Mr & Mrs Noah welcome the advent of heavy machinery as they load the Ark today

Only a thick layer of frog spawn could have made my vapour inhalation more interesting. If I hadn't have poured boiling water on the camomile leaves, stalks and flowers I would have sworn that all sorts of wriggly pondlife was darting around just below my nose. Authentic sometimes isn't all it is cracked up to be. I covered for Ali in the cafe for a couple of hours this morning and then we tried to find a nursery that had been recommended to us. After half an hour of three point turns in steep, narrow, cobbled streets, we gave up. On the way back home we suddenly saw a toy shop that we have been looking for since we got here. Selling genuine Fisher Price, Lego, Weebles etc the shop was a world away from the Chinese Choking Toys sold at the black market. We got Salvador a Fisher Price Noah's Ark for slightly cheaper than we had seen it in Lima but double the price it is in England. His new toy was an instant hit, with Noah himself making a dramatic entrance in a racing car.