Ceridwenscauldron

"Oh look there are ducks on the lawn" says Mab looking out of our lodge window as the rain thundered down all over Cornwall.

"I'm surprised there arn't bloody fish" I replied from the bed "just as well we were going to the Eden Project and not to the beach."

So after knocking up a One Horse Town Omeltte for breakfast we were off and what a fascinating day it was too. It cost £15 to get in and you get to range the two biomes and the gardens for as long as you want. In the Rain Forest Biome there were loads of plants from South America, Africa, Indonesia and tropical islands including lots of spices I wish I could have helped myself to.

The Mediterranean Biome was pretty impressive too with loads of figs, tomatoes, peppers and olives along with more ornamental plants, hmm funny how its all about stuff I can eat with me. Oh yeah there are also some fun art installations and an overpriced organic type cafe where the pasties look as if they have been made from builder's plaster, but the Eden Organic Ale was a quite pleasant pint.

Then there was the Zone - an education centre that looked just like it was designed by a trendy geography teacher from Islington, full of screaming kids what a nightmare!

If you are planning a visit I'd suggest avoiding the school holidays though as the place was rammed with other people's kids

So after a wander round the outdoor gardens we hit the shops - more bedlam we headed off to Tintagel where dodging the rain we enjoyed some great fish and chips in the Crossbow with St Austell Tribute Ale for about £9.50 a head.

Back to the Lodge we turned on the TV only to find that David Cameron was on publicity photoshoot family holiday down the road from us in Padstow. I hope Call me Dave was enjoying the weather, now he can't go to Tuscany anymore without betraying his green PR puffery credentials. Still that's the price you get to pay for wanting to ruin run the country.

According to Metro this morning scientists have just discovered that yawning is not just infectious from person to person and from people to primates but also from people to dogs.

Have they only just noticed this?

Have none of them ever owned a dog?

Or did my grandad never get the scientific credit he deserved when he showed me how to make Jamie yawn back in the late 1960s. I guess it just shows you how the scientific establishment is stacked against a bus driver from Kentish Town and he will never get the acknowledgement for proving that a dog can catch a Spiller's Shape balanced on his nose or that his cat could extract rice pudding from the bottom of a can with his paw either!