It occurred to me a while go that my watch strap could do with a wash. It’s a woven stainless steel job, and had got rather darker over time. Well, I detached it and soaked it in kitchen degreaser for an hour or two, which resulted in something resembling ox-tail soup. Rinsed in fresh water, it was still looking manky, so I soaked it again overnight in the same product, and came down this morning to an equally unedifying spectacle.
Talking of cleansing, it’s good to see that the establishment is taking some modest steps to clean up the royal family. It would be nice to think (a) that this process would lead to some decent results, and (b) that the manifest opposition to a certain orange tyrant might bring him down, or at least under democratic control.
