Sunday Supplement

There's nothing like coming back from a holiday to some interesting post and - in our case this week - that included some interesting locations chosen by the courier. A lovely box of chocolate goodies courtesy of Green & Blacks (my wife has already opened it and earmarked what she's having) was waiting in the back garden on a bench. Thankfully the sun hadn't melted it. Or maybe there hadn't been any sun while we were away? 

Either way, it seems to have reached us in pristine condition, as has an opportunity to review the new Colgate Proclinical A1500 - appropriate after eating chocolate as the 'first electric toothbrush that automatically adjusts' to different speeds and cleaning actions also delivers an amazing 32,500 sonic strokes per minute which seems almost guaranteed to get your teeth and gums deep clean. 

Back in the garden after brushing our teeth, we notice our recently planted tomato seeds have sprouted. We'll soon be growing our own tomato ketchup as promised by Heinz - and so can you if you pop over to their Facebook page as they're still giving packets of seeds away. But hurry! You've only got until this coming Wednesday.

The thing about going away is that it can inspire you, when you return, to refresh something in the ol' domicile along the lines of what you've seen while out-and-about. And, in timely fashion, Moneysupermarket.com has issued a challenge to see what I can do to improve a room on a tight budget.  'Room for Improvement' is a campaign they're running to see how creative we as a nation can be. Ad the closing date for entries is... tomorrow, so I'm really going to have to be creative. And quick. So watch this space...