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The Panda has banned me from engraving her car.
On my honour (more significant than people think) I hadn't even thought of doing that. 😄

I took a tour of the neighborhood yesterday to check for signage relating to the election; last time, four ir so years back, maybe, there were many houses with lawn, garden or window signs supporting the Conservatives. This time I saw four houses displaying 'gang colours': two for labour, one supporting anti-Tory tactical voting and one for Reform (let's make Britain great) – they're the post-Brexit incarnation of UKIP.
It's of no surprise that our traditionally blue, Conservative, county has become almost solid Labour party red.
Commander Panda, my FiL, said he'd woken up to Labour government and low water pressure. The Panda was thinking of mentioning that the two events are probably mutually exclusive (probably), but it's like he's waiting for the third shoe to drop, poor bloke.

Well, we'll see.
Is the glitter in the air the waving of a magic wand for the country or the fizzle from a Labour party after-party sparkler?
Could go either way.

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I have cat repellent feet.
There has been an uptick in local moggies recently so I am a making one or two areas less comfortable for them as, while I quite like cats (apart from the allergy), I also quite like the birds around here which, compared to the sparrows, blackbirds, pigeons and magpies that were a staple of my back garden when I grew up, are really exotic: robins, blue tits, great tits, a wren or two, thrushes... Garden birds, in fact😄
I have a pepper dust concoction which I was shaking out when the top fell off.
More than half just fell on the floor and scattered beautifully over my sandals.
Not only are the local cats going to keep clear of that end of the house, nobody but nobody is going to go near my feet for a while – as I move through the house even I can sense a hint of nasal heat.