Last Thursday something went wrong with the lightswitch in the loo. This is rather serious because there is no window in the 'smallest room'.

Bear had a go at mending it while I was out on Friday and I came home to find the whole thing stuck up with great swathes of thick black tape - but, it did work - just.

On Saturday he went to buy a new switch but came back in disgust because a matching one cost 14 euros, so he wouldn't buy it.

Today, after a certain amount of fiddling and swearing we have a grubby, very 'off' white, secondhand switch STUCK on the wall at a very rakish angle.

Forgive me while I scream. . . . . . .