Mon, Aug 25th

It was a bank holiday here in England today, and I had planned to finally paint the spare room. However, we really needed a new vacuum cleaner, so I suggested that we pop into Welwyn and pick one up. Dawn didn't object. Especially when I suggested that we use the tax refund that good old George Bush had given us. We also picked up a couple of other odds and ends while we were at John Lewis. Best of all was that it never cost us a penny. We covered the cost of all our expenditures with the money Uncle Sam had sent.

Back home, Dawn continued to swat on her driving test stuff before watching the successful British Olympians arrive home from Beijing in a jumbo jet donned with a gold-coloured nose especially for Team GB.