1. Quick! before my daily life plunges back into autumn, work and all things grim, I am trying to develop an addiction to yoga. More precisely Bikram - the kind where they cook you for 90 minutes. Logically, I should come out of there looking and feeling like a limp leek, but no!

2. J, the Scot who can't function above 22°C, now joins me in this communal sweating, muscle-stretching venture.

3. Today our teacher is Francesca.
'I think she explains stuff really well' J declares, 'but my judgement may be biased since she is a total dream.'
How so? I ask, still in a daze myself.
'As soon as she walks into the studio, I hear the last movement of Tchaikovksy's Symphony No. 6.'

4. Fine; for the time being, this, with or without Tchaikovksy, will have to make up for our respective lack of a sex life, then.

September jigsaw.

1. Bloglanders, let's quote a TV character, why the hell not : Sexuality is fluid, whether you're gay or you're straight or you're bisexual, you just go with the flow. How do you like that my cultural references are US TV series about lesbians?*

2. ' Actually', I said, (defiantly?) pouring tempranillo into my glass: 'I haven't had sex with a man in over ten years and didn't think I would ever again'.
'Ok', he replied, smiling only a little. Then we finished the wine.

3. I thought : as much as I like this person, what if.. he turns out to be, I don't know.. a man? What I just don't feel anything, don't know what to do, get bored? What if?

4. Blogfolks, I was wrong, and that worried voice should have just shut the hell up, and gone with that flow..

5. A holiday lover, hurrah! Can't get him out of my head, boo!

6. When a friend recommends a work of fiction of a pornographic nature, said work of fiction should not be read on long, solitary train journeys, especially when your hornymeter is cranked up to the max and said holiday lover on a plane to California.

I missed you, bloglanders! Next time I'll tell you about why everyone should do Bikram yoga, if only because it's full of seriously hot people. Be well!

* Personally, I'm being extremely impressed.