overheard at the honey shop

Shopkeeper to customer: "...and it's a great gift for the person who has it all. I mean, they're unlikely to have volcanic honey from Hawaii."

doing nothing

is something I don't seem to be good at any more. That is, I'm extremely good at procrastinating, and frittering away time on the net (my latest thing: listening to back episodes of In Our Time and calling it research), and making up slightly less unpleasant errands, and generally wittering around. I can't do nothing with a clear conscience, because there's always something to do, and it's never the something I am actually doing. The solution, of course, is to either do the something, or do nothing and enjoy it, rather than what I generally end up doing, which is to do not-quite-nothing not quite well and not quite easily.