A Fiscal Pipe Problem

A fine sunny day and once again a fun filled morning at the radio station. I was feeling a little tired though from the previous evening at the Inn with Phil quaffing some corpuscular red vino.

Whist in Sittingbourne picked up another copy of Howard Jacobson’s novel “The Finkler Question” from a charity shop, so now I have one copy to read and the other to sell on.

Monday night once again proved to be a good TV watching evening, starting with Eggheads, and then at 8 pm University Challenge, Only Connect and finishing off with New Tricks.

I surprised myself with getting quite a few correct answers on the University Challenge including three of the four paintings which started with a Henry Whistler one and needed with a Van Gogh. I also got all the philosophy ones correct.

And finally a mystery. Yesterday I gave Spot (my cousin) £5.20 to get his bus fare into Sittingbourne and back as he had to get a CV created for him now that he is job hunting. This morning when I came down blurry eyed he quizzed me if I had picked up the money from the nest of tables twixt the two chairs we use to watch television. I obviously hadn’t and he was bemoaning that he would have to walk to Sittingbourne so I gave him another fiver. I was beginning to wonder if he was trying to pull a fast one over me. Perhaps he did pick it up and not consciously knew that he did, or that somehow it has vanished into thin air. I think this is a case for Sherlock Holmes.

Now where is my favourite pipe, Watson.