Things that I have Learned Today

• Library amnesties are love.
• So are libraries now being open on Sunday.
• Greggs's cheese-bacon-and-tomato toasties are delicious.
• Greggs, despite stereotypes, is not frequented solely or even mostly by chavs. While I was having my breakfast there I saw two geeks chatting about some videogames they'd just picked up, a pair of grey-haired folk who looked like somebody's grandparents, several ordinary-looking mothers with children under thirteen or so, a pudgy, long-haired, tattooed middle-aged fellow who rode one of those moped/buggy contraptions for folk who have trouble walking, and an Asian girl of about twelve, alone save for her younger sister, who was terribly overexcited at the fact that the aforementioned middle-aged man had a Mickey Mouse mascot attached to the basket on his buggy. Of course, it might be that the ones up north have a greater proportion of chavs; I reserve judgement.
• Sometimes, people forget to put the jam in jam doughnuts.(On the bright side, though, once I complained about this they were very kind and gave me another doughnut-this one bejammed-free of charge.)
• The church in the square in Huntingdon is not so impressive, inside, as St Neots's, but the people there are generous and you can find some very nice titbits in their booksales. I found a copy of The Neverending Story for 50p.
• The people at the church also agree that while Oliver Cromwell may be their one claim to fame(christened in their font as an infant)he was also an idiot, and that when Christians ban Christmas things have come to a pretty pass.
• Despite flunking Systems and Control Technology, I am able to figure out how to collapse and put up a scooter in a few minutes, despite never having owned one since I was eight.(I discovered this while waiting for the library to open; there were three small girls with one scooter between them, which they were having serious problems with. First they needed it collapsed and couldn't figure out how, then once it was collapsed they wanted it up again and couldn't figure out how to do that...I offered to help on the offchance that all it needed was stronger muscles than those of a twelve-year-old. But it turned out to simply be a matter of understanding mechanics.)