I Can't Stop Running
I'm not the most environmentally concerned man in the world, but I do like to keep things relatively in some semblance of a line. I recycle (on the days I can be bothered doing battle with Auckland's notoriously give-a-fuck garbage men), I keep the shower flow well down, I boil only enough water to do me and, if I'm alone, I sometimes even flush only after two pees, but that's between you and me. The one thing I find utterly impossible about the green life, though is switching off the tap when I'm brushing my chops.
I am aware that I'm wasting x amount of litres of clean, precious agua in doing so, but I cannot for the life of me, find it in myself to turn that tap head in a clockwise direction and stem that flow. I've worked at it, believe me. I have stood there in silence, my gob full of white foam, dripping into the sink but it's useless. I'm an impostor in the environmental bathroom when it comes to it. I think it might be to do with my hating small blobs of dried up white dental alabaster be they mine or others. I've also never mastered the art of walking about brushing my teeth. I envy those clean-shirt-fronted bastards that can walk about, carrying on a conversation while scrubbing their ivories. On the odd occasion I've tried it, I've ended up with foaming cascades of bleaching spume all down myself. No, I need to be half cocked over the sink with a spigot flowing to shoo away the stream of white, or else (in my mind) I'd be there half an hour afterwards scrubbing the sink off.

I can almost get away with a trickle but it has to be on.

Give Yourself A Treat
At the end of a working week, as you sit up on the couch watching telly, unwinding, you may hear the distant tinkle of the chimes on you local mash van. Go on, let yourself go, just this once...

"A so-called "mash van" in the UK shows off its new "mash cone" with sausage, mashed potato, gravy and peas in an ice cream cone." From the BBC News website.

In Other News The small town nature of the news here in New Zealand, in general, makes m smile. But this, well, that's total dog and pony show stuff.