Feather/Black marks

Feathers in cap
Conkers found at both Modern Art Gallery and Braidburn this week, despite tree disease scourging horse chestnuts.

Passport photos retaken. Still ugly, but so what. Need passport for when I rob bank and retire to Cook Islands.

New neighbourhood kitty spotted. Long-haired, smoky grey and shy.

Black marks
Just as readable books at the local library are exhausted, the Central Library shuts for a month for refurbishment.

Moths have eaten holes in my good woollen winter skirt, exhumed for autumn. Or maybe they're hotrock burns.

Thins Blackwells bookshop will not allow wee wan to spend up her birthday book tokens on stationary, leaving £2 unspent.

Peter Ballocks phones me pissed and garrulous and still I must be nice because he's collecting hash for the family.