Domestic minutiae.

• I'm glad that's been cleared up, then.

• "American Christianity", considered as a religion entirely distinct from actual Christianity — not a variant, but completely unrelated — but with some of the same words.

Someone called the house claiming to be "Claire Wheaton" from "Morgan Banks" following up a call to me about public sector employment "the other day" and demanding my date of birth, nationality and ethnicity from redcountess. I can't actually find a UK recruiter called Morgan Banks or a combination thereof at all (though I've found the Australian one). What the hell? Pointers welcomed.

Liz and arkady are heroic geniuses and put a holding deposit on the house we really want. Will be available early September, which should give us a just about two weeks' overlap. Fingers crossed!

Liz is doing enormously better of late on the low GI diet, having managed to (a) go out and look at a house (b) go down the pub with Arkady afterwards (c) survive a pub lunch and a luvverly luvverly gin and tonic (d) visit the doctor after that. And is losing weight fast as well as gaining energy. This is utterly wonderful and I am enormously proud of her.

eyeliner297 visited last night and we had a large pile of chili beans. And I nagged her to get her copiously fucked-up ankle seen to. If others could as well, up to and including carting her off bodily, please do.

This morning I finally got to Wimbledon to get my Victorian driver's licence exchanged for a UK one. Should be three to five weeks. Driving to Octiber Whitby.