The world has lost some great entertainers in the past few days. French actor Philippe Noiret, US jazz singer Anita O'Day, Broadway producer Betty Comden and BBC radio journalist Nick Clarke have all been added to my Celebrity Deaths Archive.

How American do we have to be? I want to wash the car, so I looked up "car wash, Brisbane" in Google and was directed to an Australian-based directory. What greeted me there? The message: "Oops! Did you mean: automobile wash"? No, I meant car wash. I then went to another Australian directory site and, despite the fact that I typed in my Brisbane postcode, the first match it came up with was a business in Melbourne. It's a long way to drive just to get the car washed.
If it weren't for the water restrictions, I'd do it myself!