Holiday practices. Holidays' end!

My son has been explaining how AirB'n'B works. Sounds okay. I was told that the name comes from the person who came up with the idea, in California, I think. Apparently there was a conference going on in LA or somewhere and some people had difficulty finding hotel accommodation, so this chap offered them an airbed on his floor. The next time it happened, they needed even more accommodation and he advertised for people willing to help out, for a small fee. And so airbed and breakfast came about. And the rest is (recent) history. That's the story I was told anyway.

My son and his family have used AirB&B successfully a number of times and he clearly thinks we should give it a go.

One reason for opting for AirB&B might be this gruesome story I came across:

"Experts are warning people not to boil their underwear in hotel kettles in case it spreads potentially deadly toxins. It's a revelation that’s bound to have you regretting every cup of tea you’ve ever had in a hotel room; the act of underwear-boiling is apparently a practice that exists. Highlighted by Gizmodo, who spotted someone asking on Twitter, “Real question: does anyone I know clean their underwear in a kettle while travelling?”
Evidence of people using hotel kettles to boil their unmentionables has, worryingly, also been spotted on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
And, while the theory behind it might seem, kind of, logical, one expert has warned that it's “super, super, super, super gross", particularly for anyone who used the kettle for a cup of tea afterwards.
Dr Heather Hendrickson, a senior lecturer in molecular biosciences at the Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Auckland, says there are some bacteria that are resistant to high temperatures and could be damaging to people's health should they come in contact with them.  “These don't cause sickness if they are consumed, but their presence in certain environments can encourage them to produce a toxin that can be deadly,” she said. “Who knows how long that water, with nutrients that have been introduced and then sterilised, sits around in the kettle before someone else uses it?” Hendrickson continued, calling the act “unbelievably irresponsible.”  The fact that hotel kettles are communal and by no means industrial-strength cleaning facilities means that there are just too many unknowns to encourage blanching your underwear in this way. " 

All I can say is YUCK!!! Do people really do such things?

The holiday season is coming to an end. Some parts of the country had a very warm snd sunny Bank Holiday yesterday. Even here it was fine and warm. Some more sunshine would have been even better. Today, however, I ran in the drizzle, which has fortunately stopped since then.

I am not complaining about the weather we experience, considering the horrors of extreme weather over in Texas. 22 inches of rain in 24 hours and another 20 inches expected before the weekend. That's their summer coning to a completely bad end.

The forces of nature are amazingly strong and very hard to combat.