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Team GB up to 5th in the medals league table. Today was an excellent day for medals for GB. Plus the Lowestoft boxer beat the top rated Russian, fantastic!

My latest book "The Tuesday Empire" is in Bookworld. I hope it sells well in Spain, my wife likes to shop in El Corte Ingles, and you know how expensive their products are!!

On the serious side I think the most ignorant people in christendom are Publishers, closely followed by Literary Agents. Return telephone calls? Forget it! Return emails? Forget it! Don't get a chapter of your book finished on deadline date? Ever had your house burnt down?

My 16 years old granddaughter has a new boyfriend. In this day and age you have to carefully vet people, so I asked her to find out if there was any insanity in the family. She came back with, "Unfortunately 'yes'. They live in Ipswich and like the place". Life's a real worry.

We went to a Pueblo restaurant last night. As we were eating my wife asked me, "What's the chicken like?" I replied, "It doesn't like anything, it's dead".

Some years ago there was a cannibal who was seriously effected by British missionaries. On Fridays he would only eat fishermen.

My wife prefers to eat out as much as possible. She's not a terribly good cook. I used to think my mother was a bad cook, but at least her gravy used to move around a bit.

The reason you can't have driving lessons, and receive sex education on the same day in Iran, is because it wears out the camel.