Top Ten Irrational Fears

(Apologies to Ed Broom)

1. Tinsel - Bundles of soft scalpels if you ask me.
2. Full washing up bowls. Nothing should be out of the water or else what is the point?
3. Railings. They are OK if you don't climb on them but think of the mess!
4. Andrew Marr. Not sure how irrational that is but he becomes more like the Dead Ringers impression every time he is on.
5. Food in the keyboard. It's not too healthy down under these very fingers. I try and tip most of it out. Who eats all this stuff?
6. Dreaming of a crash which then happens. Too serious for you? Don't worry about it.
7. That the entire world will be defined by top-ten lists and no one will be able to think of anything outside hard facts. Self-reference is still the theme of this blog after all. See Orwell's essay on Newspeak, that bit at the back of ninety-eighty-four that you should have read at school but didn't.
8. Mandolins both musical and those for hard-boiled eggs, vegetables etc.
9. Yellow snow.
10. Henry Kissinger.

As you can tell the last few are jokes but there is one serious one which I have got over now (until I think about it tonight) which is trying to see the light in the fridge go off. No really!