and brilliant music. Bill Bailey is really so incredible funny, so intelligent, and best of all - clean!

The show finished at about 22:20 and we were home by 23:30. What a brilliant evening. The Gorse Fox cannot remember the last time he laughed so much.

Today started slowly. Coffee, porridge, and the papers before Urban-Cub turned up with Ellie and Cousteau-Cub in tow.  Urban-Cub and Ellie didn't stay for long but did go round to feed the ducks. The Gorse Fox, meanwhile, took Cousteau-Cub out to do some food shopping for while we are are away.

Back home the nice man from Amazon had dropped off some printer ink. Frankly, the Gorse Fox wishes he hadn't. The Gorse Fox made the mistake of buying from a cheap OEM source. The first cartridge he tried to use leaked copies amounts of printer ink over his desk, his keyboard, and his study carpet. By the time he's cleaned it all up he was very irritated, and the carpet was ruined. He tried a second cartridge. This one didn't fit properly and the printer would not register its presence. The Gorse Fox wrote his first ever 1-star review on Amazon and then paid full price for a set of Canon original inks.